Getty Images/iStockphoto Playing Janet Jackson’s ‘Rhythm Nation’ on some older laptops causes them to crash. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains why. According to Chen, a “major computer manufacturer” at some point in the 2000s discovered that Rhythm Nation, a Jackson hit released in 1989, was crashing some laptops and caused a nearby laptop to crash […] More
HyperTrack, which provides standard logistics application programming interfaces (APIs) for enterprise last-mile delivery and fulfillment operations, today released a new developer platform called BuilderX, which enables developers to create customized logistics technology for on-demand use cases.The Berkeley, Calif.-based company also announced it has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by WestBridge Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners to support company growth and expand global engineering teams.Globally, analysts believe that the logistics market represents a whopping 12% of the world’s GDP. A huge trend in 2022 is the shift to on-demand fulfillment delivery logistics, with the gig workforce causing the automation technology required to skyrocket. In view of this trend, HyperTrack provides order planning, assignment, location tracking, and mapping infrastructure as simple APIs so product development teams can build functional last-mile logistics solutions in days with custom business logic and workflows. “Gig workers and the growing need for same-day delivery in the ‘here and now’ economy requires re-thinking of the logistics stack,” Kashyap Deorah, founder and CEO of HyperTrack, told ZDNet. “This funding will help fuel our mission in changing the way all industries deliver products and services.” What BuilderX doesAs the gig economy expands with increased demand for same-day deliveries, traditional logistics technologies can no longer accurately track the ground truth of order lifecycles, resulting in unsatisfied customers, inaccurate driver payments and delayed product development roadmaps, Deorah told ZDNet. “HyperTrack brings to market end-to-end order fulfillment APIs, giving developers the tools they need to quickly build solutions for scheduling as well as on-demand order planning, assignment, and tracking,” Deorah said. BuilderX includes software development kits (SDKs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) to plan, assign and track orders for last-mile logistics with custom business logic and workflows, Deorah said. Logistics tech builders no longer need to develop for months with a team of engineers to build out the consumer and driver apps for mobile, live location tracking, operations dashboard and cloud infrastructure, he said. BuilderX enableshttps://hypertrack.com/self-improving-routeseach step of the order lifecycle, from order planning and assignment to the precise point of fulfillment. Capabilities include: Planning and assigning orders for efficient operations: Developers can build custom business logic and workflows for on-time delivery with higher capacity utilization and predictable per order cost.Tracking orders for on-time fulfillment: Includes live location tracking with driver and consumer apps and an operations dashboard for continuous real-time visibility.Learning and improving end-to-end order fulfillment lifecycle: Includes intelligence built on ground truth of logistics operations including addresses, service, and route times.Develop and deploy end-to-end order fulfillment lifecycle solution for last mile logistics in days without a team of mobile, maps, and cloud expertsBuilderX is available starting today on the HyperTrack website. More
Current price: $29Original price: $34While not the biggest discount, this camera, available on Amazon, is worth considering if you are looking for a pet or baby monitoring device. The TP-Link Tapo is a compact camera with motion detection capabilities that works with both Google Home and Amazon Alexa, alongside your mobile device. For its modest price tag, the camera has a wealth of useful features, including a tilting mechanism, wireless connectivity, night vision, and the ability to save footage to a microSD card (up to 256 GB). More
Shutterstock — Rawpixel.com Microsoft has warned that a “highly persistent” threat actor from Russia has targeted NATO nations with credential theft campaigns that abuse OneDrive to compromise accounts, steal data and then leak information to sway public opinion. Dubbed Seaborgium by Microsoft, the group has worked to steal information from targeted NATO countries, particularly the […] More
Getty The number of different kinds of ransomware has doubled this year, new research suggest, as cyber criminals look to cash in on boom in extortion attacks. Ransomware has become one of the most significant cybersecurity issues facing the world today, as cyber criminals breach networks and encrypt files and servers, demanding a ransom payment […] More
Getty Images/iStockphoto Lyft is planning to deploy a massive driverless car fleet beginning in 2023. In anticipation of that milestone the company, which has partnered with self-driving car developer Motional, is updating its existing robotaxi service in Las Vegas with brand new all-electric models. The IONIQ-5 vehicles, developed by Motional atop a Hyundai platform, provide […] More
NicoElNino, Getty Images/iStockphoto DNS stands for Domain Name Service, and it’s at the heart of the internet. DNS makes it such that you don’t have to type an IP address to get where you want to go. Without DNS, instead of just typing, say, “Google” into your browser, you’d have to remember an address like […] More
With RDMA over Converged Ethernet, or RoCE, ethernet switching is ready to replace InfiniBand as an interconnect for GPUs, says ethernet switch chip vendor Broadcom. Broadcom 2022 For some time now, specialists in the area of computer networking have been talking about a second network. The usual network is the one that connects client computers […] More
