Microsoft’s war chest is a dynamo. With revenues that rival the GDP of a small nation, it’s got enough cash on hand to buy whatever it wants. When it does, it just acquires another money-making machine. Its latest gadget?...
In the wake of a recent incident that wreaked havoc on the NPM package registry, a new group of maintainers is reestablishing the Faker project, making it a community effort. The previous maintainer had sabotaged the Faker NPM package...
An offshore wind turbine three miles off the coast of Block Island, Rhode Island, the site of the first offshore wind farm in the United States. That wind farm created 300 jobs; the Biden administration’s new...
Artificial intelligence helps build physical infrastructure like modular housing, skyscrapers, and factory floors. “…many problems that we wrestle with in all forms of engineering and design are very, very complex problems…those problems are beginning to reach the limits of...
Some local governments, like Broward County, Florida, launched free rapid test programs of their own before the federal government’s website went live on Tuesday. | Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images You can now order free Covid-19...
One of the interesting aspects of moving to a top-down, application-centric way of working is rethinking how we do networking. Much as the application model first abstracted away physical infrastructure with virtualization and is now using Kubernetes and similar...
Our new survey underlines the huge impact digital technology is having on organisations' sustainability agendas. As well as its benefits, digital can also pose risks to sustainability. Here are 3 areas for companies to consider as they...
The unique approach of the Rust programming language results in better code with fewer compromises than C, C++, Go, and the other languages you probably use. It also gets updated regularly, often every month.Where to download the latest Rust...
Most hacks require the victim to click on the wrong link or open the wrong attachment. But as so-called zero-click vulnerabilities—in which the target does nothing at all—are exploited more and more, Natalie Silvanovich of Google's Project Zero bug-hunting...
A Call of Duty display by Activision at the E3 gaming conference in 2017. | David McNew/Getty Images Microsoft-Activision is like Disney-Fox. Maybe bigger. Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for $69 billion. For those of...
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