Autonomous truck startup Plus announced today it has raised $200 million in new funding to accelerate the global commercialization and deployment of its automated trucking system. That will include the development of a sales and support network to help fleets integrate its automated trucking system and scale up deployments in the U.S. and China. The Series B ...

Shares in Uber Technologies Inc. dropped in after-hours trading today after the ride-hailing giant missed analysts’ predictions for its fourth-quarter earnings. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Uber reported gross bookings of $17.2 billion, down 5% year-over-year on revenue of $3.17 billion. Analysts had predicted a figure of $3.58 billion. Uber booked a loss of ...

Video game developer CD Projekt S.A., the maker of “Cyberpunk 2077,” has been struck by a ransomware attack that resulted in data stolen. The company said in a tweeted statement today it detected a cyberattack that compromised some of its internal systems Feb. 8. An unidentified actor is described as collecting certain data belonging to the CD ...

Shares in Lyft Inc. rose to a 17-month high in after-hours trading after the ride-hailing company beat analysts’ predictions in its fourth-quarter earnings report. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Lyft reported revenue fell 44%, to $569.9 million, from a year ago because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it rose 14% from the third quarter. ...

Shares in Twitter Inc. rose slightly in after-hours trading after the microblogging service beat analysts’ predictions for its fourth-quarter earnings but warned of increasing expenses in the year ahead. For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Twitter reported a profit of $222 million, or 38 cents a share on revenue of $1.29 billion, up 28% from a ...

The price of bitcoin smashed through $40,000 today to hit new record highs amid reports that Apple Inc. could be interested in the cryptocurrency and Tesla Inc. had purchased $1.5 billion in bitcoin. Although bitcoin first broke through the $40,000 mark in January, its price had varied since from just below $30,000 through to nearly ...

Sadly in 2021 not a day passes without news of a company, government or organization being targeted by hackers, but usually cyberattacks don’t try to poison thousands of people. That’s exactly what nearly happened last week in Pinellas County, Florida. An unknown attacker remotely accessed a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida, on Friday, Feb. ...

Apparently there will be no Apple Car coming out of South Korean companies. Both Hyundai Motor Co. and its subsidiary Kia Corp. today denied reports that they’re in talks with Apple Inc. to develop an electric autonomous vehicle. Apple’s efforts to build a car go back to 2015, although it was reported in 2016 that the Apple car ...

The Ziggy ransomware group has shut down and released a decryption key amid concern that it may be targeted by law enforcement, according to a report today from Bleeping Computer. The group reportedly announced on a Telegram group that it would be shutting down, with a message that included the phrase “we are very sad about what ...

Tens of thousands of patient records stolen from two hospital chains have been published on the dark web, the shady corner of the internet where illicit goods are sold. The records were stolen from Leon Medical Centers, which serves eight locations in Miami, Florida and Nocona General Hospital, which has three locations in Texas, according to a ...