A $160 million Series C funding round which brought the total funds raised to nearly half a billion dollars was completed by online used-car startup Carvana, known for delivering vehicles through vending machines. The company made this announcement. While declining to part with much of the investor details, along with existing and new investors, the…
This has significant cost cutting benefits for research studies. In a development that could make research less expensive in the future, a team at Microsoft Research figured out how to share encrypted data that’s stored in the cloud without compromising security. “Machine learning algorithms may examine our genomes to determine our susceptibility to maladies such as heart…
4 times bigger than the offerings of its competitor, Seagate’s drive will be officially launched sometime later in 2017. Seagate has announced the launch of its 60TB SSD, which is the world’s largest to date. Before you launch another tab and go hunting for it in order to snag one, do note that it’s available…
The intrusion occurred through Micros – Oracle portal for processing credit cards. Companies such as Adidas, Burger King & Hilton could be affected due to this breach. Hackers need not always hack into a company directly to access its customer’s credit card details. A roundabout route can often lead to direct access. Although this appears…
All it takes for you to be vulnerable is to install an app that does not even ask for any permission. Download Checkpoint’s app from the Google Store to check your device’s vulnerability to this exploit. If you are using an Android smartphone, it’s very likely that it’s powered by a Qualcomm. Checkpoint Security has…
Orkut Büyükkökten of Orkut’s fame launches Hello: a social network in which you share your personality. Although Google eased out axed Orkut a couple of years go, the drive for creating a social networking is very much alive and kicking. In fact, it just made its presence felt: it just launched Hello, a social networking…
Ever since Amazon opened up Alexa to device makers and developers, this is the first touchscreen enabled gadget to hit the market which houses Alexa. For those who are in the market for a tablet or an intercom, you may want to check out Nucleus. As you may have guessed, it’s a touchscreen device that…
Stay glued to its Developer Forum which is set to take place in San Francisco from August 16-18. Dimitri Diakopoulos, a researcher at Intel has displayed a rather interest depth sensing camera that can be attached to HTC’s Vive headset. “I felt that VR needed a solid unicorn peripheral with six additional cameras,” tweeted Diakopoulos.…
In a service that is supposedly secure, it certainly is very fishy when hackers are able to compromise its API and gain access to secured content. Although Telegram prides itself in being ultra-secure, in a twist of fate, the private messaging service is finding itself on the short end of the rope as hackers have…
The future of home sharing is in creating spaces and things that are worth renting out. It would appear Airbnb has realized that playing an advisory role and shaping city policies is not good enough for the company, is has thus, wrapped up its sleeves and is in the process of shaping the very…
