Monthly Archives: October 2022

Snap’s share price slumps 27% after the company reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth ever

Snap said macroeconomic headwinds hit advertising revenue. Richard Drew/AP Snap’s reported revenues only rose 6% from a year to $1.13 billion in the third quarter of 2022. It was Snap’s slowest quarterly growth ever and its sales missed market expectations. Shares slumped 27% in after-hours trade. Snap Inc. shares slumped by almost 30% in after-hours…

Exclusive: most people still reuse their passwords despite years of hacking

The results are in for our exclusive password manager survey in partnership with OnePulse, and we’ve uncovered a few surprises. As we all accumulate an ever-increasing number of digital accounts, password security is more important than ever. With the advent of password generators and multifactor authentication, attempts are being made to make our online world…

Shark skin is nearly impossible to engineer. A 3D look shows why.

Sharks have distinctive skin that allows them to prowl the seas. Pexels This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. Few people have gotten close enough to a shark to pet it. If you could run your hand from a shark’s…

Pillar of the community: How Talkbase plans to power user-led growth for any company

A new startup is setting out to help companies build and harness communities around their products, enabling them to side-step multiple disparate tools and manage everything in a single platform. Founded out of the Czech Republic in 2021, Talkbase launched out of stealth just a couple of weeks back, backed by $2 million in pre-seed funding…

The Russian army has given newly drafted soldiers ‘absolutely no equipment,’ forcing families to buy armor and clothing so conscripts have a ‘chance to come back’

Soldiers conduct military exercise in Moscow, Russia, on September 1, 2022. Russian Defense Ministry / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin enacted a partial military mobilization in September. The Guardian reported that Russia is undersupplying or insufficiently supplying the new troops. “Soon they’ll make us buy our own grenades,” a draftee said…

Trump was deposed in a fraud suit that involved a failed ‘videophone’ from 2008, which lawyers alleged was ‘doomed almost from the outset:’ report

Donald Trump was banned from Twitter two days after the January 6 Capitol riot. Alex Brandon/AP Donald Trump, his company, and his three oldest children are being sued in a class action lawsuit. The suit claims that Trump defrauded investors into backing ACN, an MLM telecommunications company. The company’s flagship product was a “videophone” that…

TikTok fires back at Forbes, denies report of a plan to track specific US citizens using its app

Nick Barclay / The Verge TikTok is strongly pushing back against a Forbes report alleging that its parent company wanted to use the video app to “monitor the personal location of some specific American citizens.” In a series of tweets, TikTok accused Forbes of leaving off a vital part of its statement, which says that…