Despite a seemingly never–ending stream of negative publicity, Uber Technologies Inc. continues to speed down the ride-hailing road in both revenue and number of riders. For the second quarter ended June 30, Uber reported that the number of riders rose 17 percent over the first quarter and 150 percent over the second quarter of 2016 to ...

Threat protection startup Versive Inc. Tuesday said it has raised $12.7 million in a new funding round from a number of undisclosed investors. Founded in 2012, Versive offers a platform called the “Versive Security Engine” that utilizes artificial intelligence and human expertise to deliver enterprise users what it calls automated “adversary campaign hunting.” Versive says the technique ...

Doubling down on its threat in May to cripple drones that aren’t registered, Chinese drone maker DJI (Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science and Technology Co. Ltd.) has now warned that owners of its Spark drones who do not install the latest firmware update will not be able to fly the drone at all starting Sept. 1. DJI is justifying ...

Weather forecasting company AccuWeather Inc. has allegedly been caught spying on users. A report published Tuesday detailed how its iPhone app sends data back to the company and an advertising partner even when users don’t give it permission. First spotted by security researcher Will Strafach, the AccuWeather iOS app is alleged to send location data to the company ...

An accident involving a Liberian-registered ship and the USS John S. McCain has resulted in speculation that the Global Positioning System guiding the guided-missile destroyer may have been spoofed. The accident, the fourth involving a ship from the U.S. Seventh Fleet this year, occurred in the Strait of Malacca, a stretch of water between the Malay Peninsula ...

Killer robots may be a common theme in science fiction, but in his latest flight of fancy, Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has added killer robots to the list of things he doesn’t like alongside artificial intelligence. In a letter released Monday, supported by more than 100 robotics and artificial intelligence experts, Musk called ...

In a bust that’s worthy of its name, a company with an upcoming initial coin offering by the name of Enigma has been hacked. The bad guys running off with 1,500 in Ethereum tokens, worth $473,000. Founded in 2015, Enigma pitches itself as an open data technology company that focuses on analyzing public and private data for ...

Enterprise database startup Redis Labs Inc. has raised $44 million in a Series D round led by Goldman Sachs Private Capital Investing. Founded in 2011, Redis Labs provides a hosted cloud service for Redis, an open-sourced NoSQL structure store that is primarily used to host databases but can also be used as a cache and message ...

Notorious Saudi hacking group OurMine successfully hacked social media accounts for the PlayStation Network over the weekend, but in a more concerning twist, it’s claiming it also compromised PSN itself. In a series of tweets and Facebook messages that appeared Sunday, the group first claimed responsibility for hacking into the social media accounts, writing “PlayStation, ...

In a move that’s bound to make intellectual property providers such as Getty Images Inc. nervous, Google has developed a new algorithm that can easily remove watermarks from images. Detailed in a paper presented at the 2017 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition last month, the algorithm takes advantage of an error in the watermarks are typically ...