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UK’s Space Forge debuts new reentry tech for in-space manufacturing satellites
Welsh in-space manufacturing startup Space Forge has developed a satellite reentry system to enable rapid recovery and reuse of its in-space manufacturing spacecraft. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
US pharmacy giant says hackers accessed personal data of almost 6 million patients
One of the largest pharmacy service providers in the United States has confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of almost six million patients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple partner Foxconn to invest $500 million in India’s Telangana
Foxconn will invest $500 million to set up manufacturing plants in the southern Indian state of Telangana, the latest in a series of bets from the key Apple contract partner as it expands its base in the South Asian market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Toyota Japan exposed data on millions of vehicles for a decade
Toyota Japan has apologized after admitting to leaving millions of customers’ vehicle details on the public internet for a decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
TikTok turns up on the volume on its music play with NewMusic search feature
TikTok has upended how music is discovered, used and consumed these days; now, its long-term effort to build a business around that is getting a boost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Pinterest is combining Pins and Idea Pins into a single format
As Pinterest further shifts its focus to video content following the development of its video-focused Idea Pins, the company says it will now streamline its tools for all Pin formats into one creation flow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Study says App Store revenue of small developers grew by 71% in last two years
Apple just released findings from an independent study, which highlighted that the revenue of small developers on the App Store grew by 71% from 2020 to 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Clearview fined again in France for failing to comply with privacy orders
Clearview AI, the US startup that’s attracted notoriety in recent years for a massive privacy violation after it scraped selfies off the Internet and used people’s data to build a facial recognition tool it pitched to law enforcement and others, has been hit with another fine in France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Vast and SpaceX aim to put the first commercial space station in orbit in 2025
Artificial gravity space station startup Vast announced that it intends to put the first commercial space station in orbit in August 2025 via launch partner SpaceX. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
UK greenlights $7.3B merger between satellite rivals Viasat and Inmarsat
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially greenlighted the proposed $7.3 billion merger between Viasat and Inmarsat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Porsche taps Mobileye for automated driving functions in future models
Porsche has partnered with Mobileye, the autonomous driving unit that Intel spun out into a public company last year, to bring hands-free automated assistance and navigation functions to future sports cars, the companies said Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Western Digital tells customers that hackers stole their data
On Friday, a month after the company revealed it had been the victim of a data breach, Western Digital published an update on the incident and notified customers that their data was stolen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Virgin Galactic aims for triumphant return with crewed flight at the end of May
Virgin Galactic will return to the skies later this month, in a crewed mission that the company hopes will bring to an end the nearly three-year gap since its first and only crewed flight in July 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Security researcher finds trove of Capita data exposed online
London-based outsourcing giant Capita left a trove of data exposed online for 7 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Samsung surpasses Apple in smartphone shipments by 1% amid persisting market decline
Samsung overtook Apple through a slender 1% lead to secure the top spot in smartphone shipment volumes during the first quarter of 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Japan’s biggest drone maker sets its sights on the US
This week, ten-year-old drone company ACSL announced plans to enter the U.S. commercial drone market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ransomware attack forces Dallas to shut down courts, disrupt some 911 services
The City of Dallas in Texas has confirmed a ransomware attack has downed key services, including 911 dispatch systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Roku touts its new ad products, including an AI that matches campaigns to TV moments
In Roku’s recent quarter, the company posted better-than-expected revenue of $741 million, but worried investors with its warning of an uncertain ad market and declining average revenue per user. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Airbnb’s average home prices have gone up, so now it’s refocusing on rooms to give users more affordable alternatives
Airbnb started out of an idea of renting out spare beds and rooms in private homes to people as an affordable alternative to hotels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mixpanel moves into marketing data with its latest product
Traditionally, Mixpanel has provided information about product usage to product teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Box is partnering with OpenAI to bring generative AI tools across the platform
We’ve seen a number of enterprise software companies making announcements related to generative AI in the last six weeks from established companies like Salesforce and Adobe to startups like Ada and Forethought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
SpaceX’s Starship didn’t self-destruct immediately as planned during test launch
SpaceX’s recent Starship test flight, the first during which it flew with its Super Heavy orbital booster, was a bit more of a mess than it even appeared when it ended with a large explosion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Brave Search doesn’t use Bing’s index anymore
Brave just announced that it is now exclusively using its own index for its search engine. In other words, it doesn’t rely on third-party solutions like Bing anymore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Reddit is testing Discord-like channels for community chat
Reddit announced Thursday that it is testing Discord-like chat channels with select subreddits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Energy Dome gets $44M uplift into its CO2 battery for renewable energy storage
