An inside look at Rivian’s EV ambitions from AI batteries to electric jet skis
For a CEO who insists his electric vehicle startup doesn’t want to be Tesla, Rivian founder RJ Scaringe can sound a lot like Elon Musk. Just...
WhatsApp has an encrypted child porn problem
WhatsApp chat groups are being used to spread illegal child pornography, cloaked by the app’s end-to-end encryption. Without the necessary number of human moderators, the disturbing...
App downloads across iOS & Google Play up 10% to 113B in 2018, consumer spend tops $76B
The app economy is continuing to grow, both in terms of app downloads and consumer spending. According to preliminary year-end data shared by App Annie, it’s...
FBI kicks some of the worst ‘DDoS for hire’ sites off the internet
The FBI has seized the domains of 15 high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) websites after a coordinated effort by law enforcement and several tech companies. Several seizure...
Australian Court Orders ISPs to Block 181 ‘Pirate’ Domains, Including Subtitle Sites
Copyright holders are increasingly demanding that ISPs should block access to pirate sites in order to protect their business. This is also the case in Australia,...
Firefox Focus adds support for enhanced tracking protection and Google’s Safe Browsing service
Firefox Focus for Android and iOS is Mozilla’s privacy-centric mobile browser. Today, the organization stepped up this promise of keeping its users’ data private by adding...
A “First Step” towards criminal justice reform
For the first time in 22 years, Alice Johnson will be home for the holidays. Now a great-grandmother, Johnson was sentenced to life in prison without...
The Best Gifts For Avid Readers And Book Worms
When you need a gift for the book lover in your life, it’s tempting to buy them a bunch of books, but there are plenty of...
You Won’t Lose Any Sleep Over the $10 You Spend on These Melatonin Gummies
If the daily stressors of life (or just the stress of the holidays) have you tossing and turning all night, give melatonin gummies a whirl. These...
Ask Yourself These Simple Questions to Find Out What You Want in the New Year
With the holidays just around the corner, now is as good a time as ever to take stock of things and figure out what you really...
