The only obvious countermove to this problem is to put investigators off the trail by going after targets that aren’t really of interest. But that causes its own issues: raising the volume of activity vastly increases the chances of...
Taking aim at competitors including Amazon Aurora and Snowflake, Oracle has enhanced the MySQL HeatWave in-memory query accelerator in the Oracle Cloud’s MySQL Database Service by leveraging advanced machine learning. But Oracle insists the improvements do not mean the...
In North America and many other parts of the world, high-speed 5G mobile data networks dangled just out of reach for years. But as 5G coverage becomes ubiquitous, the rollout comes with an important caveat. Even if your phone...
Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The privacy-first company’s invasive approach isn’t going over well with many. Apple, the company that proudly touted its user privacy bona fides in its recent iOS 15...
In its recently published 2020 ESG Report, Australian coal mining major Yancoal, majority owned by China’s Yanzhou Coal Mining Company, says it undertook several occupational health pilot projects in 2020 across various operations. A key pilot project included the...
As the world heats up, so too does pressure on Australia to move beyond its long-running climate policy wars and do more to help limit global warming. The planet is poised to be 1.5C warmer, compared with pre-industrial levels,...
The UN report found that greenhouse gases are likely to drive worldwide temperatures at least 1.5 ˚C above preindustrial conditions within the next 20 years, fueling more common and more severe heat waves, floods, and droughts. Once that happens,...
JetBrains has released version 2021.2 of its IntelliJ IDEA integrated development environment for JVM languages. The upgrade emphasizes capabilities such as project analysis and easier management of build system dependencies. Downloadable from jetbrains.com, IntelliJ IDEA 2021.2 was released on July...
I love running for the sole reason you can do it anywhere. I've run in foreign cities, using the time to explore back alleys and lesser-known monuments. In total, I’ve completed 13 marathons, including Boston, New York, and Chicago....
HomePod Ivan Bandura via Unsplash Systems that can handle repetitive tasks have supported global economies for generations. But systems that can handle conversations and interactions? Those have felt impossible, due to the complexity of...


















