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The Post-Antibiotic Era Is Here. Now What?

The war of resistance might be lost, but computational modeling is helping doctors and scientists predict and contain new bacterial threats.

3 hours ago

Wired

The Post-Antibiotic Era Is Here. Now What?

Wired

The World's Most Stunning Moths Will Set Your Heart Aflutter

Most people want moths to go away. Emmet Gowin wants to photograph them.

3 hours ago

Wired

The World's Most Stunning Moths Will Set Your Heart Aflutter

Wired

Live From The Berlin Marathon: You Can't Outrun Bad Weather

Heat, humidity, and slippery roads dashed the world record dreams at the Berlin Marathon

24 hours ago

Wired

Live From The Berlin Marathon: You Can't Outrun Bad Weather

Wired

The Blockbuster Showdown At This Year's Berlin Marathon

Can three elite runners, with a little help from Nike and Adidas, smash the marathon world record?

24 hours ago

Wired

The Blockbuster Showdown At This Year's Berlin Marathon

Wired

Sean Spicer's Emmys Appearance Tops This Week's News Roundup

Stop trying to make Sean Spicer happen.

2 days ago

Wired

Sean Spicer's Emmys Appearance Tops This Week's News Roundup

Wired

All the Ways Equifax Epically Bungled Its Breach Response

The Equifax breach that potentially exposed the personal information of 143 million people was bad. The company's response has almost been worse, if that's even possible.

2 days ago

Wired

All the Ways Equifax Epically Bungled Its Breach Response

Techcrunch

Uber CEO apologizes for "mistakes" after London license blow

Uber’s new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has written an open letter apologizing for “mistakes we’ve made” following the announcement on Friday by London’s transport regulator that it was withdrawing licensing from Uber — having deemed it is not “fit and proper” ...

3 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Uber CEO apologizes for "mistakes" after London license blow

Techcrunch

Microsoft launches new machine learning tools

Microsoft, just like many of its competitors, has gone all in on machine learning. That emphasis is on full display at the company’s Ignite conference this where, where the company today announced a number of new tools for developers who want to build new A.I. models and users who simply want to ...

10 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Microsoft launches new machine learning tools

Techcrunch

Microsoft finally starts doing something with LinkedIn by integrating it into Office 365

Last year, Microsoft bought LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, but even though the acquisition has long closed, Microsoft hasn’t yet done much with all of the data it gets from the social network. At its Ignite conference in Orlando, Florida, the company announced some first steps in integrating LinkedIn’s ...

12 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Microsoft finally starts doing something with LinkedIn by integrating it into Office 365

Techcrunch

Microsoft looks to the cloud to expand its security offerings

Ignite is Microsoft’s main annual conference for bringing together its enterprise users and IT community. It’s no surprise then, that security is one of the main topics at the event, with about almost 150 sessions dedicated to the topic. And just as unsurprisingly, Microsoft is also using ...

12 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Microsoft looks to the cloud to expand its security offerings

Techcrunch

Bing now means business

Unless you’re a regular Bing user, chances are you haven’t thought about Microsoft’s search engine all that much in recent years. While Microsoft has kept adding features to the service over time, its market share has remained pretty stable. At Microsoft’s Ignite conference in ...

13 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Bing now means business

Techcrunch

Microsoft 365 expands with new plans for schools and frontline workers

Microsoft today announced a major expansion to its Microsoft 365 offerings. The idea behind Microsoft 365 is to provide a single integrated solution that combines subscriptions to Office 365, Windows 10 and (depending on the plan you choose) the Enterprise Mobility and Security suite into a single bundle ...

13 minutes ago

Techcrunch

Microsoft 365 expands with new plans for schools and frontline workers

Fast Company

Dwayne Johnson just launched his own creative ad agency

Anyone who’s followed The Rock’s career knows never to underestimate the man known as Dwayne Johnson, or put his 6-foot-5, 258 lb frame in any specific career box. Otherwise you’d never have guessed the same guy who asked WWE fans if they could smell what he was cookin’ ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

Dwayne Johnson just launched his own creative ad agency

Fast Company

These To-Do List Methods Will Help You Finally Get Organized

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been on a mission to create the perfect to-do list. I’ve tested multiple apps from Evernote, Any.do, to Wunderlist. I’ve used physical and digital post-its. Earlier this year, I even attempted to keep a bullet journal. It didn’t last ...

