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The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed the way we experience urban spaces. In no time at all, there was a mass migration to the suburbs in densely populated city centers as people were looking for greener and larger spaces. If the pandemic is an indication of the challenges of a changing climate, what lessons can … Read more
Check out the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 20, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates in your inbox every Sunday by subscribing to our weekly GeekWire email newsletter. The most popular stories on GeekWire Just like Dungeons … Read more
Search and rescue teams are searching for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South apartment building on June 27 in Surfside, Florida. Giorgio Viera / AFP / Getty Images A Surfside City official assured residents of Champlain Towers South at a meeting in November 2018 that their building was “in very good … Read more
In the past few years we’ve seen a growing trend for YouTubers to adopt digital and social media, not just as a supplement to your media presence, but also as a cornerstone of your personal brand. The pandemic has certainly accelerated trends in the creator economy. Many well-known artists and personalities had to postpone concerts … Read more
SURFSIDE, Florida – Nine people are confirmed dead and at least 150 are missing as the arduous and dangerous search for survivors of a condo collapse continued in this coastal city north of Miami Beach on Sunday. Accompanied by dogs trained to find both people and bodies, the searchers dug a 12-meter-deep trench through the … Read more
Operating system developers offer code signing to help you avoid hostile software, but Microsoft may have inadvertently broken the trust that signing is designed to create. According to BleepingComputer, Microsoft has confirmed that it has signed Netfilter, a third-party driver for Windows that contains rootkit malware that has been circulating in the gaming community. It … Read more
In 1885 a 22-year-old Dutch woman named Johanna Bonger met Theo van Gogh, the artist’s younger brother. He asked her to marry him after only two meetings. In 1888, a year and a half after his proposal, she agreed. It was Paris in the Belle Epoque: art, theater, intellectuals, the streets of their Pigalle district … Read more
Another day, another deal. Keeping up with the tide of acquisitions, IPOs, SPACs, and venture capital these days is no easy task. In fact, the IPO dollar volume for 2021 has already reached $ 171 billion, surpassing the record sums of last year. The same goes for mergers and acquisitions, with record levels of transaction … Read more
Daniel Groves was on vacation with his family in Surfside and was living on the second floor of a hotel next to the Champlain Towers when the collapse occurred. The family “fell asleep” when the collapse occurred around 1:20 am, he said. “It literally sounded like a bomb, like it was the loudest thing I’ve … Read more
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices … Read more