Monthly Archives: November 2022

The Easiest Social Media Optimization Techniques to Try Now

Social media optimization (SMO) helps business owners, content creators and social media marketers get the most out of their social media presence. Understanding how to optimize your profiles and posts for maximum returns might sound scary, but we’ve put together a list of simple tactics that don’t involve complicated keyword research or require technical know-how….

European Parliament DDoSed after declaring Russia a sponsor of terrorism

Enlarge / An iteration of what happens when your site gets shut down by a DDoS attack. The European Parliament website was knocked offline for several hours on Wednesday by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that started shortly after the governing body voted to declare the Russian government a state sponsor of terrorism. European Parliament…

An AI that lets cars communicate might reduce traffic jams

Even the briefest human pauses add up to big bottlenecks. Deposit Photos Did you know there’s a specific term for the times when you encounter sudden, inexplicable vehicle congestion on the interstate despite no discernible culprit such as rubbernecking or an accident? It’s called a “phantom traffic jam,” and was first identified around 12 years…

Electric motorbike maker Zapp Electric Vehicles to go public via SPAC

UK-based electric two-wheeler manufacturer Zapp Electric Vehicles is merging with a blank-check company to become publicly traded on the Nasdaq at a post-money valuation of $573 million. Zapp says it will use the proceeds from the merger to bring its long-awaited i300 high performance, seated city scooter to market. The i300 was initially revealed back…

#MyTechFrenemy

Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. Since its founding in 2020, a whisper network murmured that many of the materials taught by the academy were plagiarized from various other online programs, such as those from Google or Salesforce. Founded by Awodele…

Early Light Ventures plots a second, $15M fund for software ‘underdogs’

With a stated mission to “back the underdogs that traditional VC has overlooked,” early-stage investor Early Light Ventures has secured at least $10.6 million towards its next fund, TechCrunch has learned. Based in Baltimore, Early Light is still somewhat new to VC land with about four years and four exits under its belt, per Crunchbase….