CubeSats’ Missions Begin
A pair of CubeSats designed by college students from around the world is deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer on the outside of the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module. Students from Mexico, Italy, Thailand…
Former Tesla product manager wants to make luxury goods impossible to fake, starting with a chip
The fake goods crisis cuts two ways. Luxury brands lose more than $30 billion a year to counterfeits, while buyers in the booming $210 billion second-hand market have no reliable way to verify that what they’re purchasing is genuine. Veritas want…
Singapore says China-backed hackers targeted its four largest phone companies
The Singaporean government said the China-backed hackers gained “limited access to critical systems” run by the country’s top four telecommunication giants, but said they did not disrupt services or steal customers’ data.
Vega raises $120M Series B to rethink how enterprises detect cyber threats
Vega Security raised $120 million, bringing its valuation to $700 million, in a round led by Accel. The company aims to rethink how enterprises detect cybersecurity threats.