Monthly Archives: June 2022

Katie Adams / MedCity News: New York-based Tomorrow Health, whose data-driven marketplace matches patients with home-based care suppliers, has raised a $60M Series B led by BOND  —  Tomorrow Health — a platform that makes it easier for patients, providers and payers to coordinate home-based care …

Michael Sheetz / CNBC: The FCC authorizes SpaceX to provide Starlink satellite internet to vehicles in motion, including commercial airlines, shipping vessels, and trucks  —  – The Federal Communications Commission authorized SpaceX to provide Starlink satellite internet to vehicles in motion, a key step for Elon Musk’s company to further […]

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Kaspersky researchers discovered malware used in the wild since March 2021 to backdoor Microsoft Exchange servers of government and military orgs worldwide  —  Attackers used a newly discovered malware to backdoor Microsoft Exchange servers belonging to government and military organizations from Europe …

Reuters: Google settles a lawsuit by agreeing in part to pay $90M in a fund to support US app developers who made $2M or less in annual Play Store revenue from 2016-2021  —  Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a legal fight with app […]

Manya Saini / Reuters: Short-form video app Triller confidentially files for a US IPO, after ending its $5B merger with video ad software provider SeaChange on June 14  —  Short video app Triller Inc has confidentially filed paperwork for an initial public offering of its class A common stock with […]

Enlarge / Dr. Peter Marks, director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research within the Food and Drug Administration, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on the federal coronavirus response on Capitol Hill on March 18, 2021, in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty | Pool) […]

Prarthana Prakash / Bloomberg: Uber received 3,824 reports of sexual assault and misconduct in 2019 and 2020, down 38% from 2017 and 2018, but the rate of fatal physical assaults rose 18%  —  Uber Technologies Inc. said it received 3,824 reports of sexual assault and misconduct on its ride-hailing app […]

Enlarge / A man walks up the steps of the US Supreme Court. (credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Thursday’s Supreme Court decision regarding the use of the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants comes down to two specific issues: Should the Supreme Court take the case […]

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Meta says Instagram is testing a change that turns video posts into Reels with select users, as part of efforts to “simplify and improve the video experience”  —  Instagram is testing a change that turns video posts into Reels, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.

Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: As avatars for metaverse applications grow in popularity, a look at Understanding Comics, a 30-year-old illustrated lecture considered an avatar design bible  —  First published 30 years ago, Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics is the definitive comic book about comic books.