5 hours ago

Fast Company

These To-Do List Methods Will Help You Finally Get Organized

Fast Company

HP says it’s made significant progress hiring with women in the workforce

The company has released its annual diversity report for 2016/2017, noting that it’s made strides in bringing more women into its workforce.

6 hours ago

Fast Company

HP says it’s made significant progress hiring with women in the workforce

Fast Company

These are the four essential skills CEOs of the future have to have

Changing technology, finding the most skilled workers, and maintaining a good work-life balance are going to be the fundamental challenges for CEOs in the coming years. According to Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post and Thrive Global, Bill George, longtime ...

6 hours ago

Fast Company

These are the four essential skills CEOs of the future have to have

Fast Company

Uber’s new CEO has apologized to London in an open letter

Uber’s new chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi, apologized in the letter, posted to Twitter, for the company’s “mistakes.” In the letter, Khosrowshahi said: “While Uber has revolutionized the way people move in cities around the world, it’s equally true that ...

6 hours ago

Fast Company

Uber’s new CEO has apologized to London in an open letter

Fast Company

“Lock him up”? Jared Kushner used private email for White House business

Trump’s son-in-law and senior presidential adviser has used a private email for carrying out official White House business, Politico reports. Aids who exchanged emails with Kushner at his private email address since Trump took office in January include former chief of staff Reince Priebus, former ...

7 hours ago

Fast Company

“Lock him up”? Jared Kushner used private email for White House business

Engadget

Swarovski's VR shopping app is glittery virtual decadence

Mixed reality apps from the likes of Ikea and Edmunds already let you preview things like furniture and cars. Keen to jump on an emerging trend, Swarovski is releasing its own VR experience. The crystal maker's bizarre new app offers a virtual shoppi...

13 minutes ago

Engadget

Swarovski's VR shopping app is glittery virtual decadence

Engadget

BBC is putting hundreds of classic TV programmes on iPlayer

Over the years, the BBC has amassed an astonishing trove of classic TV and radio programming. Accessing it all can be tricky, however, because iPlayer has always been positioned as more of a catchup service. Some series are available permanently, but...

25 minutes ago

Engadget

BBC is putting hundreds of classic TV programmes on iPlayer

Engadget

M&S is tentatively trialling one-hour food deliveries

Marks and Spencer (M&S) is finally coming round to the idea of letting customers order food online for speedy home delivery. The upmarket retailer has confirmed it's taking some very tentative first steps with a home delivery service in the Camde...

39 minutes ago

Engadget

M&S is tentatively trialling one-hour food deliveries

Engadget

Companies will use AI to stamp out electricity theft

Switching to efficient artificial intelligence systems has already saved Google a ton of money on its energy bills. And, it seems machine learning may also pose monetary benefits (of a different kind) for electricity providers. With power theft costi...

2 hours ago

Engadget

Companies will use AI to stamp out electricity theft

Engadget

Opera adds a shortcut to push videos straight to VR headsets

While Google's Chrome team has been busy working on VR web browsing, Opera decided to focus on solving one particular pain point: switching online videos between desktop browsers and VR headsets. Today, you can finally get a taste of Opera's solution...

3 hours ago

Engadget

Opera adds a shortcut to push videos straight to VR headsets

Engadget

The Morning After: Monday, September 25th 2017

Hey, good morning! Over the weekend, you might have missed Nintendo's attempt to refresh its first major smartphone game, Super Mario Run, and the smart planner by Moleskine that requires a little too much mental investment.

