Enlarge / Starlink Premium antenna.Starlink Starlink has started taking orders for a premium service with a bigger antenna that delivers download speeds of up to 500Mbps, and it costs five times as much as the standard service: $2,500 for the hardware and $500 per month for Internet access. “Starlink Premium has more than double the antenna capability of Starlink,” the product’s website says. More specifically, the higher-performance user terminal has “twice the area of our standard phased array with broader scan angle,” SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter. It’s intended for small offices, stores, and residences. The exact physical…
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It’s one thing to know whether an individual customer is intrigued by a new mattress or considering a replacement for their sofa’s throw pillows; it’s another to know to how to move these people to go ahead and make a purchase. When deployed strategically, artificial intelligence (AI) can be a marketer’s trusted customer experience ally—transforming customer data into actionable insights and creating new opportunities for personalization at scale. On the other hand, when AI is viewed as merely a quick fix, its haphazard deployment at best can amount to a missed opportunity and at worse undermine trust with an organization’s…
Hopper, the mobile travel booking startup and app that lets users book flights, hotels, cars, and — most recently — short-term home rentals a la Airbnb and VRBO, has been on a fast pace of growth in the wake of Covid-19 travel restrictions loosening up in the last year, with 70 million downloads to date and $2 billion+ in travel sales last year. Now the company is gearing up for its next steps. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company has raised $35 million in a secondary share sale that values the company at $5 billion. For some context,…
Financial Times: Sources: Yuga Labs, the startup behind Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, is in talks to raise funds from a16z at a $4B-$5B valuation, its first outside funding — NFTs pioneer Yuga Labs seeks $4bn-$5bn valuation from Silicon Valley investor — The start-up behind Bored Ape Yacht Club …
As 2022 slowly unravels, we’ve begun to ponder the lessons learned from working from home. A more isolated work rhythm resulting from the Home Office has undoubtedly thrown team workplace collaboration off-kilter due to a more significant lack of face-to-face communication with other members. Furthermore, with team members dispersed across different geographical locations, management of both the team and the remote team and any ongoing project work have to collaborate and adapt quickly. However, for many, the start of 2022 marks the beginning of a second-year working from home. As a result, businesses and their individual project teams have had…
Mac malware known as UpdateAgent has been spreading for more than a year, and it is growing increasingly malevolent as its developers add new bells and whistles. The additions include the pushing of an aggressive second-stage adware payload that installs a persistent backdoor on infected Macs. The UpdateAgent malware family began circulating no later than November or December 2020 as a relatively basic information-stealer. It collected product names, version numbers, and other basic system information. Its methods of persistence—that is, the ability to run each time a Mac boots—were also fairly rudimentary. Person-in-The-Middle attack Over time, Microsoft said on Wednesday,…
What it all means: The findings come with the caveat that they’ve been derived from a small pool of volunteers, and are published in a pre-print paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed. However, they provide useful insights nonetheless. The fact that people become infectious so quickly and stay infectious for so long suggests that recommended isolation periods should be kept at around ten days. Although the virus was detected in the throat first, it was eventually present at much greater levels in the nose, highlighting the need to wear face masks properly so they cover the nose. Get tested:…
Wormhole, a popular cryptocurrency platform that offers bridges between multiple blockchains, announced on Twitter that it noticed an exploit. The attacker apparently exploited the bridge between the Ethereum and Solana blockchains. It redirected around $320 million worth of ETH to crypto wallets that don’t belong to the Wormhole team. A bridge is a combination of smart contracts that facilitate interoperability and transactions between different blockchains. Users typically use a web app to take advantage of a bridge. They connect their wallet with the web app and then initiate a transaction. Once the transaction is confirmed on the origin blockchain, crypto…
Clothilde Goujard / Politico: Meta, YouTube, Twitter, and TikTok sue the German government over rules requiring illegal pieces of content are sent to a federal database, citing privacy risks — Social media giants are joining forces to take on the German government over its beefed-up online hate speech law.
Carlos Amaya, Alejandro Gaviria y Jorge Robledo hacen parte de la Coalición Centro Esperanza. Camilo Romero es uno de los precandidatos presidenciales del Pacto Histórico.Foto: Archivo particularPoco a poco se va consolidando el sonajero presidencial, luego de más de 30 precandidaturas que se anunciaron el año pasado. La Coalición Centro Esperanza (CCE), que vivió sus horas más difíciles en la última semana por cuenta de la discusión entre Alejandro Gaviria e Ingrid Betancourt, que concluyó con la salida de la líder de verde Oxígeno, ya tiene a tres de sus seis precandidatos presidenciales inscritos oficialmente ante la Registraduría. Desde la…