Technology

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft, named for an early human ancestor whose skeleton provided insights into our species’ muddled origins, has begun the first leg of its 12-year journey. Lifting off from Cape Canaveral early Saturday morning on an Atlas V rocket, Lucy is headed to study asteroids in an area around […]

The operators behind the pernicious TrickBot malware have resurfaced with new tricks that aim to increase its foothold by expanding its distribution channels, ultimately leading to the deployment of ransomware such as Conti. The threat actor, tracked under the monikers ITG23 and Wizard Spider, has been found to partner with […]

FinSMEs: Convex, which provides software for the commercial services industry, raises a $39M Series B, bringing its total raised to $60M  —  Convex, a San Francisco, CA-based software platform focused on digitizing the commercial services industry, raised $39m in Series B financing.

In this day and age, virtual assistants have become one of the staples of the increasingly digital business world. The outbreak of COVID-19 only sped up their rise to prominence. As a result, most companies around the world had to shift their operations online. In such a situation, most of […]

The last 20 months turned every dog into an amateur epidemiologist and statistician. Meanwhile, a group of bona fide epidemiologists and statisticians came to believe that pandemic problems might be more effectively solved by adopting the mindset of an engineer: that is, focusing on pragmatic problem-solving with an iterative, adaptive […]

The developer of Dying Light is currently working on a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S upgrade for the zombie parkour game. Techland’s announcement comes a little while after it shared the news that Dying Light 2 has been delayed by two months. This was the game’s second official delay, with its lead developer […]

Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: Expensify files for an IPO, and reports net income of $15M on revenue of $65M in H1 2021, up from $3.5M on revenue of $41M in H1 2020  —  Expensify Inc. filed for an initial public offering, disclosing growing revenue and income.  —  The maker of […]

The Acer Predator Triton 500 SE is a gaming laptop featuring a fast 16-inch display and some fast components.

Coding boot camps have soared in popularity since their inception in the early 2010s. Course Report, an organization that conducts yearly market studies on boot camps, reports that nearly 25,000 coding boot camp graduates entered the job market in 2020 — up 39% from the previous year. With the growth in popularity, however, has […]

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