On Tuesday Aug 11, Joe Biden informed his supporters of his decision to make Senator Kamala Harris his running mate, marking a historical moment in more than one way. Forceful and pragmatic, that’s how The New York Times’ Alexander Burns outlined the Senator who happens to be the first black woman and the first person of Indian descent to be nominated for national office by a major party. The daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father, Senator…

SpaceX brings astronauts home safely and clears the way for the company to regularly launch astronauts for NASA. This landing it’s just the beginning. — On Sunday, August 2 2020, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley safely landed, or actually, splashed, off the Florida coast after a two-month stay on the International Space Station. …

In response to President Donald Trump’ declarations from last Friday, ByteDance, the Chinese internet giant that owns TikTok, has offered to sell all its American operations as a way to save the business from being banned from the U.S. — On Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters that he would issue an order for TikTok, the popular short-video app owned by Chinese company ByteDance, to be banned in the United States as early as Saturday.

The media giant already started testing the new features with a few public figures on the mobile app only but it’s now extending them to a larger selection of Pages. — It’s no secret that Facebook is undergoing a significative restyling both in terms of UX and UI as news about new features and are progressively drip-fed to the public. …

As companies are on a permanent quest to out-perform the ever-evolving social media algorithms, these systems designed to recommend more of what we like, are pushing us into bubbles of similar and self-referential content while shaping us in more ways than we might immediately realize. — One of the side-effects of this pandemic made us rediscover is the power of internet in its more original form and intention, as a connective tissue underlying institutional societies.

When few providers become owners of over 50% of the market, it likely means that independent restaurants will have less and less negotiating powers. — Just Eat Takeaway, the parent company of one of Europe’s leading food delivery service Just Eat, said on Wednesday that it had agreed to buy U.S. company Grubhub in an all-share deal for $7.3 billion. While Grubhub’s CEO and founder Matt Maloney will lead the combined group’s businesses across North…

It’s a known fact that tech and politics usually do not mix however, if there was a need to reiterate the scale of the current protests against the use of excessive force by U.S. law enforcement, the fact that tech companies are asserting their position should be an additional confirmation. — Following the protests that are taking the United Stated by storm and which are “starting fires” in other parts of the world as well, tech firms are publicly supporting the George Floyd protests.

On bugs, Mayhem and how we’re increasingly immersed in a software based reality. — Like venture capitalist Marc Andreessen said “software is eating the world”. It is indeed true that software permeates our lives, from medical devices to IOT, to national security tools and weapons, so it only comes natural to think how cybersecurity is increasingly more relevant as we’re becoming more exposed to…

As the global pandemic dramatically boosted messaging apps, the pursuit of end-to-end encryption is turning out more challenging for some but nonetheless it’s the new benchmark for tech and media companies. — Founded in 2011, the same yeas as Snapchat, Zoom saw its popularity explode amid the coronavirus global pandemic, however, by the beginning of April, the video calling software faced a huge backlash after a series of security flaws led some institutions to ban its use.