Bird founder Travis VanderZanden officially leaves the nest
Travis VanderZanden’s slow-motion departure from Bird is now complete. The scooter rental company announced in a late-Friday news dump that the executive has stepped down from his role as chairperson of Bird’s board, “effective immediately.” Replacing VanderZanden is John Bitove, who played a role in saving Bird’s bacon this past
Read MoreTwitter has started blocking unregistered users
The new sign-in prompt now appears as soon as you try to access Twitter and removes the previously available background preview. | Image: Twitter / The Verge If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content
Read MoreApple is now the first publicly traded company to close above a $3 trillion market value
Apple is the first publicly traded company to close a trading day with a $3 trillion market value. The company’s shares climbed about 2.31% on Friday to a new high. The tech giant first reached a $3 trillion market cap back in January 2022, but failed to close at that
Read MoreCyber Security Today, Week in Review for the week ending Friday June 30, 2023
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday, June 30th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In a few minutes Terry Cutler of Montreal’s Cyology Labs will be here to discuss four
Read MoreCayley graphs in Mathematica
The previous post mentioned the group S4, the group of all permutations of a set with four elements. This post will show a way to visualize this group. The Mathematica command CayleyGraph[ SymmetricGroup[4], VertexLabels -> Placed["Name", Center], VertexSize -> 0.4] generates the graph below. This is an interesting image, but
Read MoreAre corporations too influential?
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. This week, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about how some of the biggest companies in the world have as much — if not more — power than entire countries. Most countries, at least,
Read MorePermutations and centralizers in Mathematica
I had a fleeting thought about how little I use group theory when I realize I used it just this week. A couple days ago I needed to know which permutations of 4 elements commute with reversal. If r takes a sequence and reverses it, I need to find all permutations
Read MoreTrend Micro joins Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange
Another security vendor has joined the Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange, the country’s not-for-profit threat-sharing hub for infosec pros. Trend Micro said this week it has become a member to contribute knowledge, threat insights and to help support cyber resilience across the country. “Trend Micro is deeply committed to innovation and
Read MoreFTC finally proposes ban on fake reviews
The FTC has proposed a new rule banning numerous forms of fake reviews online, from outright fabricated ones to those that are sketchily repurposed or secretly manipulated. It may not totally rehabilitate the notoriously unreliable online review ecosystem, but it could help make things a bit more bearable. This rule
Read MoreSecretive hardware startup Humane’s first product is the Ai Pin
Humane, the startup launched by ex-Apple design and engineering duo Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, today revealed details about its first product: The Humane Ai Pin. It’s been a long time coming. Humane has kept its work more or less under wraps since 2018, its founding year, unveiling no products
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