Why did Jack Dorsey buy Jay-Z’s failed music service?
Here is the straight news headline: Square, the financial services company run by Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey, is buying Tidal, the streaming music service founded by Jay-Z.
And here is the question you,...
20 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2020
This is not a year we'll look back on fondly. It began with Australia on fire and ends with more than 1.5 million dead in a pandemic. But there have been bright points in...
14 Best Fitness Trackers (2023): Watches, Bands, and Rings
This year, Garmin released two high-end adventure watches: the Epix ($1,000) and this year's update to the Fenix series, the Fenix 7S Sapphire Solar (8/10, WIRED Recommends). The Epix has a 47-mm case and...
A Covid Vaccine Nears, Biden Gets to Work, and More News
The vaccine process nears a new phase, Biden plans his pandemic response, and the winter surge arrives. Here’s what you should know:
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Strandbags bolsters technology team with two new senior hires – iTnews
Strandbags has appointed Hannah Miller as its new head of online, reporting to CTO Stuart Freer, who himself joined the retailer in September.
Miller, who is now responsible for Strandbag's e-commerce capability, announced the move...
China faces major challenges in achieving goal of global technological pre-eminence | The Strategist...
China has overtaken the United States to top the world in the number of high-quality scientific papers it is producing.
Analysis by Japan’s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy indicates a marked improvement in...
How observability tools help with legacy software
You know what legacy software is. It’s what other people write and what other people use. Right? Wrong. “The minute you ship code, you have legacy software,” argues Jean Yang, founder and CEO of...
Ignite 2020: Introducing Azure Communication Services
Microsoft Teams’ growth has exploded as the COVID-19 pandemic has forced more and more companies to shift to home working and virtual meetings. With more than 5 billion daily meeting minutes, Teams relies heavily...
Take a look at Azure Monitor
Cloud-native apps need a lot of monitoring. It’s not that they’re inherently unstable, but there are issues of concurrency and consistency in distributed application development that can give rise to bugs that are hard...
Will the Metaverse Live Up to the Hype? Game Developers Aren’t Impressed
The perfect version of the metaverse, to hear tech heads like Mark Zuckerberg tell it, marries social media, entertainment, and—most exciting of all—meetings in one pristine virtual space. Long ago foretold in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash,...