Say goodbye to your ever so creative dinners of croque monsieur (grilled cheese with ham) or consommé avec noodles (cup of instant ramen). This category of Tech5 scaleups is going to whip us into shape by making deliveries quicker, easier, and better for our health — and even the health of our lovable pets. Tech5 2020: On the search for Europe’s hot young scaleups Every year TNW and payments tech giant Adyen have been scouring the European tech scene for the fastest growing scaleups....

According to security firm FireEye, the cyber threat group — dubbed Advanced Persistent Threat 41 (APT41) — is unique in that “it leverages non-public malware typically reserved for espionage campaigns in what appears to be activity for personal gain.” While the group appears to have been active at least since 2012, the public disclosure suggests that its twin motivations became apparent from 2014 onward. Called Barium or Winnti by other companies, APT41 has been previously linked to various supply chain compromises targeting Asus, NetSarang, and CCleaner utility in recent years....

Unfortunately, this rosy portrait bears no relation to reality. For starters, the profile of a programmer’s mind is pretty uncommon. As well as being highly analytical and creative, software developers need almost superhuman focus to manage the complexity of their tasks. Manic attention to detail is a must; slovenliness is verboten. Attaining this level of concentration requires a state of mind called being ‘in the flow’, a quasi-symbiotic relationship between human and machine that improves performance and motivation....

To name a few examples, there’s the soundscape by designer and musician Yuri Suzuki, and the BMW i4’s soundtrack, developed by Hans Zimmer. But to turn the sounds of an EV into an independent musical composition is a first, claimed by Polestar. The Swedish electric brand has collaborated with engineer and musician Moritz Simon Geist “to create a whole new type of music.” Moritz rose to fame by building robots that create music from unlikely sources....

This, of course, didn’t last. While their downfall was multifaceted and took several years, it can be roughly linked to the time when our old dumb phones morphed into the touchscreen polymaths they are today. Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Siemens Mobile crumbled, and Europe’s smartphone dominance vanished. In their place Apple and Samsung rose, companies that now dominate Europe’s smartphone market. The stats are telling. Currently, Apple has a 34....

A court document submitted by Wright’s defense reads: “Counsel for Dr. Wright have been diligently working on meeting this deadline, however, Central and South Florida are currently threatened by a major hurricane.” “Hurricane Dorian is expected to make landfall in Florida early next week and counsel for Dr. Wright have been expending significant time preparing for the hurricane, which has limited their ability to work on this matter,” it continued....

The bank, co-founded by Paula Pandolfino, also received backing from Carduus Asset Management, CoinDesk reports. It’s not known how much each investor contributed to the round, but Pandolfino confirmed the bank would be looking to raise an additional $30 million in the future. “Crypto [sic] will take over the world, and we need full banking services,” Pandolfino told the publication. “We want to be that pillar of banking for the ecosystem to support how it gets done....

If your knowledge of cryptocurrency only extends as far as shaking your head dismissively when someone brings up Elon Musk’s darling dogecoin, you might be missing the larger point. While much of the cryptocurrency market is still driven by wild speculation with minimal basis in real world logic, crypto and its blockchaining roots are anything but a fly-by-night idea. In fact, many would argue the decentralized technology that fuels crypto creation on platforms like Ethereum are ready to fundamentally change the way digital information, business, finance, and security are all handled....

The latest refreshes to some of the world’s most popular laptops are nothing to sniff at. Leading off with the excellent XPS 13, this summer’s version goes 2-in-1 and will be the first of Dell’s offerings to feature a 10th generation Intel Core processsor. Overall, Dell says it’ll be 8% thinner but, thanks to a shift to 16:10 screen ratio, it’ll have 7% more display viewing area. Credit: Dell There’s nothing quite so radical in store for the XPS 15’s summer refresh....

If you’re a business owner in 2020, you better have some ideas about how your product or service is going to capture attention online. If you haven’t thought through exactly how that will happen, you might want to put the brakes on everything until you do. Optimized content can drive up an online blog post by 2000 percent. Almost 90 percent of marketers say adding video to online messaging led to a direct increase in their sales....

