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Google’s Chrome Is Under Heavy Attack—This Startup Thinks It Has A Rival To Save Businesses From Disaster

Talon Cyber Security founders Ohad Bobrov and Ofer Ben-Noon. They’ve convinced big-name investors … [+] they have the answer to the boom in browser-based cyberattacks. Talon Cyber Security Browsers are proving to be a potential Achilles’ heel in computer and smartphone security. This year has seen a record number of so-called zero-day attacks in the wild, where unpatched weaknesses in software are exploited by hackers, and Google Chrome has seen at least 12… Source link

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Why Goldman Sachs just launched this ETF that will rival FAANG stocks

Goldman Sachs believes people are over invested in big cap tech names such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google [FAANG] that have minted fat profits and higher stock prices the past decade amid an explosion in tech advances. To get investors thinking beyond FAANG, the investment bank recently launched the Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders ETF. As the name implies, it looks to invest in the next big winners in tech that have true global exposure. “We launched the ETF strategy because… Source link

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How Google’s self-driving car project accidentally spawned its robotic delivery rival – TechCrunch

Nuro EC-1 Part 1: Origin story Nuro doesn’t have a typical Silicon Valley origin story. It didn’t emerge after a long, slow slog from a suburban garage or through a flash of insight in a university laboratory. Nor was it founded at the behest of an eccentric billionaire with money to burn. Nuro was born — and ramped up quickly — thanks to a cash windfall from what is now one of its biggest rivals. Nuro was born — and ramped up quickly —… Source link

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Ford quickly reaches 120,000 orders for its Tesla Cybertruck rival

The interest appears to be building for Ford’s first-ever all-electric F-150 dubbed the Lightning. Ford (F) has amassed 120,000 orders for the Lightning, CEO Jim Farley told investors on an earnings call Wednesday evening. About 75% of the orders are from those people new to the Ford brand, Farley said.  In late May, Ford said it had 70,000 orders for the Lightning. “I would say what we’ve learned so far [from Lightning orders] is that the customers are largely new to Ford, but they aren’t new… Source link

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Intel Falls on Latest Server Chip Delay; Rival AMD Gains

(Bloomberg) — Intel Corp. fell after saying a new version of its Xeon server chip line will go into production in 2022, rather than by the end of this year as promised, the latest in a series of delays that have cost the company technology leadership of the chip industry.Rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rose after Intel said Tuesday that a chip design, code-named Sapphire Rapids, will begin production in the first quarter of 2022 with the “ramp” beginning the following quarter. The… Source link

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Google’s AirTable rival, Tables, graduates from beta test to become a Google Cloud product – TechCrunch

Last fall, Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 introduced a new work-tracking tool called Tables, an AirTable rival that allows for tracking projects more efficiently using automation. Today, Google says Tables will officially “graduate” from Area 120 to become an official Google product by joining Google Cloud, which it expects to complete in the next year. The Tables project was started by long-time Google employee, now Tables’ GM Tim Gleason, who spent 10 years at the… Source link

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Google says rival search engines can appear on Android devices in Europe for free

The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has bowed to pressure from rivals and will let them compete for free to be the default search engines on Android devices in Europe, widening a pledge to EU antitrust regulators two years ago. The move by the world’s most popular internet search engine comes as the 27-country bloc considers rules that… Source link

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Google boosts Android privacy protections in attempt to rival Apple

Google is strengthening privacy protections for Android users who want to make it harder for advertisers to track them when they move between apps, as the company tries to counter Apple’s image as a better steward of personal data. In changes that will come as a fresh blow to the near $400bn-a-year digital advertising industry, Google will introduce extra safeguards for Android users that opt out of sharing their “Advertising ID” — a device identifier that allows… Source link

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