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And on Friday June 25, it will publish its first report covering 120 UFO sightings. Does this means aliens exist? Disappointingly, the Pentagon will probably point to high-tech aircraft by Russia or China as an explanation. Still, it won’t completely rule out extraterrestrials. To try and get to the bottom of this, we discussed the much-anticipated report with TNW’s Alex Griffioen, one of the Netherlands’ main UFO experts and initiator of the UFO sightings website Ufomeldpunt....

In the last few months alone, the group has claimed the scalps of Nvidia, Ubisoft, Samsung, Okta, and Microsoft. Their brazen tactics have attracted a large following — and some powerful enemies. Here’s what we know about the digital extortionists. Who are the Lapsus$ hackers? Lapsus$ first hit the headlines last December after taking credit for an attack on Brazil’s health ministry. The group posted a message on the ministry’s website: The group showed an early preference for Portuguese-speaking targets — and an apparent desire for attention....

For this reason, more and more automakers are betting on solid-state, seeing them as the next big breakthrough in EV battery technology. But we have a question: how close are we to seeing them in the real world? And what are auto companies doing to make it happen? Volkswagen: The German brand has teamed up with QuantumScape, which plans to start series production of its solid-state battery cells in 2024....

Fast forward to August 2020, which saw an AI built by Heron Systems flawlessly beat top fighter pilots 5 to 0 at DARPA’s AlphaDogFight Trials. Time and time again Heron’s AI outmaneuvered human pilots as it pushed the boundaries of g-forces with unconventional tactics, lightning-fast decision-making, and deadly accuracy. The former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced in September that the Air Combat Evolution (ACE) Program will deliver AI to the cockpit by 2024....

“Please note that Twitter will do lots of dumb things in the coming months. We will keep what works & change what doesn’t,” the SpaceX CEO tweeted of his mission for Twitter 2.0. Some of those changes have, so far, included mass layoffs, some of which are now resulting in lawsuits from workers who say they weren’t given proper notice of termination, or sufficient severance pay. Musk has also reinstated former president Donald Trump to the platform, following a controversial public poll, and introduced a raft of changes which include an emailed edict to staff that, going forward, they would “need to be extremely hardcore....

Oh dear Oh yes. Basically, before the 1976 US Copyright Act, American works only had a copyright length of 28 years, according to Motherboard. Once this period was up, the books would have to be registered again. And you know what you can bet on in these sort of situations? No… Human laziness. Loads of people didn’t bother to re-register their copyright, meaning the work fell into the public domain. Which, for us, the people, is fantastic....

Speaking at the Banff World Media Festival in Canada, Quibi’s co-founder and former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg recently said Spielberg had already written five or six episodes. When the well-known director approached Quibi with the show, he had a condition that viewers should only watch it at night. The upcoming streaming service’s engineers have fulfilled that request with a clever approach. Using the phone’s timing function they’ll show a clock on the phone showing the time to the sunset at your location....

I would argue yes — and that the intranet can actually replace some of your Slack chats and Zoom meetings, rather than operate in addition to them. Before you jump ship, hear me out: with so many people working remotely these days, leaders run a real risk of burning out their employees with too many forms of communication: messaging, email, virtual conferencing, and so forth. A modern intranet can streamline those functions into one digital space, making it easier to connect and allowing you to recreate the water cooler effect that everyone’s been missing....

Sure, whatever. You can listen to his set below. Beyond the tunes, I was interested in the capacity for an EV as a reliable energy conduit. We’ve written a fair bit about Vehicle-to-home or (V2H) charging, where an electric car can share the energy it receives from the grid and use it to power a home or business. You can’t yet fully power your home with a Tesla (guess people wouldn’t buy a Powerwall then)....

And controversially, by default, it sends emails with an included tracking pixel. This allows the sender to see whether the recipient has opened an email. It also shows the time the email was opened, the recipient’s physical location, as well as the quantity of times an email was opened. This feature is proving extremely controversial. One part of the problem is that the feature is turned on by default, and Superhuman doesn’t make an effort to obtain the informed consent of email recipients....

