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There are some additions to the TechCrunch team that I’m happy to announce. First, Kirsten Korosec, who has been with us for more than two years, was promoted to Transportation Editor. Kirsten has done amazing work, helping to elevate our footh.....»»
Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security
Azure looks like a house of cards collapsing due to exploits and vulnerabilities. Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) Microsoft has once again come under blistering criticism for the security practices of Azure.....»»
Researchers identify oldest known species of swimming jellyfish
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) announces the oldest swimming jellyfish in the fossil record with the newly named Burgessomedusa phasmiformis. These findings are announced in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B......»»
Reed Jobs" Yosemite plans using venture capitalism to fight cancer
Reed Jobs, son of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, has launched Yosemite, a $200M venture capital firm taking aim at cancer treatments.Reed Jobs [Emerson Collective]The 31-year-old Reed Jobs' creation, named after the national park where his parents got.....»»
A new millipede species is crawling under LA. It"s blind, glassy and has 486 legs
The City of Angels, a metropolis of freeways and traffic, has a newly discovered species named in its honor: The Los Angeles Thread Millipede......»»
Stephen Amell and Heels cast on season 2, pro wrestling, and good storytelling
In an interview with Digital Trends, Stephen Amell, Alexander Ludwig, and Mary McCormack discuss Heels season 2 and why good storytelling conquers all......»»
Researchers find new species of Australian shark
Last year, scientists from our Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) caught a species of shark new to science. That specimen became the holotype of a newly named species, the reference specimen for the new scientific name......»»
CASETiFY refreshes Inside Out collection with new cases that show off your iPhone 14’s internals
CASETiFY is launching a new iPhone 14 collection of cases and accessories today that bring the internal designs of Apple’s newest smartphone to the surface. The new updates to the Inside Out collection are as fittingly named as possible, wrapping.....»»
Asbury Q2 net income slips 2.5%, but decline much less than Q1 despite fewer stores
Asbury Automotive Group Inc.'s net income declined 2.5 percent and its revenue was down 5.3 percent during a second quarter that drew from fewer locations than a year earlier......»»
SeqCode provides a path to name uncultivated prokaryotes
Most prokaryotes have never been isolated in pure culture and cannot be named under the International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP). However, many studies have described uncultured bacteria and archaea though metagenome-assembled genome.....»»
Elon Musk: Time to say goodbye to Twitter bird logo
The owner of the social media site says he wants to replace the bird logo, named Larry, with an "X"......»»
Cerebras unveils world’s largest AI training supercomputer with 54M cores
Cerebras Systems, the AI accelerator pioneer, and UAE-based technology holding group G42, have unveiled the world’s largest supercomputer for AI training, named Condor Galaxy. The network of nine interconnected supercomputers promises to reduce.....»»
2023 Automotive Hall of Fame members honored
Honorees included GM CEO Mary Barra, Gentex co-founder Fred Bauer, racer Juan Manuel Fangio, Honda co-founder Takeo Fujisawa, Ford designer McKinley Thompson Jr. and Hot Wheels designer Larry Wood......»»
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon
Meta promised to make Threads compatible with W3C open standard for social media. Enlarge (credit: Jacqui VanLiew/Wired) Days after Meta launched its new app, Threads, this month, a software engineer at the company named.....»»
How a cloud flaw gave Chinese spies a key to Microsoft’s kingdom
Hackers stole a cryptographic key that let them forge user identities and slip past defenses. Enlarge (credit: Drew Angerer | Getty Images) For most IT professionals, the move to the cloud has been a godsend. Instead of.....»»
No more NUC: Intel’s weirdly named mini PCs seem to be going away
Intel has exited several side-businesses as it tries to stop losing money. Enlarge / A stack of Intel's NUC mini PCs. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Since 2012, Intel has designed and sold its own lineup of mini PCs. The Ne.....»»
5 underrated movies you should check out in July 2023
Here are five smaller movies hitting theaters and digital platforms this month that aren't named Barbie or Oppenheimer......»»
Astronomers spot an exoplanet creating spiral arms around its star
Astronomers investigated a giant exoplanet named MWC 758c which seems to be forming the spiral arms around its host star......»»
Asteroid named after Portuguese astrophysicist
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named an asteroid after Pedro Machado, astrophysicist at Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA), at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). Along with the nomination of.....»»
"Unimaginable": Austria"s highest paradise feels heat of climate change
Ever since Herbert Hoegl and his wife first drove up the majestic Grossglockner High Alpine Road, named after Austria's highest mountain, the breathtaking vistas that the route offers have been imprinted on their minds......»»
Polarized imaging of dynamic light scattering to measure nanoparticle size, morphology, and distributions
A team of researchers proposed a fast and convenient method called polarized imaging dynamic light scattering (PIDLS) that quantitively evaluates nanoparticle size, morphology and distribution at the same time. A dimensionless quantity, named optical.....»»