Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission has issued a new notice calling for input into how tech companies handle consumer data, a crucial first step in setting binding rules for the industry. Formally known as an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR), the filing calls for public comment on data…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Thursday, the Federal Election Commission approved a new proposal from Google to keep campaign emails from being marked as spam. Google’s plan, first reported by Axios in June, would allow for candidates, political party committees, and leadership political action committees to apply for the program that would…
Evidence suggests shrews are a “natural reservoir” for the Langya virus. Pixabay As more wild animal species experience habitat loss from urbanization and deforestation, there’s a growing risk that more diseases that primarily circulate in wild and domestic animals will jump to humans. Scientists may have found yet another zoonotic transmission, this time via the…
Coinbase earnings reports carry weight because the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange commands material market share in a budding portion of the digital economy. Additionally, it’s an active startup investor and a key data point in determining the current health of the crypto market. Naturally, TechCrunch was all over its recently released financial data, pulling out a…
It’s not unusual for a tech company to be born by accident. Famously, Slack was created as a byproduct of a now defunct gaming company. Similarly, when Dropbase founders Jimmy Chan and Ayazhan Zhakhan were in the Y Combinator Winter 20 batch, they were testing the product they had built at the time and accidentally…
Satellite communication rivals Intelsat and OneWeb have announced an unlikely alliance to deliver multi-orbit, in-flight internet connectivity to commercial airlines around the world. The deal will see Intelsat, which specializes in higher altitude geostationary (GEO) orbit satellites, leverage OneWeb’s low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, to provide airlines with the best of both technologies — this should…
Sure, they aren’t as sexy as a Tesla, and they don’t get the press columns of long-haul trucking, but so-called yard trucks are an interesting subset of vehicles that benefit disproportionally from being electric. Orange EV just raised a truck-load of cash to electrify one of the easiest-to-electrify corners of the logistics pipelines: the trucks…
Venture capital firms continue to raise new funds, at what seems like lightning speed. Two firms stuck out in recent days, including Urban Innovation Fund, which closed with commitments of $100 million for its Fund III and $20 million Opportunity Fund, and VMG Catalyst‘s $400 million Fund II. Both firms are led by women, Clara…
Rivian, the EV startup that went public last year in one of the largest IPOs in U.S. history, has bucked the trend set by Tesla and other EV makers during the first half of the year. Tesla, the world’s largest EV maker, reported two consecutive quarters of delivery declines stemming from delays in the supply…
SAVE 53%: The Echo Show 5 (2nd Gen) is on sale for just $39.99 at Amazon as of Aug. 11. It’s typically $84.99, so you’ll save $45. If you already have a few smart home devices and are well-versed in all things Alexa, the next step for you might be an Echo Show. As of…