Coronavirus tracing apps can save lives even with low adoption rates
Hereccs a life-or-death question: Do apps that notify people of potential exposure to the coronavirus help save lives, or are they a waste of...
GitHub opens container registry
GitHub has unveiled the GitHub Container Registry, a service designed to improve how containers are handled within GitHub Packages for package management.
Now in a...
Larry Ellison has abruptly shut down the foundation he spent years setting up
Larry Ellison is abruptly shutting down the work of his charitable foundation, Recode has learned, yet another whiplash moment in the philanthropic history of...
The FBI Botched Its DNC Hack Warning in 2016—but Says It Won’t Next Time
Even so, the growth in the sheer number of hacking incidents means the FBI is notifying far more victims than in the past, says...
VORAGO Technologies signs up for BrainChip’s Akida early access program – Small Caps
Technology company BrainChip (ASX: BRN) has unveiled a new partnership with US-based counterpart VORAGO Technologies as part of a collaboration intended to support...
The new Apple-Google contact tracing tool finally seems useful
The Apple-Google exposure notification tool is getting a major upgrade. The two companies just announced the debut of Exposure Notifications Express, which will...
Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 million donation to protect elections must overcome Facebook’s past
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are donating $300 million to protect American elections. It is one of the couple’s largest-ever single gifts,...
A Grim Reality of Reopening: More Mold
Last month, I took a road trip to North Carolina. The area had just experienced an extremely wet and rainy spring, and the Airbnb...
Dealing with sovereign data in the cloud
It’s Friday, and you’re about to close your laptop and go to happy hour, when you get an urgent e-mail stating that due to...
California’s air conditioner-driven blackouts are only the start
As record-breaking heat waves baked Californians last month, the collective strain of millions of air conditioners forced the state’s grid operators to plunge hundreds...
