Stephen Hawking, the renowned British scientist known for his work on black holes and cosmology, died at 76 in Cambridge. Diagnosed with motor neurone disease at 22, he defied expectations, becoming a celebrated author and popular figure. Tributes pour in, recognizing his brilliance, humor, and impact on science.
On Tuesday, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, a heavy-lift vehicle in development since 2011, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rocket carried a red Roadster with a dummy towards Mars. Two of the three first-stage boosters were recovered, with the third's status pending.
Paul Allen, Microsoft's co-founder, died in Seattle at age 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Allen's sister, Jody, described him as a remarkable individual. He owned the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trailblazers and supported research and Seattle's cultural institutions through Vulcan Inc.
Microsoft is reportedly acquiring GitHub, a popular code-repository company. The deal, potentially announced as soon as Monday, marks a return to Microsoft's roots and a shift from its position a decade ago.
Red Hat announced on Oct 28, 2018 an agreement to join IBM, remaining a distinct unit. CEO Jim Whitehurst and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty will hold a company meeting on Oct 29. The acquisition aims to scale Red Hat's open-source innovation and hybrid cloud solutions.
This website employs Anubis, a Proof-of-Work system, to combat aggressive AI scraping that causes downtime. Anubis makes scraping expensive, acting as a temporary solution while more sophisticated headless browser fingerprinting methods are developed for better user experience.
In 2015, Amazon considered acquiring Elemental Technologies, an Oregon-based video compression software company with government contracts. AWS hired a third-party to assess Elemental's security, focusing on servers assembled by Super Micro Computer in San Jose. The servers were sent to Ontario, Canada for testing.
In Tempe, Arizona, Elaine Herzberg, 49, was killed by a self-driving Uber car on Sunday night. The Volvo SUV was in autonomous mode with an operator present. Uber has suspended North American autonomous vehicle testing. The incident is under investigation.
Due to Chrome's new policy, every time a user logs into a Google property, Chrome automatically signs the browser into the Google account. The author argues this change, implemented around September 2018, lacks clear rationale, impacts privacy, and contradicts Google's privacy policies.
