Italian car company Lancia is being reborn as an EV-only brand

Lancia’s new wordmark featuring its new brand font. | Image: Lancia Lancia, the Italian car company owned by Stellantis alongside Fiat, Chrysler, Citroën, Vauxhall, and Peugeot, is being revived as an electric car brand. The company announced plans to produce three electric vehicles between 2024 and 2028: a new Ypsilon, new Delta, and an unnamed…

NopeaRide, Kenya’s first EV taxi service, shuts down

Kenya’s first fully electric taxi service, NopeaRide, is exiting the market after its parent company EkoRent OY failed to raise additional funding to keep it afloat. NopeaRide said EkoRent Africa, the local subsidiary of the Finnish company, has filed for insolvency in Kenya, bringing to an end the operations of the all-electric vehicle taxi player,…

Software supply chain security is broader than SolarWinds and Log4J

Dan Lorenc Contributor Share on Twitter Dan Lorenc is CEO and co-founder of Chainguard. Previously he was staff software engineer and lead for Google’s Open Source Security Team (GOSST). He has founded projects like Minikube, Skaffold, TektonCD and Sigstore. SolarWinds and Log4j have made software supply chain security issues a topic of intense interest and…

Pearpop raises $18M at a $300M valuation to scale its social collaboration marketplace

Pearpop, a marketplace for social collaborations, announced today that it has raised an extension to its 2021-era Series A funding round. The company has added $18 million to its Series A, bringing its valuation to $300 million. Since its launch in October 2020, Pearpop has raised $34 million in funding. The new investment includes funding…

Twitter’s security issues predate Elon Musk – and firing staff isn’t going to help

A month of Twitter’s new management passed and the blue bird icon hasn’t stopped making headlines.  A tumultuous series of back and forths finally led to Musk’s takeover at the end of October, finally culminating in a $44 billion deal. The richest man in the world offered to buy the popular social media platform for,…

I visited KFC’s pop-up London pub, where guests can get fried chicken delivered to their table and everything is chicken-themed. Take a look inside.

Grace Dean/Insider KFC opened its first-ever pub, “The Colonel’s Arms,” on Friday in Hammersmith, London. The pub, launched to celebrate the FIFA World Cup, heavily promotes KFC’s delivery service. It features chicken-drumstick table soccer, chicken wallpaper, and framed photos of the Colonel – take a look inside. KFC has just opened its first-ever pub, called…