Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop One showed off the new futuristic travel pod it hopes will change the face of travel.
Source: CNET
Mars shows off its strange side with a NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image that looks like some sort of weird alien amoeba.
Source: CNET
California’s Silicon Valley is a community with a long history of shared spaces accessible to the public. Now the companies may need to rethink their culture of openness.
Source: CNET
Digital media company Fullscreen announced this morning that it has acquired Reelio .
The startup has described itself as “the Match.com of brands and creators on YouTube,” collecting data about video creators and connecting them with marketers who want to use their skills and reach their audience.
In the announcement, Fullscreen suggests that Reelio’s technology will allow the company to offer a more complete set of services around influencer marketing.
“The integration of Reelio’s platform into our network brings us one step closer to building a complete solution for the future of brand marketing, which we believe will be social-first and content-driven,” said Fullscreen General Manager Pete Stein in a statement. “The strength of Reelio’s data, technology, and team will be a huge asset to our company, and we’re excited to work alongside them as we continue to enhance our influencer marketing offerings.”
The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Variety reports that the entire 50-person Reelio team (including co-founder and CEO Pete Borum) will be joining Fullscreen.
Reelio had raised $8 million in funding from investors including e.ventures, Tremor Video co-founders Jason Glickman and Andrew Reis and former Bertelsmann president Thomas Hesse. Fullscreen, meanwhile, is owned by Otter Media, the joint venture between AT&T and the Chernin Group.
Source: TechCrunch
San Bruno police identified the attacker as Nasim Najafi Aghdam, a woman in her late 30s from San Diego.
Source: Wired
New methods of controller use are merging the gaming world and the real one—and Nintendo is leading the charge.
Source: Wired
At the Amazon Summit in San Francisco today, the company announced a new cloud service that enables organizations to create and manage private certificates in the cloud.
While the Summit wasn’t chock full of announcements like the annual re:Invent conference, it did offer some new services like the beefing up the AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) with an all-new Private Certificate Authority (PCA). (Amazon does love its acronyms.)
Private certificates let you limit exactly who has access, giving you more control and hence greater security over them. Private certificates are usually confined to a defined group like a company or organization, but up until now it has been rather complex to create them.
As with any good cloud services, the Private Certificate Authority removes a layer of complexity involved in managing them. “ACM Private CA builds on ACM’s existing certificate capabilities to help you easily and securely manage the lifecycle of your private certificates with pay as you go pricing. This enables developers to provision certificates in just a few simple API calls while administrators have a central CA management console and fine grained access control through granular IAM policies,” Amazon’s Randall Hunt wrote in a blog post announcing the new service.
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The new feature lets you provision and configure certificates, then import or export them after they’ve been created. The certificates are stored on “AWS managed hardware security modules (HSMs) that adhere to FIPS 140-2 Level 3 security standards. ACM Private CA automatically maintains certificate revocation lists (CRLs) in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3),” Hunt wrote. What’s more, admins can access reports to track certificate creation on the system.
The new service is available today and costs $400 per month per certificate authority you set up. For complete pricing details, see the blog post.
Source: TechCrunch
Fin7, also known as JokerStash, Carbanak, and other names, is one of the most successful criminal hacking groups in the world.
Source: Wired
There are plenty of things to like about the XPS 15 2-in-1, but not all the configurations Dell offers are worth considering. For example, the 4K configuration looks great, but it drains your battery quickly and adds an extra $400 to the overall cost.
The post Salivating over the new XPS 15 2-in-1? Here’s how you should configure it appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
Hired has released its annual pay equity report. Unsurprisingly, white men earn the most at $136,000 per year on average, followed by Asian men making a yearly average of $135,000.
Here are some other stats that highlight the pay discrepancies in tech:
Other fun (sad) facts:
Unfortunately, the wage gap hasn’t changed since Hired’s 2017 report. The silver lining, however, is that wage equality for tech workers in the U.S. is better than in Toronto, London and Paris. Anyway, you can check out the rest of the sad state of our society here.
Source: TechCrunch