By combining this technology with the data we have at our disposal, we can accelerate the way healthcare operates and works to treat more patients globally. For example, by applying artificial intelligence and deep learning techniques to data, we can unlock its potential by using algorithms to see patterns in clinical outcomes and patients’ behavior. These can be used to inform improvements to today’s interventions and build new digital treatments that can be accessed anytime and anywhere, and made available to people or parts of the world who don’t have access to healthcare today....

But the statistics are sobering: Only 28% of major corporations are succeeding in their digital transformation efforts, according to Michael Gale in Forbes. Why do so many of these projects fail? Let me start with a story. A while back an IT leader told me that the business was pushing back on a big data project. The project was failing to show value and failing to show ROI. In response, the team decided to attack the problem with machine learning....

According to Bloomberg, the company said it recently became aware of an instance of unauthorized access involving a consumer-facing portal. While it did not contain genetic data or health records, the details are very scarce at the moment. It hasn’t disclosed the exact nature of the breach, the kind of information that was accessed, or when it became aware of the incident, and for how long the portal lay exposed....

Last week, I stumbled upon this minimal calculator called Numi. The best feature about it is you can simply type calculations in sentences to get your results, like ’50 INR to USD,’ or ‘today + two weeks.’ Plus, it’s easy to do unit and currency conversation so that you don’t have to take Google’s help for converting Indian Rupees to US Dollars or feet to centimeters. To check out all the operations you can perform on Numi, head here....

Now, normally we whisper names like that over here on SHIFT, because electrons are the order of the day, not gas-guzzling quarter-mile machines. But we do like it when cars get safer or more secure, so we took a look at Dodge’s announcement. …and came to the conclusion that it makes no sense, whatsoever. Seriously, I’ve scratched a hole in my head for the past few days. That’s why I asked an expert — and Dodge — what the heck is going on....

A journalist asks: “What technological advance allowed such huge performance gains?” The chief executive replies: “We created a new biological chip using lab-grown human neurons. These biological chips are better than silicon chips because they can change their internal structure, adapting to a user’s usage pattern and leading to huge gains in efficiency.” Another journalist asks: “Aren’t there ethical concerns about computers that use human brain matter?” Although the name and scenario are fictional, this is a question we have to confront now....

The company, founded in 2009, is now valued at more than $77 billion — nearly as much as traditional companies Ford and General Motors. It was briefly valued at $104 billion after trading began. Shares were offered at $78 each — above the previously estimated price between $57 and $62, showing there’s a keen commitment to buy. Pretty good for a company with almost no revenue from actual vehicle sales....

The journey will last for several days and the spacecraft will do a full orbit around the Earth every 90 minutes. This should give the passengers plenty of opportunities for sight-seeing before re-entering our atmosphere for a water landing off the coast of Florida. Tech tycoon Jared Isaacman will command the Dragon astronaut capsule and donate three other seats to members of the public. “While a historic journey awaits us in space, I hope this mission reinforces how far inspiration can take us and the extraordinary achievements it leads to here on Earth,” he said....

Microsoft is a lot more than Word or Excel. Heck, there’s a whole galaxy beyond PowerPoint too. As hard as it may seem to believe, there are even Microsoft apps that aren’t a part of the Office productivity suite. Apps like Microsoft PowerShell. For the uninitiated, PowerShell is one of those programs you probably wouldn’t even think about, let alone use. But if you’re an IT expert, a system admin, or someone who knows their way around a command prompt, then PowerShell might be one of the most valuable pieces of software around for automating and streamlining your daily workflow....

Bike commuters face this problem on a daily basis. However, help is on its way from Belgian ebike maker, Cowboy. [Read: How Netflix shapes mainstream culture, explained by data] In the latest update of its app — out this week — Cowboy has added a navigation feature which allows riders to plan their routes based on air quality. Air quality data is supplied by Breezometer, the same company that supplies air quality data to the Apple Weather app....