Tech

Ring gave cops free cameras to build and promote surveillance network

Enlarge (credit: Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images) When Ring wanted to boost sales of it surveillance cameras and burnish its self-styled image as a crime-fighting company, it embarked on a brand-ambassador marketing campaign that would be familiar to many startups. But rather than chase down the Instagram influencers or beat bloggers, the company instead wooed […]

COVID 19 France Tech

Russia tried to spread dangerous lies about Pfizer vaccine, France suspects

Enlarge / The Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) French authorities are investigating whether the Russian government is behind an effort to spread dangerous lies about Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine as part of a disinformation campaign peddled to French bloggers and influencers. In recent days, several French influencers have […]

Business

Crystal Ball 2021: Predictions for the Market, politics, Tech, and Much more

In the event that you believed 2020 had been an erratic season, you likely were not paying attention. For more than ten years, epidemiologists have sounded the warning a once-in-a-hundred-years pandemic could ravage the entire world, and that the most innovative countries were ill-prepared to its fallout. In 2021, we’ll face challenges both comfortable and […]