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Censinet launches with $7.8M in funding to help hospitals keep hackers at bay
For hospitals, cybersecurity can be a matter of life and death. The notorious WannaCry ransomware outbreak of 2017 hit an estimated 70,000 medical devices in the U.K. alone, while researchers recently showed it’s possible for hackers to alter MRI scans before doctors examine them. Boston-based Censinet Inc. is looking to help hospitals mitigate the growing array ...
Samsung pushes back Galaxy Fold launch after display issues
Following reports of malfunctioning test units, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said today that it won’t launch its Galaxy Fold handset on Friday as originally planned. The news is hardly unexpected. A couple hours before the official announcement, the Wall Street Journal broke the news that Samsung is postponing the release of the Galaxy Fold in the ...
Report: Apple has inked a five-year, $1.5B cloud contract with AWS
The relationship between Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. is one of the most prominent examples of the so-called coopetition that has permeated the tech industry. Apple competes with the online retail giant in a growing number of markets, while also hosting a sizable portion of its infrastructure on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud. A report ...
Reports: FTC may hold Zuckerberg accountable for Facebook’s privacy problems
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is considering a plan to hold Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg accountable for the company’s privacy blunders, according to two new reports. The Washington Post and NBC News today cited sources as saying that FTC officials are looking at Zuckerberg’s public statements in connection with an effort to determine whether to levy ...
Mozilla launches its WebThings smart home platform from incubation
In addition to developing Firefox and Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundation runs a raft of other, lesser-known technology projects. Among the more technically ambitious of these is WebThings, an open-source smart home platform that launched from incubation on Thursday. WebThings provides software modules for building and managing internet-connected devices. It consists of two components that serve ...
Microsoft acquires IoT operating system maker Express Logic
Microsoft Corp. has acquired Express Logic Inc., a relatively low-profile but influential software maker whose technology helps power a big chunk of the world’s internet-connected devices. The terms of the deal, which the companies announced today, weren’t disclosed. But it’s reasonable to assume that the price tag was quite substantial given Express Logic’s prominent role in ...
Facebook says it ‘unintentionally’ harvested 1.5M users’ email contacts
Another month, another Facebook Inc. privacy scandal. Following an exposé from Business Insider, the social networking giant today said that it has “unintentionally uploaded” the email contacts of 1.5 million users to its systems. The affected group includes people who signed up for Facebook from May 2016 to March 2019 and shared their email passwords with ...
Report: Facebook is developing an AI voice assistant
Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa and Google LLC’s Home voice assistants may soon face some new competition. CNBC reported today that Facebook Inc. has been quietly working on a rival voice assistant since early 2018. The network’s sources said that development is being carried out by Facebook Reality Labs, the division behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality ...
Stripe picks up biometric authentication startup Touchtech
The highly publicized online copyright and privacy laws currently being implemented by the European Union are only part of the regulatory changes facing the tech industry in the region. There’s also PSD2, an upcoming directive that will enforce increased security for e-commerce purchases. In preparation for the new regulation, online payments giant Stripe Inc. today ...
Harvard spinoff Zapata Computing raises $21M to develop quantum software
A consortium of venture investors is making a moonshot bet on Zapata Computing Inc., a startup developing software for quantum computers. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Zapata today said that it has raised a $21 million funding round co-led by the startup investment division of Comcast Corp. and Prelude Ventures. Several other institutional backers took part as well, ...
