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What Programmatic Advertising Can Do for Businesses in 2022
The programmatic advertising industry has experienced a meteoric rise and swift adoption in 2022, becoming the most prominent digital advertising ad display method. At the end of 2021, programmatic ads expenditure reached over $150…
Peloton’s ‘Worst-Kept Secret’ Is Out (Yes, It’s a Rowing Machine)
Yesterday afternoon, the Twitter account for digital fitness company Peloton tweeted an emoji of a person rowing a boat. That’s it; that’s the tweet. If you wondered if that meant Peloton is sinking, you couldn’t be totally blamed—after…
The NSA Swears It Has ‘No Backdoors’ in Next-Gen Encryption
A group of human rights lawyers and investigators called on the Hague this week to bring what would be the first ever “cyber war crimes” charges. The group is urging the International Criminal Court to bring charges against the dangerous…
How SpaceX and Elon Musk could delay your next flight
You can typically blame an airline flight delay on a handful of usual suspects, like bad weather, mechanical issues, and traffic on the tarmac. But thanks to the rise of the commercial space industry, there’s now a surprising new…
How a French satellite operator helps keep Russia’s TV propaganda online
Enlarge / Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during the Moscow Urban Forum 2018 on July 18, 2018 in Moscow, Russia.Getty Images | Mikhail Svetlov
Not long after Russia steamrolled…
Farming Drives Toward ‘Precision Agriculture’ Technologies
This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Across Midwestern farms, if Girish Chowdhary has his way, farmers will someday release beagle-sized robots into their fields like a pack of hounds…
Some top 100,000 websites collect everything you type—before you hit submit
When you sign up for a newsletter, make a hotel reservation, or check out online, you probably take for granted that if you mistype your email address three times or change your mind and…
Tokyo- and Bangkok-based Opn, formerly Synqa, a digital payments and blockchain tech provider,…
Tokyo- and Bangkok-based Opn, formerly Synqa, a digital payments and blockchain tech provider, raises a $120M Series C+ at a $1B+ valuation — Digital payments processor Opn, formerly known as Synqa, said it had raised $120 million in…
Sam Bankman-Fried, Crypto Billionaire, Wants Washington to Follow His Lead
Mr. Bankman-Fried spent much of Crypto Bahamas shuttling back and forth from his laptop to the convention stage. Even his mother, Barbara Fried, had trouble getting time alone with him: As she tried to catch his eye one afternoon, a…
Will Crypto Play a Role in Funding Abortion Access?
“With privacy, it’s like, once it’s out, it’s out,” Professor Meiklejohn said.Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, a physician and the director of Women on Waves, a nonprofit that provides resources for abortion seekers, found this to be the case when…