June 23, 2025

Book review: Surveillance & privacy

Privacy only matters to those with something to hide. So goes one of the more inane and disingenuous justifications for mass government and corporate surveillance. There are others, of course, but the “nothing to hide” argument remains a popular way to rationalize or excuse what’s become standard practice in our digital age: the widespread and…

Google Play now lets children send purchase requests to guardians

December 21, 2022

Google already offers parents and guardians tools to restrict purchases their children make on Play Store using the family payment method. The company is now introducing an additional feature that will allow children to send a purchase request for the manager of the family account to approve when there is no present payment method. Children […]

Google Play now lets children send purchase requests to guardians by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Agri-Food And Agritech Trends For 2023

December 21, 2022
As we grapple with numerous challenges, organizations and countries need to take and quick decisive actions backed by the right investments to enable sustainable living

India central bank chief warns crypto will cause the next financial crisis if permitted to grow

December 21, 2022

The Indian central bank’s governor said on Wednesday that it’s not at war with crypto, but asserted that cryptocurrencies have no underlying fundamentals and their usage should be prohibited. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das told a room packed with banking executives and lawmakers that crypto has a huge inherent risk to the macroeconomic and stability of […]

India central bank chief warns crypto will cause the next financial crisis if permitted to grow by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Software Navigator

December 21, 2022
Whatfix’s platform, co-founded by Khadim Batti, helps in overall digital transformation of the company by aiding in change management, employee onboarding, remote training etc.

As expats fled China’s zero-COVID, this developer built a sci-fi game for NetEase

December 21, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, foreigners have been leaving China in droves to escape the country’s strict “zero-COVID” restrictions, which had limited people’s domestic and overseas travel for nearly three years until rules began to relax recently. So when NetEase, the second-largest gaming company in China, said it had an expats-led studio working […]

As expats fled China’s zero-COVID, this developer built a sci-fi game for NetEase by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

This autonomous ornithopter lands and perches on a single claw

December 21, 2022

Isn’t it wonderful that there are researchers out there whose job is quite simply to make a robotic bird? That’s certainly the goal of this lab, whose flapping-wing drone, or ornithopter, has now been equipped with a grasping claw to let it take a rest on a nearby branch or perhaps even finger — a […]

This autonomous ornithopter lands and perches on a single claw by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Sequoia’s Carl Eschenbach, who led deals for Zoom and Snowflake, to run Workday as co-CEO

December 21, 2022

Carl Eschenbach, a longtime enterprise software executive who joined Sequoia Capital in 2016 and went on to lead a number of lucrative deals for the venture firm, is going back to an operating role. As the new co-CEO of Workday, Eschenbach will co-lead the enterprise cloud applications giant with its co-CEO, cofounder and company chair […]

Sequoia’s Carl Eschenbach, who led deals for Zoom and Snowflake, to run Workday as co-CEO by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch