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Self-driving car technology startup Pony.ai has raised an additional $102 million in an extension of its $112 million round in January to accelerate expansion into low- and medium-volume autonomous vehicle deployment. The additional money from the Series A1 round came from Green Pine Capital Partners, …
US signs off on deal to lift trade sanctions against ZTE
ZTE Corp. will regain access to U.S. technology after the U.S. Commerce Department today signed off on a final deal subject to the Chinese electronics giant making a final payment. The deal was brokered by the Trump Administration in response to a decision by …
Adding AT&T as an investor, Magic Leap promises goggle launch this summer
Magic Leap Inc. is promising to deliver the long-awaited developer edition of its mixed-reality goggles this summer. The pledge came as the company announced a new investor and exclusive retail launch partner in the form of AT&T Inc. The”Magic Leap One Create Edition” goggles …
Hacker found selling confidential U.S. military drone and tank documents on the darknet
A hacker tried to sell sensitive U.S. military documents relating to Reaper drones and tanks on the shady part of the internet called the darknet, security firm Recorded Future Inc.’s Insikt Group has discovered. The material included Air Force maintenance training materials …
Macy’s and restaurant group B&B Hospitality the latest to suffer data breaches
Iconic department store company Macy’s Inc. and New York-based restaurant group B&B Hospitality Group are the latest in a long list of companies to have customer data hacked and stolen. With Macy’s, the company said that an unknown third party gained access …
Facebook introduces augmented reality advertising for the holidays
It may be only July, but it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Facebook Inc. The social media giant today announced support for augmented reality advertising that it’s pitching as ideal for the holiday season. The new AR ads, initially being tested …
Former Apple employee charged over data theft from autonomous vehicle project
A former Apple Inc. engineer has been charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for stealing confidential information from the company’s autonomous vehicle project. The accused, named Xiaolang Zhang, was employed by Apple in December 2015 to work on Project Titan, Apple’s self-driving …
WhiteHat Security teams with RiskIQ for external asset monitoring
WhiteHat Security Inc. today announced a partnership with RiskIQ that will give its customers access to RiskIQ’s Digital Footprint Snapshot technology. The technology expands the reach of WhiteHat’s Discovery tool by allowing customers to expand their security coverage to point-in-time snapshots of …
Here’s what you need to know about the Timehop data breach
Timehop, both an app and a company that was big on Facebook until the social network copied its features via its own “On This Day” service in 2015, has been hacked. Data relating to 21 million users was stolen. It consisted of names …
$23M stolen in hack of decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Bancor
Decentralized cryptocurrency exchange Bancor is offline after a hacker managed to steal about $23 million in cryptocurrencies from the service. Details on how the hack took place are scant. Bancor described it only as a “security breach” and said that “no user wallets were …