Spanish Court Throws Out Copyright Trolling Case
Spanish ISP Euskaltel is one of the few ISPs in the world to be putting up a fight against so-called copyright trolls. These mostly movie-related companies...
Africa Roundup: Yamaha backs MAX, Founders Factory and Norrsken support startups, inside Ethiopia’s tech scene
Competition in Africa’s two-wheel ride-hail market is accelerating. Nigerian motorcycle transit startup MAX.ng was the latest startup to add funding, raising a $7 million funding round...
Ola Electric becomes India’s newest unicorn with new $250 million investment from SoftBank
India’s Ola is further widening its lead over Uber in the nation — and getting the help it needs from their mutual investor. Ola Electric has...
Geek Trivia: Throughout The City Of Los Angeles, Hollow Shell Buildings Conceal What?
Throughout The City Of Los Angeles, Hollow Shell Buildings Conceal What? Oil Rigs Service Tunnel Entrances Cold War Rocket Silos Telescopes Think you know the answer?...
Elon Musk’s Boring Company is cranking up its hiring machine
Elon Musk’s tunneling and transportation startup The Boring Company is ramping up hiring about six weeks after landing a $48.7 million commercial contract to build and...
Twitter Racist Who Allegedly Sent Death Threats to Muslim Lawyer Now Facing Federal Charges
After allegedly sending a death threat to a Muslim lawyer on Twitter last year, a North Carolina man is facing federal felony charges of issuing a...
Equinix and Singapore’s GIC will launch a $1 billion joint venture to build hyperscale data centers in Europe
Equinix, one of the world’s largest data center companies, announced that it will form a $1 billion joint venture with GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund. The...
Florida City Fires IT Employee After Paying $460,000 Bitcoin Ransom to Hackers
Lake City, Florida paid out a bitcoin ransom worth $460,000 to hackers who disabled the city’s computer systems with sophisticated ransomware last month, hot on the...
Virginia’s Anti-Revenge Porn Law Now Covers Deepfakes and Other ‘Falsely Created’ Content
A update to Virginia’s law against revenge porn banning the distribution of explicit videos and images that have been deepfaked—i.e., modified using machine learning algorithms to...
Samsung will announce the next Galaxy Note on August 7
It’s official. Samsung just sent out invites for the next Unpacked event. The big show kicks off at 4PM ET August 7, right here in New...
