Category Archives: Tech News

Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social network coming in Nov. to "stand up" to Big Tech, in the App Store for preorder (ABC News)

ABC News: Trump announces the Trump Media & Technology Group and TRUTH Social, a social [...]

21
Oct
Source: Facebook is planning to change its company name to reflect its focus on the metaverse as soon as next week at Connect, its annual AR/VR conference (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Alex Heath / The Verge: Source: Facebook is planning to change its company name to [...]

20
Oct
NSA, CISA, and FBI say that ransomware group BlackMatter is attacking critical US infrastructure, including the food sector, demanding $80K-$15M in crypto (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

Tim Starks / CyberScoop: NSA, CISA, and FBI say that ransomware group BlackMatter is attacking [...]

19
Oct
How the tech used to make giant, ultrahigh-precision mirrors and lenses for the James Webb Space Telescope was repurposed to develop displays for mobile devices (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: How the tech used to make giant, ultrahigh-precision mirrors [...]

18
Oct
Convex, which provides software for the commercial services industry, raises a $39M Series B, bringing its total raised to $60M (FinSMEs)

FinSMEs: Convex, which provides software for the commercial services industry, raises a $39M Series B, [...]

17
Oct
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 (Crystal Tse/Bloomberg)

Crystal Tse / Bloomberg: Expensify files for an IPO, and reports net income of $15M [...]

16
Oct
Reliable Robotics, which aims to replace pilots with robots on commercial cargo planes, raises a $100M Series C led by Coatue Management (Haje Jan Kamps/TechCrunch)

Google rolls out continuous scrolling for English-language mobile search results in the US  —  Google [...]

15
Oct
TikTok now lets LIVE creators mute specific viewers for up to an entire livestream, and says it removed 81M+ videos that violated its TOS in Q2 (Andrew Hutchinson/Social Media Today)

Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today: TikTok now lets LIVE creators mute specific viewers for [...]

14
Oct
ReshaMandi, an online B2B marketplace focused on silk products in India, raises a $30M Series A, a mix of equity and debt, led by Creation Investments (The Economic Times)

The Economic Times: ReshaMandi, an online B2B marketplace focused on silk products in India, raises [...]

13
Oct
Microsoft makes a preview version of Windows Subsystem for Linux for Windows 11 available in the Microsoft Store, decoupling the app from the Windows image (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft makes a preview version of Windows Subsystem for Linux [...]

12
Oct