Anyone even remotely interested in cameras knows that Zeiss lenses are the gold standard. But the 170-year old company's lenses can cost thousands of dollars each, making them pretty inaccessible for amateur photographers. But that is now changing, as the company has teamed up with the ExoLens brand to release three Zeiss lenses for the iPhone 6/6S and Plus. The three lenses are… Read MoreSource: TechCrunch
London-based startup Beamery, formerly known as Seed.Jobs, has raised $2 million in a seed round from Edenred Capital Partners and Grupa Pracuj, a human resources tech firm. Beamery makes software that helps recruiters or employers identify, get connected to and nurture relationships with prospective hires, long before they apply for a job. The company's client roster includes employers…
Airbnb has been under fire recently for some bad, racist behavior by hosts on its platform. Now, the Congressional Black Caucus is urging Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky to take further action in addressing the issues of racism and discrimination on Airbnb's platform. In a letter addressed to Chesky, the CBC notes how Title II of 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in places like…
Say what you will about the thieves who ply their trade in the digital realm, you can't deny they put in a hard day's work. After all, according to Verizon's just-released 2016 Data Breach Investigations Report, which analyzed an astounding 100,000 digital security incidents last year, these crooks continue to succeed at stealing corporate and personal data and records by…
eBay recently hired Damien Hooper-Campbell, Uber's now-former head of diversity and inclusion as its first-ever chief diversity officer. Hooper-Campbell will report to eBay SVP of Human Resources and Chief People Officer Kristin Yetto, which strikes me as odd because since when does a C-level person have to report to an SVP? As I mentioned, Hooper-Campbell most recently worked at Uber as…
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When it comes to choosing a container management platform, you're spoiled for choice these days. If you want an out-of-the-box multi-tenant platform that supports both Linux and Windows, though, you don't quite have as many options. ContainerX, which is launching out of beta today, supports both Docker and Windows Containers (still experimental for now, as Microsoft…
Following a massive cache of LinkedIn passwords being dumped online last month, users of another online service — Github — have become the latest target of a password reuse attack as hackers apparently seek to exploit credentials obtained elsewhere to gain illicit access to user accounts and data.