PayU’s LazyPay is among the apps that India’s IT Ministry has blocked in the ongoing crackdown as New Delhi moves to curb the misuse of consumers’ data and protect the nation’s integrity.
The LazyPay website has been blocked by...
Over his two decades of experience in the tech industry, CodiumAI co-founder and CEO Itmar Friedman has personally experienced the pain of building test suites to check his code logic. He found that while there are tools to...
Taiwanese automotive conglomerate Hotai Motor exposed reams of personal customer data from its car rental and carshare unit, iRent, until a security researcher found the data online last week.
Even then, it took the company a week — and...
We’ll be straight with you. There’s no 1:1 Twitter replacement — not yet, and possibly not ever.
Still, there are plenty of social apps that might be worth substituting into your obsessive timeline-checking routines if you’re done with Twitter...
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In this issue:
Artificial gravity space station startup Vast makes its first acquisition
Relativity Space sets a...
Rad Power Bikes is focused on popularizing electric utility bikes for the consumer market. The company launched its next generation RadRunner 3 Plus e-bike Wednesday alongside a host of new cargo accessories that will make it easier for...
The fallout from Fortra’s mass ransomware attack continues to widen as the hackers claim a new victim: a children’s virtual mental health care startup.
In a data breach disclosure filed with the Maine attorney general’s office, U.S. healthcare giant...
Tracksuit, a New Zealand-based brand tracking startup, wants to take on traditional market research players by offering a more affordable, accessible brand insights tool.
“Market research and brand tracking has been around for a long time, and it usually...
Fintech startup Plum is doubling the number of countries where it operates. The company is launching its product in five new European countries — Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands, Greece and Cyprus.
Originally from the U.K., Plum is a money...
Superstrata’s e-bike is a strange specimen — there’s no two ways about it.
In some ways that makes sense; the bike’s concept, borne out in seamless 3D-printed carbon fiber, springs from an equally strange premise. We’ll get into that.
Talking...
Google has taken down hundreds of loan apps from the Play Store in Kenya since its new policy, which requires digital lenders in the East African country to submit proof of license, went into effect in January.
The policy...
In another flip-flop move, Twitter says that it will now remember the feed — the algorithmic “For You” or chronological “Following” — its users have chosen on the web. This change will give relief to many who had...
Remember poring over reviews on Rate My Professors to find out which prof is good-looking and who gives easy As? The professor and class ratings site is one of the few web 1.0 sites that are still well...
At a Microsoft press event today where the company demonstrated its new A.I.-powered search capabilities in Bing, the company also announced a new version of its Edge web browser that includes A.I. technologies built-in. With the new browser,...
One of the more interesting, but seemingly academic, concerns of the new era of AI sucking up everything on the web was that AIs will eventually start to absorb other AI-generated content and regurgitate it in a self-reinforcing...
Cambly was founded in 2012, and has since raised $80.29m from leading venture capital firms. Success didn’t come overnight. The company had to weather a failed fundraise and countless competitors on its way to becoming a market leader.
I...