Technology

Some startups are bold and original. And some, like Nate, had more modest goals: automatically filling out shoppers’ contact and payment information on retailers’ websites. In exchange for sparing them a minute or two of data entry on their phones, Nate charged shoppers $1 per transaction. But it struggled to Read more…

Kim Yong-rae is the CEO of Speefox, South Korea’s biggest manufacturer of capacitors, and he thinks robots are key to the company’s survival. On his factory floor, free-standing machines squeal as they spit out gleaming sheets of aluminum that roll into coils. The air is filled with the rhythmic thud Read more…

Apple today announced a major update to Apple Pay, called Apple Pay Later, which will allow users to split the cost of an Apple Pay purchase into four equal payments without interest or late fees. The new financial product — which was rumored ahead of its debut at Apple’s 2022 Read more…

Apple demonstrated “passkeys” at WWDC 2022, a new biometric sign-in standard that could finally kill off the password for good. Passkeys are based on the Web Authentication API (WebAuthn), a standard that uses public-key cryptography instead of passwords for authenticating users to websites and applications, and are stored on-device rather Read more…

Palermo in Southern Italy, home to about 1.3 million people, has shut down all its services, public websites, and online portals following a cyberattack on Friday. It’s impossible to communicate or request any service that relies on digital systems, and all citizens have to use obsolete fax machines to reach Read more…

“An actively exploited Microsoft zero-day flaw still has no patch,” Wired wrote Friday (in an article they’ve designated as “free for a limited time only.”) Microsoft first received reports of the flaw on April 21st, the article points out, and researchers have now seen malicious Word documents exploiting Follina for Read more…