If you’re a new Xbox XS owner thanks to the Black Friday and Cyber Week deals, or if you’re gifting one to someone for the holidays, you’re going to want to take this great shortcut…
Normally, antibodies are protective proteins produced by our immune systems to fight bacteria or viruses. Their strength comes from their specificity—when you get ill, B cells in your immune system undergo an exquisitely precise process…
With two episodes left to go, Dune: Prophecy still has a lot of question marks floating through its plot. We know where things will stand 10,000 years in the future—but how is the Sisterhood going…
A startup out of Turkey that has built a hit casual mobile game where you have to find cats in Where’s Wally-style drawings of increasing complexity has found something else: $18 million in funding. Agave…
Alphabet’s CapitalG-backed Aye Finance, a lender focused on India’s micro, small, and medium enterprises, is seeking to raise $171 million from its initial public offering, it disclosed in a filing Tuesday. The offering comprises a…
Whenever a leader in technology comes out publicly warning of the potential dangers of artificial intelligence—or perhaps “superintelligence”—it is important to remember they are also on the other side selling the solution. We have already…
A diarrhea-causing superbug is stirring up trouble in Los Angeles. Researchers have tracked down a worrying new strain of Shigella bacteria in the area—one that can resist almost every antibiotic thrown at it. Scientists at…
Welcome to WordPress! What is your opinion of pineapple on pizza? Answer wisely or you will be unable to login. Over the weekend, WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic Matt Mullenweg inserted a little joke…
Hexa, a Paris-based startup studio that has launched dozens of B2B software companies, is sharing a list of its next batch of projects that are soon going to become independent startups. Hexa originally started its…
Tyme Group, a South African-born fintech operating in the African country and the Philippines, has secured $250 million in a Series D round, pushing its valuation to $1.5 billion. The funding was led by Nu…
Your favorite (or perhaps least favorite) connection cable may receive a major upgrade early next year. The HDMI Forum, which maintains the HDMI standard, said it’s hosting a big announcement during CES on Jan. 6….
Five years ago, the dead spoke this past weekend. Not within a Star Wars movie, mind, or at least, for the first time there. Not even within ancillary Star Wars tie-in material, like a comic book or…