Romain Dillet
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Coinbase launches in 11 countries with crypto-to-crypto conversions only
Coinbase has been available in 42 countries around the world before today — mostly in North America, Europe, Australia and Singapore. Today, the company is aggressively expanding by opening 11 coun
Alsid raises $14.7 million to secure your Active Directory installation
French startup Alsid has raised a $14.7 million funding round (€13 million). The company is working on a security solution to protect your Microsoft Active Directory installation and make sure a hac
ZenGo wants to become the crypto wallet for the masses
KZen is about to release ZenGo, a mobile app to manage your cryptocurrencies securely and more easily. There are already countless crypto wallets out there, but the startup thinks they’re all either
Apple could build macOS feature to use your iPad as extra Mac display
According to a report from 9to5mac’s Guilherme Rambo, Apple is working on a feature that would let you pair your iPad with your Mac to turn your iPad into a secondary Mac display. That feature, code
Sony shares some details about the PlayStation 5
Lead architect for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita Mark Cerny gave a lengthy interview to Wired’s Peter Rubin and shared some details about Sony’s next-gen console — the console that is l
Dropbox challenger pCloud just became profitable
Between Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and iCloud Drive, consumer cloud storage is a crowded space. And yet, a small company called pCloud has managed to attract more than 9 million users o
iOS 13 could feature dark mode and interface updates
According to a report from 9to5mac’s Guilherme Rambo, the next major version of iOS for the iPhone and iPad will present many new features, such as universal dark mode, new gestures, visual changes
Disc-free Xbox One S could land on May 7th
Microsoft is about to launch an even cheaper Xbox One S. In order to cut costs, the company is removing the Blu-ray disc drive altogether. According to leaked marketing images spotted by WinFuture (vi
ReachFive manages logins and accounts for e-commerce platforms
French startup ReachFive wants to become Stripe for account management. The company just raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by CapHorn Invest, with Dawn Capital and Ventech also participa
Apple shares progress report on supplier usage of clean energy
Apple announced that there are now 44 suppliers that have committed to use clean energy for Apple production. It doesn’t mean all suppliers are using renewable energy; it also doesn’t mean that th
Julian Assange arrested in London after Ecuador withdraws asylum
London Metropolitan police has arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London. He has been holed up in the Embassy of Ecuador in London since 2012 in order to avoid a warrant against him. Ecuador
Coinbase launches debit card in the UK
When you buy cryptocurrencies on Coinbase, many users simply don’t know what to do with them. Customers in the U.K. can now get a good old plastic card and spend cryptocurrencies in-store and on any
Google’s managed database service to support Microsoft SQL Server
It’s not every day that you read a headline with both Google and Microsoft. Google is announcing today that its managed database service Cloud SQL will soon support Microsoft SQL Server. The company
Google Cloud Data Fusion lets you see all your data sets before ingesting them in BigQuery
Google is announcing several updates to its data analytics products at its Google Cloud Next developer conference today. The company wants to make it easier to move data to Google’s cloud, manipulat
Watch day 2 of Google Cloud Next live right here
Yesterday, the opening keynote for Google’s Cloud Next conference was packed with news, from Google’s hybrid cloud platform Anthos to Google’s new product to turn a container into a URL. At 9 AM
France’s tax on tech giants passes first vote
The lower house of the French parliament has voted in favor of the new tax on tech giants without any modification. Big tech companies that generate significant revenue in France will be taxed on thei
Watch Google Cloud Next developer conference live right here
If you can’t stop dreaming about NoSQL databases, Google’s Cloud Next conference is the closest thing to heaven that you’ll find today. At 9 AM PT, 12 PM ET, 5 PM GMT, some of the brightest mind
Apple could release a 31.6-inch 6K external display this year
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a new report about future Apple products — 9to5mac obtained the report. The company could be working on a new 31.6-inch external display with a 6K resolution that
Mozilla adds fingerprinting and cryptocurrency mining protection to Firefox
Mozilla is adding a new feature to protect you against web annoyances in future releases of Firefox. The new feature is currently available in the beta version of Firefox 67, and the nightly version o
Ousted Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn says ‘this is a conspiracy’ in video message
While Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO of Nissan and Renault, is currently in jail, his lawyer and communication team released a new video statement. The seven-minute video was shot hours before his lates