An experimental Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer and German drug developer BioNTech (BNT) seems to be working very well, according to early trial data. The announcement, made on Monday, has enormous implications. If we end up with a few vaccines...
After more than a year in development, Microsoft released its .NET 5 software development platform on Tuesday, November 10, emphasizing unification of the platform and introducing the C# 9 and F# 5 programming languages.Described as the first release in...
On March 19, 2019, Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest producers of aluminum, faced a systemic, worldwide network ransomware attack. Its response strategy was built upon two principles: pay no ransom, and admit the breach. In this session, you’ll hear directly from Halvor Molland, senior...
A supporter of President Trump at a Republican watch party in New Hudson, Michigan, on November 3. | Seth Herald/AFP via Getty Images America’s polarization problem is bigger than we thought it would be. ...
Activists protest a new Amazon warehouse in France in June 2020. | Pascal Guyot/AFP via Getty Images The EU’s competition commission says the tech giant uses non-public data from its own merchants to compete against them unfairly....
BEIJING, Nov. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Jump on JD.com on Nov. 11 for Singles’ Day (or what many now call “eleven eleven”) and you’ll experience a shopping carnival unlike any other.A Media Snippet accompanying this announcement is available...
With the news that a Covid-19 vaccine could be arriving soon, misinformation about vaccines is likely to surge. | Matteo Rossetti/Archivio Matteo Rossetti/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are bracing for more misinformation. ...
On midnight of October 26, Facebook stopped accepting all new advertisements about “social issues, elections or politics in the US.” The intention was to prevent Facebook from being overwhelmed by a blitz of last minute ads that would require...
JetBrains has published its first “milestone” release of Jetpack Compose for Desktop. Based on Google’s Jetpack Compose toolkit for Android UI development, the JetBrains framework provides a declarative and reactive approach to building UIs with Kotlin.With an API inspired by...
Weren't we all here just a couple weeks ago? Hanging around on the internet waiting for Apple to show off some new hardware?Indeed, we were. Apple has already staged two hardware release events this fall: one for the Apple...


















