Coronavirus cases rise dramatically, drugmakers prepare for distribution, and the pandemic collides with the upcoming election. Here’s what you should know: Want to receive this weekly roundup and other coronavirus news? Sign up here!HeadlinesCoronavirus cases surge across the US...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sits for testimony during the Section 230 Senate hearing this week. | Greg Nash/AFP The company says it has mostly fixed the “technical problems” that prevented some Biden and Trump ads from running....
Big Tech’s earnings aren’t noticing the pandemic. | Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images Despite antitrust investigations and a recession, Big Tech is doing great. Despite a pandemic that’s shocked the entire economy and impending antitrust lawsuits,...
Publicly traded wave energy developer, Eco Wave Power, announces today the signing of an MOU with MSMART Future Technology, as the basis for the development of a 50MW wave energy array in Vietnam.The collaboration between the parties shall be...
Edge computing is getting a great deal of attention now, and for good reason. Cloud architecture requires that some processing be placed closest to the point of data consumption. Think computing systems in your car, industrial robots, and now...
Microsoft is working on a new extensibility model for its signature Visual Studio IDE, with the goals of improving the reliability of extensions and making them easier to write. Extensions are to be supported locally and in the cloud...
American hospitals are being targeted in a wave of ransomware attacks as covid-19 infections in the US break records and push the country’s health infrastructure to the brink. As reports emerge of attacks that interrupted healthcare in at least...
In the Cell paper, researchers led by Egli injected Crispr into human sperm from a donor with a blindness-causing mutation in a gene called EYS2 that resides on the long arm of chromosome 6. Once inside, Crispr made cuts...
The developers of Deno, which is positioned as a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript and rival to Node.js, have published Deno 1.5, a new version of the platform that improves bundling and REPL capabilities.The deno bundle command in Deno 1.5 is...
Hospitals may be the targets of ransomware attacks that will take their systems offline and possibly compromise patient care. | Win McNamee/Getty Images A new wave of ransomware attacks is “imminent,” according to US authorities. ...




















