A new headset could revolutionize communication for locked-in individuals, people with ALS, and anyone who has suffered an injury that makes communication more difficult. In fact, research in this area is proceeding along several different paths. It may not be much longer before real-time speech communication is possible again …
Read More »HP Enterprise Buys Supercomputer Pioneer Cray for $1.3B
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will be purchasing Cray to the tune of $1.3B. The deal represents a 17 percent premium over Cray’s current stock price. Cray, of course, is Cray — one of the leading companies in supercomputing, though its own role in that process has transformed over the …
Read More »Announcing TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise this September in San Francisco
Of the many categories in the tech world, none is more ferociously competitive than enterprise. For decades, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce, to name a few of the giants, have battled to deliver the tools businesses want to become more productive and competitive. That market is closing …
Read More »Adobe’s Big Push to Make Lightroom Easier to Learn and Use
Whenever I’m teaching Adobe’s Lightroom to photographers in a workshop or on safari, the most common question I get isn’t about some missing feature. It’s about getting a good understanding of the tools that are available and how best to use them. For 2019, Adobe has put that concern …
Read More »Google says no core update or infrastructure changes have occurred despite chatter
A Google spokesperson has confirmed with Search Engine Land that Google has not pushed out a new core search update and no infrastructure changes were pushed out around March 2019 core update or the more recent de-indexing bugs that happened last month. No Google core update. There was some chatter last …
Read More »Google brings personalized Shopping, local inventory and better checkout to U.S.
In late March, Google rolled out a redesigned shopping destination in France. That turns out to have been a preview of the new global Google.com shopping experience being announced Tuesday at Google Marketing Live. Google Shopping originally launched as Froogle in 2002, then evolved into Google Product Search and ultimately …
Read More »New England Revolution Has Fired GM Mike Burns
The New England Revolution fired general manager Mike Burns. Burns, a former defender on the United States mens national team, is from Marlborough, Mass. and was on the inaugural 1996 New England Revolution roster. As an original Revolution player and throughout his time with the clubs front office, Michael has …
Read More »Trendy luggage brand Away packs on $100M, rolls past $1.4B valuation
Away‘s new lofty valuation proves how far you can get with excellent branding. The direct-to-consumer seller of Instagrammable luggage has collected $100 million in Series D funding at a $1.4 billion valuation in a round led by Wellington Management, with support from Baillie Gifford, Lone Pine Capital and Global …
Read More »Moon is Still Tectonically Active, Researchers Say
In 2010, an analysis of images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) found that the Moon shriveled like a raisin as its interior cooled, leaving behind thousands of cliffs called thrust faults on the lunar surface. A new analysis of archival data from seismometers deployed during Apollo missions gives the …
Read More »Scientists Assemble Pan-Genome of Cultivated Tomato and Its Wild Relatives
An international team of researchers led by Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and the U.S. Department of Agriculture- Agricultural Research Service has created a pan-genome that captures all of the genetic information of 725 cultivated and wild tomatoes, establishing a resource that promises to help breeders develop more flavorful …
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