Month: September 2021

Emma Court / Bloomberg: TrialSpark, which wants to leverage its clinical trials management software into drug discovery, closed $156M Series C at a $1B+ valuation earlier this year  —  – TrialSpark expands from clinical trials into developing drugs  — Company raised $156 million, is valued at more than $1 billion Source link

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Educational institutions are on pace for a record year of ransomware attacks in 2021, with K-12 schools the primary targets. While contributing to better educational outcomes, successful one-device-per-student and learn-from-anywhere programs have expanded the attack surface for cyber threats of […]

Apple Watch Series 7 was announced at Apple’s September special event along with the iPhone 13 lineup and the new iPad models. However, unlike its siblings, Apple Watch Series 7 is not available to customers – and there’s no word from Apple on when it will be. According to Jon Prosser, the next-generation Apple Watch […]

Enlarge / Apple’s AirTags—as seen clipped to a backpack, above—allow users to attempt to find their own device via location rebroadcast from other Apple users. If all else fails, the user can enable a “Lost mode” intended to display their phone number when a finder scans the missing AirTag. The hits keep coming to Apple’s […]

Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Jeff BezosJeffrey (Jeff) Preston BezosMusk says he’s sending Bezos silver medal after retaking world’s richest person designation Why Democrats opposing Biden’s tax plan have it wrong Equilibrium/Sustainability — Presented by The American Petroleum Institute — Climate change turning US into coffee country MORE, has allegedly fostered a toxic […]

Mike Davies, director of Intel’s Neuromorphic Computing Lab, explains the company’s efforts in this area. And with the launch of a new neuromorphic chip this week, he talked Ars through the updates. Despite their name, neural networks are only distantly related to the sorts of things you’d find in a brain. While their organization and […]

A public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for the Microsoft Azure Active Directory credentials brute-forcing flaw discovered by Secureworks and first reported by Ars. The exploit enables anyone to perform both username enumeration and password brute-forcing on vulnerable Azure servers. Although Microsoft had initially called the Autologon mechanism a “design” choice, it appears, the […]

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  BlueStacks made its name getting Android games to run on the PC. And now it is releasing BlueStacks X, which is a free cloud-based gaming streaming service for mobile games. The Palo Alto, California-based company describes BlueStacks […]

Smart lighting is an easy way to create some ambiance in a room and change the feel of the space. It comes in many forms nowadays, from smart bulbs and light strips to all kinds of oddly shaped lamps. The Govee Flow Pro is one such RGB accessory that’s designed to flank a TV or […]

A WIRED investigation has found 45 federal criminal cases that cite Google geolocation data to place suspects inside the US Capitol during the January 6 riot. Over 600 people have now been arrested, and at least 185 charged, in connection with the Capitol breach. Geofence warrants helped build cases against dozens of them.Photograph: Bill Clark/Getty […]

Bloomberg: Employees at 11 video game companies say their teams had a 4K Switch dev kit, despite sources saying a 4K Nintendo console won’t go on sale until late 2022  —  At least 11 companies, including Zynga, have tools from Nintendo to make 4K Switch games.  —  Many people were surprised to learn … Source […]

Storage devices are getting smaller and higher-capacity each year, and nothing demonstrates that more than Kingston’s DataTraveler Max line of USB-C flash drives. The drives are available in 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB capacities, with impressively fast speeds to match, rated at 1,000MB/s read speeds and 900MB/s write speeds. These drives certainly have what it takes […]

The artist behind one of the biggest sales in this landmark year for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has done it again. Migwashere and partners made another seismic ripple in the NFTs universe on September 12, 2021, when they launched the Sneaky Vampire Syndicate (SVS). Sneaky Vampire Syndicate Launches Non-Fungible Tokens Collection SVS features a collection of […]

An Instagram star reportedly struggled to effectively use the more than $7 million he had raised to help evacuate Afghan civilians amid the Taliban’s takeover of the country. The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that, following an in-depth examination, “Operation Flyaway,” which is headed by Instagram star Tommy Marcus, who posts as “Quentin Quarantino,” was not […]

First protein folding, now weather forecasting: London-based AI firm DeepMind is continuing its run applying deep learning to hard science problems. Working with the Met Office, the UK’s national weather service, DeepMind has developed a deep-learning tool called DGMR that can accurately predict the likelihood of rain in the next 90 minutes—one of weather forecasting’s toughest […]