Marc Benioff is a true pioneer of cloud computing; under his leadership, Salesforce is the #1 provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software globally. Benioff has been named Innovator of the Decade by Forbes, one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review, and one of the World’s 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune. Hear […]
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The “staged rollout” of gene-modified babies could start with sickle-cell disease
In a high-level report precipitated by the birth of CRISPR babies in China in 2018, scientists say the technology’s next medical use should be narrowly restricted to prospective parents who can’t otherwise have a healthy child, such as Black couples who both have sickle-cell disease. The 200-plus-page report, from the US National Academies and the […]
Facebook Messenger Limits Message Forwarding to Five People or Groups
In a bid to combat misinformation and spread of fake news, Facebook is now limiting forwarding messages on Facebook Messenger to five people or groups. Facebook-owned WhatsApp had launched a similar feature in 2018. The feature was initially available in India and then extended globally. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 Beta 7: What’s New
Apple today released the seventh beta of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 to developers. With the company expected to release iOS 14 later this month, the latest beta builds of the OS are not packing any major changes. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Only iPhone 12 Pro Max Could Support mmWave 5G Network, Launch in Three Countries
A new report from Fast Company claims that Apple will be adding mmWave 5G support to only the top-end iPhone 12 Pro Max model, with all other iPhone 12 models featuring sub-6GHz connectivity. Continue reading → Powered by WPeMatico
Ideas wanted: Help make the world’s biggest covid-19 symptom database useful
The news: Since April, the Delphi research group at Carnegie Mellon University has been compiling one of the world’s largest databases for covid-19 symptom tracking. Now it’s launching a new challenge with Facebook and other partners to crowdsource data projects for improving the nation’s pandemic response. The data: The Delphi group, one of the best […]
How an overload of riot porn is driving conflict in the streets
When Kyle Rittenhouse shot and murdered protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, it wasn’t just the act of a lone vigilante; it was a direct consequence of white militia groups’ organizing on social media. Since June, right-wing media makers have recorded and circulated videos of violent altercations at protests in cities including New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Los […]
Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet
Sara Garner had a nagging feeling something wasn’t quite right. A software engineer, she was revamping her personal site, but it just didn’t feel like her. Sure, it had the requisite links to her social media and her professional work, but it didn’t really reflect her personality. So she created a page focused on museums, […]
A brief history of Chinese-American espionage entanglements
Since the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, intelligence services in both Beijing and Washington have vied to uncover secrets in one another’s countries, and to safeguard their own secrets, in pursuit of military, economic, and technological advantage. Many bona fide spies on both sides have been caught; many innocents have been […]
Featured Session: Global Technology for Data in the Cloud
2020 has brought global disruption of societies, customer behavior, and economies. The businesses that survive and thrive will need to make fast, smart decisions about how to pivot in today’s world. In this session, you’ll hear from Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, global vice president for block and object storage at Amazon Web Services, about how those smart […]