Apple iPad for $299 ($30 off): It's nice to have an iPad around the house. They're great for email, streaming TV, reading, and a bunch of other tasks. There are fancier versions, but the standard iPad is likely good...
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In America, at least 17 people a day die waiting for an organ transplant. But instead of waiting for a donor to die, what if we could someday grow our own organs? Last week, six years after NASA announced...
Lina Khan, who has been a strong advocate for breaking up Big Tech companies, was recently appointed as chair of the FTC. | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images Industry groups are ramping up their fight...
Overengineering is the process of designing a product with more features than necessary. When deployed for its intended use, the product is unnecessarily complex, inefficient, or both. The increased costs, risks, and/or complexities of the system will eventually result in...
Jun 19th 2021EVERY BUSINESS cycle, as it runs out of puff, reveals problems that seem obvious in hindsight. Twenty years ago, when stockmarkets slumped, accounting frauds came to light at Enron, an energy-trading firm, and WorldCom, a telecoms outfit....
The Eclipse Foundation has formed a working group to ensure the continued evolution and sustainability of the popular Eclipse IDE suite of technologies. In conjunction, a new quarterly release of the IDE, supporting the latest version of standard Java,...
Shop Safely and Smartly: Use common sense when shopping. If a price is too good to be true, you don't recognize a brand, an item doesn't have many reviews (or too many five-star reviews), or a seller has just...
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is giving her privacy agency bill another try. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The FTC currently enforces federal privacy laws. Gillibrand doesn’t think it’s enough. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is introducing a...
If you are building applications today, you are probably familiar with the microservices model: Rather than building big monolithic applications, we break services down into isolated components that we can independently update or change over time. Microservices deployments then...


















