Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the company is launching more hands-free features for its Ray-Ban Stories smart glasses. Starting today, Ray-Ban Stories users can make calls, hear message readouts and send end-to-end encrypted messages with WhatsApp. Meta added similar functionality for Facebook Messenger last year. Zuckerberg also announced that users will soon be…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
A ransomware attack on a little-known debt collection firm that serves hundreds of hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. could be one of the biggest data breaches of personal and health information this year. The Colorado-based Professional Finance Company, known as PFC, which contracts with “thousands” of organizations to process customer and patient unpaid…
When Yin Wu started Pulley, a cap table and equity management startup, back in 2019, she was out to compete with the likes of Carta. My colleague Connie Loizos spoke to Wu in 2020 when the company raised $10 million. The company provides tools and insights to founders and employees who are looking to make…
Clearview AI has been hit with another sanction for breaching European privacy rules. The Athens-based Hellenic data protection authority has fined the controversial facial recognition firm €20 million and banned it from collecting and processing the personal data of people living in Greece. It has also ordered it to delete any data on Greek citizens…
Facebook made its “smart” glasses finally do something a little smart. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a Facebook post on Wednesday that the Ray-Ban Stories glasses it debuted last year would get their first substantial software update. Rolling out immediately are the abilities to make phone calls, as well as send and hear messages read…
SAVE UP TO 49%: A range of graphics cards from top brands like MSI and ASUS are on sale this Prime Day, saving you up to 49% on list price. The absolutely stunning images from the James Webb Telescope go some way to demonstrating the mind-blowing enormity of the universe. We are just a tiny…
SAVE UP TO 70%: A wide range of SanDisk memory cards are on sale this Prime Day, saving you up to 70% on list price. We could all do with a little extra storage space for photos, videos, games, and whatever else is currently causing your devices to buckle under the weight of your content….
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SAVE UP TO 46%: A range of Chromebooks are on sale this Prime Day, saving you up to 46% on list price. Prime Day is slowly drawing to a close, and that means you don’t have long to secure the best deals. We don’t want to keep you any longer than necessary, so let’s get…
Despite the fact its title makes it sound oddly like an action movie, Orphan: First Kill looks every bit as horrifying as the franchise’s original 2009 outing. William Brent Bell’s prequel sees Isabelle Fuhrmann reprise her role as Esther, this time impersonating a missing child in order to work her way into a wealthy American…