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North Korea skirts US sanctions by secretly selling software around the globe
Sep 15, 1:29AM
Fake social media profiles are useful for more than just sowing political discord among foreign adversaries, as it turns out. A group linked to the North Korean government has been able to duck existing sanctions on the country by concealing its true identity and developing software for clients abroad. This week, the US Treasury issued […]
This is how much VCs are paid
Sep 15, 12:17AM
Venture capital is known for being an opaque industry, so it's no surprise most of us have no idea what the average VC earns in a year.
NASA's climate-monitoring space laser is the last to ride to space on a Delta II rocket
Sep 14, 11:32PM
This weekend, NASA is launching a new, high-tech satellite to monitor the planet's glacier and sea ice levels — with space lasers, naturally. ICESat-2 will be a huge boon for climatologists, and it's also a bittersweet occasion: it will be the final launch aboard the trusty Delta II rocket, which has been putting birds in the air for nearly 30 years.
Inside Planet Labs' new satellite manufacturing site
Sep 14, 11:19PM
Satellite imaging and analytics company Planet is taking the wraps off its new manufacturing space in San Francisco. Founded by ex-NASA employees, Planet is leveraging some of the $183 million in funding it’s amassed to expand. In the basement of a nondescript office building in the middle of Harrison Street in San Francisco, Planet is […]
Three years later, Let's Encrypt has issued over 380 million HTTPS certificates
Sep 14, 9:48PM
Bon anniversaire, Let’s Encrypt! The free-to-use nonprofit was founded in 2014 in part by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and is backed by Akamai, Google, Facebook, Mozilla and more. Three years ago Friday, it issued its first certificate. Since then, the numbers have exploded. To date, more than 380 million certificates have been issued on 129 million unique […]
California is 'launching our own damn satellite' to track pollution, with help from Planet
Sep 14, 9:44PM
California plans to launch a satellite to monitor pollution in the state and contribute to climate science, Governor Jerry Brown announced today. The state is partnering with satellite imagery purveyor Planet to create a custom craft to "pinpoint – and stop – destructive emissions with unprecedented precision, on a scale that's never been done before."
Senator claps back after Ajit Pai calls California's net neutrality bill 'radical' and 'illegal'
Sep 14, 9:18PM
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has provoked a senatorial response from California after calling the "nanny state's" new net neutrality legislation "radical," "anti-consumer," "illegal," and "burdensome." Senator Scott Wiener (D-CA), in response, said Pai has "abdicated his responsibility to ensure an open internet" and that the FCC lacks the authority to intervene.
Twitch updates security for its TwitchCon event following the Jacksonville esports shooting
Sep 14, 8:00PM
Twitch is today announcing changes to its security procedures for its TwitchCon event taking place in San Jose, California on October 26-28. The update follows news of the tragic shooting at an esports event in Jacksonville, Florida last month where three people died, including the shooter, and 11 were injured. Twitch said it would review its […]
UK warns of satellite and space program problems in case of Brexit 'no deal'
Sep 14, 6:52PM
The U.K. government says that access to satellites and space surveillance programs will suffer in the event of a “no deal” departure from the European Union . Britain has less than six months to go before the country leaves the 28-member state bloc, after a little over half the country voted to withdraw membership from […]
ChargePoint is adding 2.5M electric vehicle chargers over the next 7 years
Sep 14, 6:44PM
Electric vehicles still make up just a fraction of the cars, trucks and SUVs on the road today. But that’s changing: The number of electric and plug-in hybrid cars on the world’s roads exceeded 3 million in 2017. By 2025, there are expected to be 20 million electric vehicles in just North America and Europe. […]
The new iPhone's here, so Google wants to talk Pixel 3
Sep 14, 6:31PM
In the off-chance you haven't already had your fill of phone news for the week, Google just offered up a few friendly reminders that it's got its own handset coming out in the not so distant future. The company's event isn't happening until early next month, but Google's started with the teasers. Here’s a site […]
The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it's dead
Sep 14, 6:29PM
I only wanted one thing out of 2018's iPhone event: a new iPhone SE. In failing to provide it Apple seems to have quietly put the model out to pasture — and for this I curse them eternally. Because it was the best phone the company ever made.
Drone startup Airware crashes, will shut down after burning $118M
Sep 14, 6:22PM
Drone operating system startup Airware today suddenly informed employees it will cease operations immediately despite having raised $118 million from top investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Google’s GV, and Kleiner Perkins. The startup ran out of money after trying to manufacture its own hardware that couldn’t compete with drone giants like China’s DJI. The company at […]
SpaceX announces plan to announce plan to send someone around the moon in planned spaceship
Sep 14, 5:48PM
It’s been too long without any kind of outlandish news from any of Elon Musk’s companies, but SpaceX has filled the void with the announcement of a newly redesigned BFR spacecraft and the news that it will fly around the moon with a soon-to-be-named first passenger. Whenever they get around to actually engineering and building […]
Mobile bank Chime picks up credit score improvement service Pinch in all-stock deal
Sep 14, 5:03PM
Chime, the no-fees mobile bank valued at $500 million as of its last round, has put some of its funds to use with its first acquisition. The deal is for Pinch, a startup that was focused on helping millennials and other young adults build better credit. It was best known for a service called PinchRent, […]
DC Comics' streaming service launches tomorrow
Sep 14, 3:57PM
Tomorrow is apparently Batman Day. That mostly means promotions from the folks at DC Entertainment and the long-awaited launch of the company's DC Universe streaming service. If nothing else, the site is an interesting mix of multimedia content in a world of video-only sites, including original series, older content and digital comics. Users who signed […]
Mary Meeker, author of the Internet Trends Report, is leaving Kleiner Perkins
Sep 14, 3:51PM
Mary Meeker is leaving Kleiner Perkins to build a new fund and she's taking the firm's growth team with her, as first reported by Recode. Meeker, widely known for her annual Internet Trends Report, joined the firm in 2010 after two decades as a managing director at Morgan Stanley. She was well-established as a tech analyst on Wall Street. In Silicon Valley, she quickly built a reputation as one of the best.
Cryptocurrency mining attacks using leaked NSA hacking tools are still highly active a year later
Sep 14, 3:30PM
It’s been over a year since highly classified exploits built by the National Security Agency were stolen and published online. One of the tools, dubbed EternalBlue, can covertly break into almost any Windows machine around the world. It didn’t take long for hackers to start using the exploits to run ransomware on thousands of computers, […]
Kegel trainer startup Elvie is launching a smaller, smarter, hands-free breast pump
Sep 14, 3:00PM
Elvie, a London-based startup known best for its connected Kegel trainer, is jumping into the breast pump business with a new $480 hands-free system you can slip into your bra. Even with all the innovation in baby gear, breast pumps have mostly sucked (pun intended) for new moms for the past half a century. My […]
Lyft hires yet another ex-Tesla employee
Sep 14, 3:00PM
Lyft is on a bit of a Tesla poaching spree while Tesla employees are exiting in droves. The latest ex-Tesla employee to join Lyft is Cal Lankton, who most recently led the development of Tesla’s electric vehicle charging network up until May. At Lyft, Lankton will serve as VP of infrastructure operations where he will […]
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