Italian climate startup Energy Dome, which has developed a “CO2 Battery” for storing renewable energy, has closed a €40 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NBCUniversal reports higher Peacock losses as it shows CEO the door
Peacock losses continue to widen this quarter, NBCUniversal parent company Comcast reported Thursday, just days after the company announced that Jeff Shell’s time as NBCU CEO was up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services
Smile Identity, a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve, a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
UK blocks Microsoft’s planned $68.7B Activision bid, saying it would ‘substantially weaken competition’
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has confirmed that it intends to block Microsoft’s megabucks Activision acquisition, concluding that such a merger would create “…the most powerful operator” in the cloud gaming market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
With $20M in new funding, Hydrosat preps climate-monitoring satellites for launch
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Spotify passes 500M users, but its premium-to-free ratio is falling
Spotify now has 515 million monthly active users (MAUs), representing a 5% increase on the previous quarter and 22% increase on the corresponding period last year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apigee rolls out new AI-powered API protection features
Timed to coincide with the annual RSA cybersecurity conference, Google Cloud announced updates to Apigee, its API management and predictive analytics service, designed to help prevent business logic attacks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Volvo Cars Tech Fund invests in driver monitoring startup CorrActions
CorrActions, an Israeli startup that, among other things, built a driver monitoring system that can understand a driver’s cognitive state, today announced that it has raised a strategic investment from Volvo Cars Tech Fund. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
The IRS is sending four investigators across the world to fight cybercrime
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to send four agents who specialize in investigating cybercrime to Australia, Singapore, Colombia, and Germany starting this summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter seemingly now requires all advertisers to have a verified checkmark
As Twitter’s legacy blue check mark system finally comes to an end, the social network’s new paid-for verification system is causing more than a little chaos, with CEO Elon Musk himself stepping in to pay for some celebrities’ verification when they refuse to do so. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Uber and Cartken are bringing sidewalk delivery robots to Virginia
Uber is expanding its partnership with sidewalk delivery robot startup Cartken to Fairfax, Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Outsourcing giant Capita fears customer data stolen during ransomware attack
Capita, the British outsourcing company that provides critical services for the U.K. government, says hackers may have accessed customer data during a cyberattack last month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Salesforce is working on a pair of new generative AI-driven workflow tools
One of the promises of generative AI is the ability to create code based on a written request. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ditto raises $45M to help companies keep their data in sync
Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. But the reality is more complex. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Alaska Airlines does away with check-in kiosks
Alaska Airlines recently started a 3-year, $2.5 billion project to improve the airport experience at its hubs and focus cities like Seattle, Portland, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple’s high security mode blocked NSO spyware, researchers say
Last year, Apple launched a new feature for iPhone users who are worried about getting targeted with sophisticated spyware, such as journalists or human rights defenders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mercedes debuts the Maybach EQS SUV with more power, range, and luxury
I can’t get over the huge faux grill. Mercedes today revealed the Mercedes-Maybach EQS SUV, an electric SUV built on its excellent EQS SUV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Adobe brings Firefly to its video tools
A month ago, Adobe announced Firefly, its entry into the generative AI game. Initially, Firefly’s focus was on generating commercially safe images, but the company is now pushing its technology beyond still images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year
Spotify is closing down Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music guessing game it acquired last July for an undisclosed sum. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter introduces 10,000 character long tweets for Blue subscribers
Twitter has introduced a new feature that will let Blue subscribers post 10,000-character-long posts — as if the social network is trying to compete with a rival newsletter platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter partners with eToro to show real-time stock and crypto information
Twitter has partnered with the investment platform eToro to show real-time information about stocks and crypto prices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M
Danish company LMS365, an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Truecaller brings live caller ID to iPhone… but with a catch
Truecaller has been a known name in the app market globally — thanks to its eponymous caller-identification service. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Strava launches integration with Spotify to let users listen to content while tracking activities
Strava, the activity tracking and social community platform used by more than 100 million people globally, has announced a new in-app integration with Spotify. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
‘Drink to dust’: Startup says just smash its clay alternative to plastic cups
Disposable plastic and paper cups are an environmental mess. GaeaStar, a startup based in Berlin and San Francisco, thinks it can do better with just clay, water, salt and sand. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ex-Twitter CEO Agrawal, other execs sue firm over unpaid legal bills
Former Twitter employees, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, ex-legal head Vijaya Gadde, and ex-CFO Ned Segal, have sued the social network over alleged unpaid legal reimbursements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices