Technology

Toku CEO and co-founder Ehsan Vaghefi’s father was blind from congenital glaucoma at age four. Due to this, his father was active with the Iranian Blind Foundation. Vaghefi says most of his childhood pals were blind or had blind parents. Vaghefi considered becoming a physician to aid people like his …

Several internet investors have backed a new firm that uses open source projects and knowledge management to target the lucrative office productivity market. Famous founders Matt Mullenweg (Automattic), Steve Chen (YouTube), Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub), Bob Young (Red Hat), and Amr Awadallah (Cloudera) have invested $6.4 million in AppFlowy. OSS Capital …

Tinder is improving its profile pages to provide more information and spark conversations. Profile quizzes, discussion starters, basic info tags, and dark mode are new features. Examine these new features in depth. The Match-group-owned app is adding profile prompts for questions like “The key to my heart is,” “The first …

Virgin Pulse’s healthcare platform, Welltok’s file transfer tool, was hacked to steal over a million people’s personal data. Welltok, a Denver-based patient engagement company that works with healthcare plans to communicate with subscribers, informed Maine’s attorney general last week that hackers stole more than 1.6 million people’s sensitive data. Welltok …

According to a regulatory filing, cybersecurity startup-focused venture capital firm Ballistic Ventures is seeking $300 million for a new fund. Over a year after launching its first fund in May 2022, a San Francisco VC firm filed with the SEC on Wednesday to raise $300 million for its second fund. …

Apple announced Thursday that it will add RCS support to iOS next year, resolving the widespread issue of text messaging compatibility between iPhones and Android smartphones but not eliminating the “green bubble” dread. Critics have long argued that Apple’s refusal to support RCS has fragmented messaging ecosystems, particularly for Android …

“Avengers” director Joe Russo and I are increasingly convinced that fully AI-generated movies and TV shows are possible in our lifetimes. In recent months, OpenAI’s ultra-realistic text-to-speech engine has shown glimpses of this brave new frontier. As for me, Meta’s announcement today brought our AI-generated content future into sharp relief. …

The state of Maine confirmed that a Russia-linked ransomware gang stole over a million people’s personal data earlier this year. Hackers exploited a vulnerability in Maine’s MOVEit file-transfer system, which stored sensitive resident data, the state said Thursday. The statement said hackers downloaded state agency files between May 28 and …

Bose was the answer to the question “What headphones should I buy for a flight?” for years. The QuietComfort line was known for blocking plane noise on long flights. Apple and Sony have risen to the top of the category in recent years, making the question harder to answer. In …

Microsoft wants to give a few startups free Azure cloud “supercomputing” resources to develop AI models during an AI chip shortage. Microsoft added a free Azure AI infrastructure option for “high-end,” Nvidia-based GPU virtual machine clusters to train and run generative models, including large language models like ChatGPT, to its …