Tag: Startup

Peter Thiel’s AI company Palantir, whose clients have included the CIA and US immigration agency ICE, is back in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. A new report claims a glitch in its secretive software program used by the FBI allowed unauthorized personnel to access private data for more than a year. According to…

Astroscale hit a major milestone Wednesday, when its space junk removal demo satellite that’s currently in orbit successfully captured and released a client spacecraft using a magnetic system. The End-of-Life Services by Astroscale-demonstration (ELSA-d) mission was launched in March, with the goal of validating the company’s orbital debris removal tech. The demonstrator package, which was…

Just days after Elastic announced the acquisition of build.security, the company is making yet another security acquisition. As part of its second-quarter earnings announcement this afternoon, Elastic disclosed that it is acquiring Vancouver, Canada based security vendor CMD. Financial terms of the deal are not being publicly disclosed. CMD‘s technology provides runtime security for cloud…

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill., Aug. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ —  Forward Lift, part of Vehicle Service Group (VSG) and Dover  (DOV) – Get Report, has introduced a new line of frame-engaging adapter kits for use on Forward’s mobile column lifts. The attachments allow technicians to more easily lift and service a wider range of forklifts, such as reach…

A London-headquartered startup called LOVE, valued at $17 million following its pre-seed funding, aims to redefine how people stay in touch with close family and friends. The company is launching a messaging app that offers a combination of video calling as well as asynchronous video and audio messaging, in an ad-free, privacy-focused experience with a…

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 24, 2021. Today’s news cycle was particularly beefy, so we have a lot of ground to cover. Especially if you want to know the…

It hasn’t even been a week since Tesla hosted its AI Day, a livestreamed event full of technical jargon meant to snare the choicest of AI and vision engineers to come work for Tesla and help the company achieve autonomous greatness, and already CEO Elon Musk is coming in with some hot takes about the…

NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Set to grow by $ 57.12 mn during 2021-2025, Technavio’s latest market research report estimates the EAS antennas market to register a CAGR of almost 3.19%. With a focus on identifying dominant industry influencers, Technavio’s reports present a detailed study by the way of synthesis, and summation of data from…

Marathon Education was created after its founders realized after-school education in Vietnam hadn’t evolved much since they were kids. Some of the most popular tuition centers in big cities teach hundreds of students at once. “They’re packed like sardines and that really has not changed in the past one or two decades when I went…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline President Joe Biden on Monday urged private sector leaders to mandate coronavirus vaccines for their employees after the Food and Drug Administration granted full approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech shot, casting the development as a tipping point for vaccine-hesitant Americans. US President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks on…