July 2023

The U.K.’s largest NHS trusts has confirmed it’s investigating a ransomware incident as the country’s public sector continues to battle a rising wave of cyberattacks. Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs five London-based hospitals and serves more than 2.5 million patients, was recently added to the dark web leak site of the ALPHV ransomware gang. […]

UK battles hacking wave as ransomware gang claims ‘biggest ever’ NHS breach by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

FrontRow, a Masterclass-like learning and community platform in India, has shut down, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. The three-year-old startup sought to build a community where well-known artists and athletes taught their craft to consumers. The startup had raised about $18 million and counted Elevation Capital, Eight Roads Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Not Boring […]

FrontRow, a learning platform featuring celebrities, shuts down by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Besides the billions of dollars from local and foreign investors, a strong factor behind Africa’s growing tech ecosystem is its burgeoning talent. Being sought after locally and internationally, these homegrown talents — including software developers who, according to Google’s Africa Developer Report, grew almost 4% to 716,000, UI/UX designers, engineers and other tech professionals — […]

HR tech startup Propel wants to power the open talent economy via tech communities by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

In the race to reach carbon neutrality, many businesses are looking for various ways to cut emissions, whether through limiting high-carbon transit, becoming more energy efficient at home, or reducing our consumption of meat. But there are some things that individual consumers can do that don’t require massive lifestyle changes, making them more likely options […]

Eliminating food waste is the next frontier in saving the planet by Miranda Halpern originally published on TechCrunch