Technology

(Reuters) — Tech giants, including Microsoft and Google, on Monday joined Facebook’s legal battle against hacking company NSO, filing an amicus brief in federal court that warned the Israeli firm’s tools were “powerful, and dangerous.” The brief, filed before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, opens up …

Google led an investment of $ 145 million in InMobi‘s social media startups Glance and Roposo, which are division’s InMobi’s mobile app marketing business. The deal is a boost for India’s tech market, where multiple unicorns (such as InMobi itself), or startups valued at a billion dollars or more, have …

The pandemic has given rise to social media accounts operated by malicious actors who aim to sow misinformation about COVID-19. As vaccination campaigns get underway, they threaten to stymie the push toward herd immunity around the world. Misinformation about masks and injections could contribute — and have contributed — to …

The checkout platform Bolt — not to be confused with the blockchain startup Bolt Labs, the hardware investor Bolt, or the ride-sharing firm formerly known as Taxify — today announced that it recently closed a $ 75 million funding round. The infusion comes after a year during which Bolt processed …

Ten months into the world’s response to the unprecedented global COVID-19 pandemic, every corner of America is attempting to find the best approach for bringing ourselves back to “normal” without exposing our vulnerable populations. I am in the unique position of being a leader directly involved with companies around the …

If you saw The Game Awards, then you known Call of Duty and Dead Space veterans are creating The Callisto Protocol, a new survival horror game coming in 2022. Striking Distance Studios has quickly built a team of 150 developers in San Ramon, California, to create a science fiction game …

This year will go down as one of the toughest in history, but Argentina-based mobile game publisher Etermax executed well. During the pandemic, the publisher of the hit mobile game Trivia Crack published eight titles. As people sought solace from games while social distancing, mobile gaming is expected to grow …

Earlier this month, following the U.S. Federal Food and Drug Administration’s emergency approval, the federal government began distributing doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to health systems throughout the country. With Moderna’s vaccine to follow, the Trump administration aims to deliver the first shots to 20 million people by year’s end. …

In a year that has seen decades’ worth of global shocks, bad news, and scandals squeezed into 12 excruciatingly long months, the summer already feels like a distant memory. In August 2020, the world was in the throes of a major social and racial justice movement, and I argued hopefully …