For any journalist who has ever googled their name, or for anyone else who have ever googled a journalist’s name, there is a good chance that one of the top hits will be for Muck Rack, a database that trawls social media, online publications, and other expanses of the internet to compile lists of people,…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Is it possible to build a voice assistant for the call center that can pick up on indirect questions to figure out the best time to hand calls over to a human? That depends on how high the bar’s set. Generally speaking, customers don’t look forward to any automated experiences over the phone, which means…
BENGALURU — Weather officials are predicting more monsoon rains in Bengaluru, complicating prospects for a quicker recovery for India’s Silicon Valley where floods have wrecked many slum houses, cut transportation links, knocked down power and disrupted business operations in parts of the city. The disruption has exposed the poor infrastructure in the city, home to…
In 2011, the Nigerian government launched a financial inclusion initiative and set a target to include 80% of the country’s adult population. Although only a target of 64% was met by the end of the decade, one positive from the exercise is that achieving financial inclusion across the country is still a continuous process that…
Intel has put together an incentive bundle to persuade folks to buy prebuilt PCs with an Arc Alchemist graphics card plus Alder Lake CPU, consisting of a bunch of games and more serious software. The all-Intel machines come with $190 (around £165, AU$280) worth of PC games (and in-game content in one case) plus a…
Just a week ago we were reporting on how the iPhone 14 might be the first smartphone to offer satellite communication, but as it turns out it won’t – because Huawei just got there first with the Huawei Mate 50 and Mate 50 Pro. These two newly announced smartphones both allow for texts to be…
Microsoft has revealed the latest slate of games heading to Xbox Game Pass, including a new life-sim that casts you away to a Disneyfied version of Pelican Town. Headlining this month’s Xbox Game Pass releases is Disney Dreamlight Valley. A cross between Stardew Valley, Animal Crossing, and virtually every popular Disney IP, it’s a light…
DDoS protection provider DDoS-Guard has followed Cloudflare in terminating its services for controversial forum Kiwi Farms. After analyzing the content of the website, notorious for trolling marginalized social groups, DDoS-Guard disallowed the site from using its DDoS protection service. Kiwi Farms forum administrators activated DDoS-Guard protection for their domain on September 4, 2022, following Cloudflare’s…
Good morning, readers. I’m Phil Rosen, reporting from Manhattan. Let’s start with two key energy moves. First, as you may have heard, Russia cut the tap indefinitely for Nord Stream 1 pipeline gas flows. Russian President Vladimir Putin today blamed Germany and Western sanctions for the halt in operations, but said that gas flows could…
Former President Donald Trump. Drew Angerer/Getty Images A top lawyer met Trump during the Russia investigation to discuss representing him, a new book says. But Stephen Brogan, of the top law firm Jones Day, did not end up getting the job, the book said. Jones Day partners reportedly believed Trump wanted “someone a bit more…