Imagine opening your front door wide and inviting the world to listen in on your most private conversations. Unthinkable, right? Yet, in the digital realm, people inadvertently leave doors ajar, potentially allowing hackers, tech companies, service providers, and security agencies to peek into their private communications.
Much depends on the applications you use and the encryption standards the apps uphold. End-to-end encryption is a digital safeguard for online interactions. Itȁ
The Future Today Institute has released its 17th Annual Tech Trends Report, a report on the future across 16 industries and sectors and following 900 trends. The theme of this year’s report is the super cycle, which, in general, is an extended period of booming demand that leads to elevated prices at unprecedented heights. A super cycle can last years or even decades, and leads to or is driven by structural change in the economy.
Fast Company‘s editor-in-chief Brendan
Federal prosecutors asked a New York judge on Friday to sentence FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to between 40 and 50 years in prison for cryptocurrency crimes they described as a “historic fraud.”
Prosecutors made the request as they submitted their presentence recommendations to a federal judge who will sentence a man who at one time dazzled the cryptocurrency world with his promotional skills, including his access to famous people willing to promote his businesses.
A little under a year ago, it looked like Venus was off the table for NASA. President Biden’s budget request for 2024 severely reduced funding for the mission, putting it in a “deep freeze.” Today, though, the space agency is once again all systems go for an exploration of one of earth’s closest neighbors.
The VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) mission is back on the schedule, with only a slight delay, the resul
When you’re the CEO of a multibillion-dollar corporation, your words have weight. As Apple chief executive Tim Cook just found out, they can also have a price—$61 million per word, to be exact.
Six years after Cook made comments that a class-action lawsuit alleged were misleading, the tech company reached a $490 million settlement to put the matter to bed this week. The lawsuit claimed Cook concealed falling demand for iPhones in China, and that the misrepresentations
It’s been another wild few weeks for crypto as Bitcoin rocketed to new highs thanks in large part to Bitcoin ETFs getting the green light from regulators. Even now, after the rally cooled off a bit, prices remain far higher than they did last month. And yet, despite the crypto market’s current upswing, major questions remain: Namely, whether crypto is actually a safer alternative to fiat currency, and what effective government regulation might actually look like.
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If you’ve been online at all this month you’ve probably come across at least one conspiracy theory about princess Kate Middleton’s whereabouts.
They range from brilliantly nonsensical (that she’s been filming for the reality singing competition The Masked Singer), to wildly elaborate (that she’s quietly donated an organ to King Charles), to hair-raising (that Prince Williams is somehow involved in some sort of foul play).
The Prince
Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour.Lyft called the ordinance “deeply flawed,” saying in a statement that it supports a minimum earning standard for drivers but not the one passed by the council.“It should be done in an honest way that keeps the service
On Monday, Oracle Corp. announced its quarterly earnings, together with substantial financial information about its operations, via a conference call and live webcast. This earnings announcement resulted in an almost 12% increase in the company’s stock price the following day, with the corporation’s stock price closing at a record high in part due to increased demand for services underpinning widespread use of artificial intelligence.
Corporate financial information is
When Facebook head Tom Alison announced at a conference earlier this month that Meta would be using AI to overhaul its video recommendation system across its platforms, the news didn’t exactly light the world on fire. The company already uses different recommendation models for videos on each of its services; now it plans to bring them all under one roof. “If we get this right, not only will the recommendations be kind of more engaging and more relevant,” Alison said at t