 |  | | Tuesday, November 05, 2019 • By Anthony Ha | |
Happy Tuesday Google takes an open-source approach to designing secure chips, UPS and CBS team up for drone deliveries and Xiaomi launches the Mi Watch. Here’s your Daily Crunch for November 5, 2019. | | | |
| The aim of the new coalition is to build trustworthy chip designs for use in data centers, storage and computer peripherals. The project will allow anyone to inspect the hardware for security vulnerabilities and backdoors. It comes at a time where tech giants and governments alike are increasingly aware that hostile nation states are trying to infiltrate and compromise supply chains in an effort to carry out long-term surveillance or espionage. Read more | |  Image Credits: Science Photo Library - PASIEKA. / Getty Images | | |
| UPS is rolling along with its drone delivery program, working with partner CVS Pharmacy to deliver prescription drugs to customer doorsteps via its newly deployed commercial drones. In fact, UPS delivered medications to two paying customers on November 1. Read more | | | |
| Xiaomi, which competes with Apple for the top position in the wearable market, today made the competition a little more interesting. The Chinese electronics giant has launched its first smartwatch, called the Mi Watch, which looks strikingly similar to the Apple Watch. Read more | |  | | |
| Ebury provides foreign exchange, money transfer and other currency services to small and medium businesses and their banking partners. With the deal, Madrid-based Santander will become a majority shareholder at 50.1%, but it says Ebury will continue to operate as an independent entity. Read more | | | |
| If voice is a new operating system, where are the opportunities to build giant companies on top of it? (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more | |  | | |
| The U.K. startup has been working with Tencent to develop AI-based methods for building and tracking "digital" biomarkers — measurable indicators of the progression of illnesses and diseases that are picked up not with blood samples or in-doctor visits but using apps and wearables. Read more | | | |
| On the Extra Crunch Stage at Disrupt Berlin, three of the finest practitioners of the dark arts of branding, public relations, marketing and communications will share their tips and tricks on how to get coverage for a company and how to use that coverage to achieve your strategic objectives. Read more | | | |
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