NEW YORK – Suddenly it was 20 years. Once again, the living victims of the 9/11 attacks – the walking wounded who lost or survived friends and relatives and now wonder why – came back to what we once called Ground Zero. They mourned on a morning eerily similar to Tuesday in 2001 – a … Read more
The Nintendo Switch has no problem playing against the PlayStation 5 in its home turf in Japan … far from it. Game Data Library, Axios, and IGN report that every game on Famitsu’s August 8th weekly top 30 charts was a Switch title, from Super Mario Maker 2 at number 30 to Minecraft at the … Read more
Charlie Bell (LinkedIn Photo) Charlie Bell, a member of Amazon’s Senior Leadership Team and long-standing lynchpin of the company’s cloud business, is leaving the company after more than 23 years. His departure, reported by The Information and confirmed by CNBC, is the latest change in the Amazon Web Services leadership team as Andy Jassy, longtime … Read more
Last month, Facebook’s board of directors reprimanded the company for losing a key policy for three years. At the center of the verdict was an Instagram post about Abdullah Öcalan calling for people to speak about his political imprisonment. Öcalan is a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party. The PKK is a Kurdish militia … Read more
More contributions from this contributor Factories don’t die taking your order and other hardware startups Cooperation with a Chinese factory, Hardware Entrepreneur Edition China’s e-commerce and The industrial ecosystem is as different from the western world as its culture. It took the country decades to earn its reputation as the world’s factory, but it now … Read more
Am 17. Juli 1996 explodierte eine Boeing 747 in der Luft vor der Küste von Long Island. Der Flug von New York City nach Rom mit Zwischenstopp in Paris brach auseinander und stürzte ins Meer. Die 230 Menschen an Bord von Trans World Airlines Flug 800 kamen ums Leben. So schnell das Wrack in den … Read more
The father crossed China on a motorcycle for almost 24 years. With banners showing photos of a two-year-old boy flying off his bike, he traveled more than 300,000 miles with a single purpose: to find his kidnapped son. This week the search for Guo Gangtang finally ended. He and his wife were reunited with their … Read more
Ten years after its first release, Teenage Engineering is still finding ways to surprise and delight with the OP-1. On Wednesday the company released a software update for the popular synthesizer that supports USB audio streaming. In short, it means it’s much easier to plug the OP-1 into your favorite digital audio workstation and start … Read more
Icosavax creates virus-like particles using technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. (Icosavax photo) Seattle-based Icosavax filed for an IPO just four years after it started at the University of Washington. The company, a spin-out of the UW’s Institute for Protein Design, develops vaccines that resemble naturally occurring viruses. Icosavax initiated … Read more
A Texan woman can’t remember renting a VHS tape 22 years ago – let alone not returning it – and closing the place where she rented it more than a decade ago. But the unreturned tape resulted in her being charged with a crime. Although the case was dismissed and thrown out on Wednesday, Caron … Read more