According to a Bloomberg News report which cites “people familiar with the matter,” Foxconn Technology Group is in discussions to invest $200 million into Chinese EV startup Byton Ltd. [Read: The Kalashnikov CV-1 was meant to kill Tesla and impress Putin — but where is it?] The funding injection would allegedly help Byton begin manufacture of its M-Byte electric car by the first quarter of 2022. Although that information is not confirmed, and sources have not been named....

By 2025, the world’s data will grow to 175 zettabytes. To get your mind around the scope of that number, that’s equal to 175 trillion gigabytes. Or to make it even more ridiculous, if you burned all that data to blu-ray, you’d end up with a stack of discs that could reach the moon — 23 times. That’s a roundabout way of saying if your hard drive is getting a little clogged now, just wait until you see your data needs in just a few years....

That’s from Musk himself, who cited that “most likely [he] will not be on earnings calls.” Right, with that out of the way, let’s get into it. 1. More than $1 billion in profit Tesla reported $1.14 billion in (GAAP) net income for the Q2 of 2021 — the first time it has surpassed $1 billion. The automaker’s revenue jumped to $11.96 billion from $6.04 billion year-over-year, while the profit per share rose to $1....

I had heard enough of these cautionary tales to make me wary of raising money and so I avoided this as much as possible by focusing on businesses that I could bootstrap and fund through revenue. And I managed to do this a few times. However, with my latest venture, the first merchandising-as-a-service solution for retailers — Stylyze, I needed to face my fears and see if I could flip the script as we recognized that we need to bring in specific talent to help elevate our business and put it on the fast track to success....

Emoji blew up in 2012 and was fully embraced when Apple released iOS6 with its extended emoji keyboard. Since then, emoji have come a long way, and thanks to their skyrocketing popularity they are on every major social media platform out there. While there seems to be an emoji for every occasion, there is still a multitude of challenges, opportunities, and controversies surrounding them. Why do people with glasses or afro-textured hair types lack a place in the emoji keyboard?...

Get ready for the world’s most intimate technology event — because TNW Conference is returning to Amsterdam on September 30 and October 1. You’ll rub shoulders with international tech executives, top-tier investors, policymakers, startups, scale-ups, and other like-minded technology enthusiasts. It’ll be brimming with business, knowledge sharing, and TNW surprises (and also health and safety measures, those too). Oh… and did we forget to mention the parties? If that doesn’t convince you (how?...

Because it’s a massive shock. I took the leap and ditched my 9-to-5 for the entrepreneurial 24/7. It was far from being easy, but it’s the best decision I ever made — and if you’re contemplating it, I encourage you to go for it. Here are 2 years condensed into 5 minutes through 5 key lessons I learned transitioning from employee #50,000 at a corporate tech to leading my own tech startup....

Did you know that Beyonce’s website is under fire for its lack of accessibility? Or that Domino’s is fighting the Supreme Court over a website accessibility lawsuit filed by a blind customer? Lawsuits about accessibility for disabled internet users have climbed through the roof, with 2285 cases being filed in 2018 … That’s a whopping 177 percent increase over 2017. Website accessibility is big business — or, to be more specific, the lack of it is … If you thought website accessibility only mattered for governments and big business, think again....

As someone who has filmed a lot of interviews, I wanted to share some tips and tricks that I use when setting up situations so people look and sound great. Because no one signed up for this, but at least we can try to make the best of it. So let’s start at the top with… Oh, if you decide you’d rather be a faceless icon and not share your camera, just know it’s much easier to ignore a pulsing still image and click away to my email than look someone in the eye when they start speaking....

The country’s military seized control of the government on February 1, after the National League for Democracy (NLD) won the general election in a landslide. The opposition-backed army has since detained hundreds of NLD members, including party leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Thousands have taken to the streets in protest, relying heavily on open communication channels to broadcast military abuses from inside and receive support from outside. And activists likely haven’t seen the last of the military’s attempts to shut these down....