When the energy company that supplies Houston with power couldn’t keep up with its outage map following Hurricane Beryl’s Monday landfall, some residents checked area outages through a different Texas institution instead: Whataburger.
The regional fast-food giant’s app, which provides a map showing whether locations were open and operating, has proven to be a surprisingly accurate metric for
DoorDash said Tuesday that it’s stepping up efforts to identify dangerous delivery drivers and remove them from its platform after a
As the number of high-profile data breaches continues to grow, it’s getting harder and harder to keep track of how widely your personal information is spreading on the dark web, the shadowy corners of the Internet known for illicit activities.
Google, though, is giving people a new line of defense. The company has announced it will offer free dark web monitoring to all consumer account holders starting at the end of this month. That will help consumers learn if details like their a
Donald Trump’s animosity toward Mark Zuckerberg is getting even more heated. In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, the former president threatened to put “election fraudsters” in jail, name checking the Meta founder in the process.
“All I can say is that if I’m elected President, we will pursue Election Fraudsters at levels never seen before, and they will be sent to prison for long periods of time,” Trump
Evolve Bank & Trust said this week that hackers accessed millions of customers’ personal data during a recent cyberattack.
The Memphis-based lender said in a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Monday that more than 7.6 million people we
Investors bet $24 billion on AI companies during the second quarter, new Crunchbase data shows, doubling the amount invested in the burgeoning space in the first quarter. AI investments represented 30% of the total dollars invested in the quarter.
AI attracted more investment than all other sectors for the first time since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, Crunchbase finds.
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Efficiently making your way around a national capital during the Olympics could be an Olympic sport in its own right.
Uber’s plan to avoid losing that game in Paris starts with a feature that gives drivers the ability to report crashes and traffic so that others don’t also find themselves (and their passengers) in the same stream of brake lights.
In the U.S.,
Etsy is adding news tags to products to further clarify a seller’s role in the creation process.
The online marketplace is requiring all items to be listed as either “made by a seller,” “designed by a seller,” “sourced by a seller,” or “handpicked by a seller.” For example, a seller who finds vintage shirts would fall under the “handpicked” umbrella, while a ceramic vase from a pottery studio would be listed und
Technology companies, especially small ones, have often had difficulty selling their wares to the Pentagon thanks to bureaucratic red tape and excruciatingly slow sales cycles. And the U.S. greatly needs to work with the tech sector in order to stay competitive in a world of increasingly high-tech (and AI-powered) weapons systems.
But over the past year a narrative has develop
If space systems such as GPS were hacked and knocked offline, much of the world would instantly be returned to the communications and navigation technologies of the 1950s. Yet space cybersecurity is largely invisible to the public at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions.