Lyft, Inc. has upped its battle against rival Uber Technologies, Inc. in the ridesharing market by launching a premium car service to take on Uber Black. Called Lyft Premier, the service is being pitched at users who want a more stylish arrival for business trips and special nights out, and will allow users to book ...

Bitcoin surveillance startup Elliptic Enterprises Ltd. and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) have signed a partnership to target people who use bitcoin to acquire child pornography. Under the deal, the IWF, a group that focuses on eliminating child pornography online, has provided a database to Elliptic of bitcoin addresses associated with those dealing with the ...

Google, Inc. has updated its Android Google Now on Tap feature with three new functions including the ability to translate text on any page, a new built-in Discover mode, and the ability to scan barcodes and QR codes. Now on Tap, available for Android phones running Marshmallow 6.0 and above, first launched one month ago ...

Twitter, Inc. has started testing its live sports streaming service with a feed from tennis tournament Wimbledon. The test, which originally went unannounced except for a mention on the official Wimbledon Twitter account, sees Twitter providing a stream from ESPN that includes highlights, commentary, and analysis but not actual live games; the stream itself is ...

Ridesharing service Uber, Inc. has teamed with bitcoin services company Xapo Ltd. to allow Uber users in Argentina to pay for their rides using bitcoin. The deal is reported to have occurred due to attempts by the Argentinian Government to close Uber down, including banning all credit and debit card operators from processing payments for ...

Machine learning cyber security startup Darktrace Ltd. has raised $64 million Series C in a round led by KKR & Co. L.P. that included Summit Partners, TenEleven Ventures, and SoftBank. According to reports, the round was raised at a valuation of $400 million. Founded in 2013, Darktrace promotes itself as the leader in “Enterprise Immune ...

A form of Android malware called Hummingbad has been found to be on over 10 million devices globally, and would appear to be from the same firm that produces the Yispecter iOS malware, a security firm has revealed. Check Point explained in a blog post that the malware establishes a persistent rootkit on Android devices, ...

The hacker behind the infamous “celebgate/fappening” hacking scandal in 2014 that resulted in private images of celebrities appearing online has pleaded guilty. Edward Majerczyk, 28, of Chicago, stood accused of illegally accessing over 300 Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts. Majerczyk accessed the accounts by using a phishing scheme to obtain usernames and passwords for his ...

Big Data integration platform provider Talend SA has filed the paperwork to raise up to $86.25 million in an initial public offering (IPO). According to reports Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup and William Blair were leading the deal. Founded in 2005, Talend provides Big Data, Cloud, data integration, data management, Master Data Management, data quality, ...

Proving like many technologies before it, porn will drive the adoption of virtual reality. A VR porn festival held in the Tokyo district of Akihabara has been closed prematurely by police due to overcrowding. According to Hatenablog (in part translated by VR Talk) the VR porn festival highlighted a range of virtual reality technologies relating ...