At least eight companies have been affected, and some were asked for $5 million in ransom. Russian criminals may be behind it, security researchers said.
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Can Food Delivery Work for Everyone?
How restaurants and delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash are thinking about post-pandemic home delivery.
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Richard Branson Will Try to Beat Jeff Bezos to Space
The Virgin Galactic founder hopes to edge out, by nine days, Blue Origin’s first flight with a crew aboard.
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Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords
Enlarge (credit: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Google has given the boot to nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company’s Play marketplace after researchers said these apps used a sneaky way to steal users’ Facebook login credentials. In a bid to win users’ trust and lower their guard, the apps...
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Thinking about selling your Echo Dot—or any IoT device? Read this first
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Like most Internet-of-things (IoT) devices these days, Amazon’s Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a factory reset so, as the corporate behemoth says, users can “remove any… personal content from the applicable device(s)” before selling or discarding them. But researchers have recently found that the digital bits that remain...
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‘Crucial Time’ for Cloud Gaming, Which Wants to Change How You Play
Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon are ramping up offerings on a platform that lets people enjoy high-quality games on any device.
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Robinhood Reveals Rising Revenue and a $1.4 Billion Loss
The stock-trading app unveiled its initial public offering prospectus on Thursday, pulling back the curtain on its financial performance for the first time.
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(BPRW) WIKIMEDIA COO JANEEN UZZELL TO JOIN THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
(Black PR Wire) ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) has announced the selection of veteran technology executive, engineer, and longtime NSBE member Janeen Uzzell as its chief executive officer, a newly created position f
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Iranian Disinformation Effort Went Small to Stay Under Big Tech’s Radar
The effort, targeting activists in Israel, was the latest indication that governments are trying new, harder-to-detect methods to sow discontent online.
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Didi, the Chinese Ride-Hailing Giant, Makes Its Debut on Wall Street
The company is going public as investors continue to embrace share sales by tech companies. But Didi could face additional scrutiny because of its Chinese origins.