Raysecur says at least ten times a day someone sends a suspicious package containing powder, liquid, or some other kind of hazard. The Boston, Mass.-based startup says its desktop-sized 3D real-time scanning technology, dubbed MailSecur, can intercept and detect threats in the mailroom before they ever make it onto the ...
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How to build a website for any business: Your step-by-step guide
(Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto) The best way to build a website for a big business is to do it the old-fashioned way: hire professionals, give them clear instructions, and let them go to work. But for most small and medium-sized businesses, that option is prohibitively expensive. cnet The best website builders ...
Read More »This Week in Apps: Black Friday’s boost, security news and the year’s biggest apps
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. What are developers talking about? What do app publishers and marketers need to know? How are politics impacting the App Store and ...
Read More »Gift Guide: Essential security and privacy gifts to help protect your friends and family
Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2019 Holiday Gift Guide! Need help with gift ideas? We’re here to help! We’ll be rolling out gift guides from now through the end of December. You can find our other guides right here. There’s no such thing as perfect privacy or security, but there’s a lot ...
Read More »300M-user Imgur launches Melee, a gaming meme app
Ten years after its debut, 300-million-monthly-user Imgur is one of the last massively popular yet unpersonalized home pages on the internet. Because everyone sees the same upvoted posts when they open Imgur, it creates a shared experience full of inside jokes and running gags. But while you can switch to ...
Read More »To measure sales efficiency, SaaS startups should use the 4×2
Brian Ascher is a partner at Venrock, where he invests broadly across enterprise and fintech and serves on the boards of several companies, including Personal Capital, 6Sense, Socrates AI, Dynamic Signal, Retail Solutions, SmartBiz Loans, and Inrix. More posts by this contributor Running through walls: 6Sense’s Amanda Kahlow on values ...
Read More »NBN seeing over 500,000 service faults annually from 5.5 million connections
(Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet) The National Broadband Network (NBN) has revealed the extent to which it receives service faults, telling Senate Estimates via an answer to Questions on Notice that in the 2018-19 fiscal year, it received 501,600 service faults. At June 30, the NBN had just over 5.5 million active ...
Read More »Your next iPhone may not have a Lightning port
The new fakery of iPhone photography Tiernan Ray says that digital pictures on smartphones are changing dramatically from what they once were with digital cameras, as exemplified by the fantastic fakery of Apple’s iPhone 11 Pro Max. Read more: https://zd.net/36umMHI How attached are you to your iPhone’s Lightning port? Do ...
Read More »12 gifts for the holidays: Between Apple, Google, DJI, and Amazon there’s something for everyone
12 tech gifts for Christmas: Something for everyone Jason Perlow and Jason Cipriani cover their top tech gift recommendations this holiday season in this week’s episode of Jason Squared. Read more: https://zd.net/2OV0Xu0 The holidays are upon us, and that means it’s time to go shopping. Tech gifts usually sit near ...
Read More »Android’s ‘Focus Mode’ exits beta, adds new scheduling features
Google is expanding its suite of “Digital Wellbeing” tools for Android devices with a new feature, Focus Mode, launching today. This feature allows users to turn off distractions — like social media updates or email notifications — for a period of time, so you can get things done without interruption. ...
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