4 hours ago

Engadget

The Morning After: Monday, September 25th 2017

Venturebeat

Fusion Pharmaceuticals Completes Oversubscribed Series A Financing Totaling $46 Million USD to Develop Targeted Alpha Therapeutics

PRESS RELEASE: Fusion Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing targeted alpha-particle radiotherapeutics for treating cancer, today announced it has completed a second closing of its Series A financing, securing...

47 minutes ago

Venturebeat

Fusion Pharmaceuticals Completes Oversubscribed Series A Financing Totaling $46 Million USD to Develop Targeted Alpha Therapeutics

Venturebeat

Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft: The scramble to beat Apple, dominate hardware, and own your future

ANALYSIS: Google’s $1.1 billion acquihire of HTC’s Pixel team is just the latest example of a mega trend that is turning the tech industry upside down and has enormous consequences for the role technology plays in all of our lives. Put simply, the biggest of big tech companies have decided ...

3 hours ago

Venturebeat

Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft: The scramble to beat Apple, dominate hardware, and own your future

Venturebeat

Amazon to open its first AWS cloud region in the Middle East by 2019

Amazon's cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has announced its first data center region in the Middle East, with three availability zones planned for Bahrain by “early 2019,” according to the company. Launched in 2006, AWS serves companies of all sizes with cloud computing capabilities, ...

5 hours ago

Venturebeat

Amazon to open its first AWS cloud region in the Middle East by 2019

Venturebeat

SAP to buy customer identity software company Gigya

(Reuters) — SAP, Europe's biggest technology company, has agreed to buy U.S.-Israeli customer identity software company Gigya to strengthen its position in the booming market for online customer relationship marketing, the company said on Sunday. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, will ...

5 hours ago

Venturebeat

SAP to buy customer identity software company Gigya

Venturebeat

Moral programming will define the future of autonomous transportation

GUEST: Our lives are becoming more automated by the minute. Many everyday tasks have been relegated to smart software algorithms without consumers even noticing. For example, a staggering 70 percent of stock trading is now fully automated. This automation has already resulted in job loss, as well as ...

8 hours ago

Venturebeat

Moral programming will define the future of autonomous transportation

Venturebeat

A guide to common types of two-factor authentication

Two-factor authentication (or 2FA) is one of the biggest-bang-for-your-buck ways to improve the security of your online accounts. Luckily, it’s becoming much more common across the web. With often just a few clicks in a given account’s settings, 2FA adds an extra layer of security to your ...

10 hours ago

Venturebeat

A guide to common types of two-factor authentication

Ars Technica

Microsoft Ignite: Skype for Business merging into Teams

Microsoft continues its big push in cloud computing and machine learning.

12 minutes ago

Ars Technica

Microsoft Ignite: Skype for Business merging into Teams

Ars Technica

Microsoft Ignite: SQL Server 2017 for Linux goes live; or Windows, if you want

The preview Docker image has already been fetched 2 million times.

12 minutes ago

Ars Technica

Microsoft Ignite: SQL Server 2017 for Linux goes live; or Windows, if you want

Ars Technica

Microsoft makes play for next wave of computing with quantum computing toolkit

Microsoft wants to be ready for a quantum computing world.

13 minutes ago

Ars Technica

Microsoft makes play for next wave of computing with quantum computing toolkit

Ars Technica

Intel Coffee Lake i7-8700K brings six cores to the mainstream on October 5

Plus, i3 gets a bump up to quad-core, but prices are up across the board.

29 minutes ago

Ars Technica

Intel Coffee Lake i7-8700K brings six cores to the mainstream on October 5

Ars Technica

Liveblog: Satya Nadella lays out Microsoft's vision at Ignite this morning

At 9am ET on Monday, the Microsoft CEO will kick off the week-long Ignite conference.

45 minutes ago

Ars Technica

Liveblog: Satya Nadella lays out Microsoft's vision at Ignite this morning

Ars Technica

Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal had a long, complicated history

Emissions are a favorite compromise when considering price, miles per gallon, performance.

17 hours ago

Ars Technica

Volkswagen's emissions cheating scandal had a long, complicated history