Try to think of the top manufacturing startups today, and you might struggle to name one. While some companies leverage manufacturing to achieve futuristic ideas such as redesigning living organisms or colonizing Mars, few have turned their attention to the heart of the process: factory floors. “Manufacturing is the most unsexy space for anybody to be in,” admits Prasad Akella. “It takes deep conviction on the investors’ part to want to put money in this space. Silicon Valley has walked away from manufacturing for the last 20 to 25 years.”
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How To Make $1 Million From Hacking: Meet Six Hacker Millionaires
Who wants to be a hacking millionaire? For most technically competent folk starting on a cybersecurity career path the pull of a million-dollar hacking payday is tempered by the threat of a lengthy spell in jail should they get caught.
Or at least it is if your idea of a hacker is someone who breaks into stuff illegally. I call those people criminals, threat actors and, to be honest, pretty dumb. After all, there’s plenty of money to be made uncovering vulnerabilities and generally making the data-driven world we live in a little bit safer, all without breaking the law.
Apple has offered $1 million (£820,000) to anyone who can hack the iOS kernel of an iPhone without requiring any clicks by the user. Exploit acquisition platform Zerodium, meanwhile, is offering $2 million (£1.6 million) for anyone who can pull of a “zero-click” remote jailbreak of an iPhone. In the meantime, six hackers on the HackerOne bug bounty platform have now made more than $1 million each.
Here’s how they did it.
A Multimillionaire Surveillance Dealer Steps Out Of The Shadows . . . And His $9 Million WhatsApp Hacking Van
On a wildflower-lined gravel track off a quiet thoroughfare in Larnaca, Cyprus, Tal Dillian is ensconced in a blacked-out truck. It’s a converted GMC ambulance, pimped out with millions of dollars of surveillance kit, antennas on top reaching out to learn what it can from any smartphone within a 1-kilometer
Why SoftBank Invested $300 Million In Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Robotic Process Automation (or RPA) is one of the hottest areas in the enterprise technology sector these days, reaching $1.3 billion this year, says Gartner. According to the market research firm, RPA software revenue grew 63.1% in 2018 to $846 million, making it the fastest-growing segment of the global enterprise
