These startups are making smarter canes for people with visual impairments
The white cane for the 21st century. While many tech companies have increasingly worked to make technology more accessible for the blind and visually impaired, canes haven’t benefitted much from these advances. London-born WeWalk takes a more traditional approach to the white cane. Beyond the bulkier handle, not much sets
Read moreA drone punched a hole into an LA firefighting plane
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Read moreBench customers are now being forced to hand over their data or risk losing it, they say
After accounting startup Bench abruptly shut down on December 27 and was bought in a fire-sale by Employer.com, Bench customers are now learning they can’t easily just take their financial data and leave. And some are very unhappy about it, three customers told TechCrunch. To recap: When Bench, a startup
Read moreAmazon curbs some DEI programs
Amazon is now the latest company to curb some of its DEI programs, Bloomberg reports, after Meta announced that it, too, is ending its diversity efforts earlier on Friday. An internal memo that was sent to staffers said that the company was looking to wind down outdated programs and materials
Read moreTikTok ban: How both sides made their case to the Supreme Court and what the justices asked
On Friday, the nation’s highest court heard arguments on whether to uphold or block a law that could effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. The bill, signed into law by President Biden in April 2024, gives TikTok’s parent company ByteDance until January 19 to divest its U.S. operations or face
Read moreHow Elon Musk’s xAI is quietly taking over X
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge When Elon Musk launched his own AI startup, xAI, he touted a key advantage over his competitors: access to the vast trove of data from his newly acquired social media platform Twitter. By implementing new API fees on the network he quickly renamed
Read morePowerSchool data breach leaks info of students and staff at schools across the US
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Schools across the US and Canada are warning parents that a data breach may have leaked information for students and employees. The K-12 operations platform PowerSchool, which supports over 60 million students and has over 18,000 customers worldwide, suffered a breach that
Read moreNETSCOUT Integrates AI/ML for Smarter Cybersecurity
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. has announced updates to its industry-leading Arbor Edge Defense (AED) and Arbor Enterprise Manager (AEM) products as part of its Adaptive DDoS Protection Solution to combat AI-enabled DDoS threats and protect critical IT infrastructure. NETSCOUT’s DDoS Threat Intelligence Report noted that application-layer and volumetric attacks have increased
Read moreRichard Frost on AI’s Role in Cybersecurity
AI security tools are moving beyond traditional signature-based approaches and can now identify subtle patterns in digital behaviors. These systems are capable of continuously learning from network traffic, users, systems, and applications to establish behavioral baselines. Then, when anomalies occur—like an employee suddenly accessing a database at unusual hours, irregular
Read moreLG Partners with Xbox to Bring Cloud Gaming to LG Smart TVs
LG Electronics (LG) has announced a partnership with Xbox, which will provide users access to hundreds of games via the Xbox app on LG Smart TV. This adaptable, gaming-centric hub is designed to provide an all-in-one solution for seamless navigation and tailored gameplay, whether you’re playing the latest AAA games
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