Hola,

It’s difficult in our volatile and fast-moving world to properly assess risk.

Various threats — not limited to disease and disasters — have dominated news headlines this summer. Unfortunately, one threat doesn’t wait for the others to be neutralized before coming into play (in fact, they tend to feed off each other).

The top 11 such cyber risks, and what companies might watch for and do, get sober analysis in our newest cybersecurity report.

The hospital of the future

Hospitals are being reimagined amid the Covid-19 crisis, as new digital tools help providers address existing healthcare system inefficiencies and streamline care.

From patient monitoring to diagnostics to emergencies, clients can see 90+ companies reshaping healthcare delivery.

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JPMorgan had to send some of its traders home last week after an employee tested positive for Covid-19.

Take a look at what the path to safer office reopenings may look like here.

$7.5B: Microsoft is to buy ZeniMax Media, the owner of games studio Bethesda, for $7.5B. The acquisition will be one of the tech giant’s biggest purchases ever, but it still pales in size compared to the $26B it paid for LinkedIn in 2016. See more of big tech’s billion-dollar acquisitions in this infographic. 

+2 unicorns: Sneaker marketplace GOAT and text message marketing platform Attentive became unicorns after raising at $1B+ valuations. Both companies were included in our 2020 Future Unicorn cohort, made in partnership with Fast Company. See the rest of the predictions here.
 

-56%: Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that the automaker is developing a new battery that will reduce the cost per kilowatt hour of its cells by 56%. The new tech could help reduce the cost of electric vehicles and boost their range. We dig into Musk’s plans to disrupt auto and 7 other industries in this report. 

200 merchants: Shopify said that a data breach affected about 200 merchants on its platform, and that the incident was traced to nefarious employees. Insiders are commonly implicated in data breaches. We discuss emerging tech that could help combat this type of insider threat, like anomalous behavior detection, in our 2020 Cyber Defenders report.

9%: Retailer Party City said that it’s planning to open 25 Halloween-themed pop-up stores this year — just 9% of last year’s total. Stores are continuing to make significant adjustments in response to the pandemic. Read about emerging trends in e-commerce, supply chain, on-demand delivery, and more in our State Of Retail Tech H1’20 Report.

The Helsinki airport is hiring a team of dogs to sniff out potentially sick travelers from the sweat on their skin. 

Equipped with a sense of smell 10,000 times more accurate than humans', canines can detect Covid-19 with as few as 10 molecules vs. the standard 18M that tests require, according to University of Helsinki researchers. 

The airport will soon deploy dogs in shifts of 4. Passengers will be required to rub their skin with a test wipe, which will then be given to the dog to smell in an isolated booth to prevent direct contact and ensure anonymity.   

Have a great rest of the week.

Marcelo