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VMware acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7 billion 2 days ago – VMware today announced that it is acquiring Carbon Black, a publicly traded security company that focuses on securing modern cloud-native workloads. The price of the acquisition is about $2.1 billion. In addition, VMware also confirmed the acquisition of Pivotal, which will have a value of about ...
FCC approves $4.9B in funding for rural broadband improvements 2 days ago – The FCC has just approved nearly five billion dollars in subsidies for rural broadband operators to be paid out over the next ten years. Recipients of this windfall will have to "maintain, improve, and expand" their broadband infrastructure, especially in underserved areas.
HP CEO steps down, citing ‘family health matter’ 2 days ago – HP Inc. announced this afternoon that Dion Weisler is stepping down as president and CEO. The executive cited a “family health matter” in his decision, noting that he will be returning home to Australia. The company already has a successor lined up, as its president of Imaging, Printing and Solut...
Summer flash sale ends tonight: 2-for-1 Disrupt Berlin 2019 passes a day ago – Summer’s fading fast, but our 2-for-1 summer flash sale on Innovator, Founder or Investor passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019 is fading even faster. Today’s the final day you can get 2-for-1 tickets to join us in Berlin for two jam-packed days of startup goodness and opportunity. Why not do it for the ...
Silicone 3D printing startup Spectroplast spins out of ETHZ with $1.5M 2 days ago – 3D printing has become commonplace in the hardware industry, but because few materials can be used for it easily, the process rarely results in final products. A Swiss startup called Spectroplast hopes to change that with a technique for printing using silicone, opening up all kinds of applicatio...
This Thiel Fellow thinks he can help scooters, drones and delivery robots charge themselves with sunlight 2 days ago – From the time he was a high school student, Rohit Kalyanpur thought it was peculiar that although it’s possible to create energy from a solar panel, the panels have long been used almost exclusively on rooftops and as part of industrial-scale solar grids. “I hadn’t seen [anything solar-powered] i...
The 2020 Chevy Bolt EV now has a 259-mile range thanks to some cell chemistry tinkering a day ago – The 2020 Chevy Bolt EV now has 259 miles of range, a 9% increase from previous year models of the electric hatchback, according to the EPA. To get there, the company focused on cell chemistry, not the battery pack. The GM brand did not add more battery cells or change the battery pack or the way ...
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: Torch a day ago – CEO Jeremy OBriant never intended to create Torch, an agile growth marketing agency based in San Francisco. He started his career as a CPA, but after leading a growth team at Sidecar and running growth projects on his own, forming Torch was the most obvious thing to do. He now leads a team that i...
Facebook really doesn’t want you to read these emails a day ago – Oh hey, y’all, it’s Friday! It’s August! Which means it’s a great day for Facebook to drop a little news it would prefer you don’t notice. News that you won’t find a link to on the homepage of Facebook’s Newsroom — which is replete with colorfully illustrated items it does want you to read (like ...
Confirmed: Disney is making an Obi-Wan series with Ewan McGregor 12 hours ago – The rumors have been suggesting it for a while now, and fans have been pretty much begging for it… and it’s happening: Ewan McGregor will return to the role of Obi-Wan for a new Disney+ series. Disney dropped the news at a panel during D23 this evening, almost immediately after premiering the tra...
Here’s the first trailer for the upcoming Disney+ Star Wars series, The Mandalorian 12 hours ago – It’s here! About ten months after we learned that Jon Favreau would be heading up a Star Wars series called “The Mandalorian” on Disney’s soon-to-launch streaming service Disney+, we have the first full trailer. It premiered this evening during the Disney+ panel at the D23 conference. Everyone in...
Vape lung has claimed its first victim, and the CDC is investigating 13 hours ago – A person has died from what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention speculate is a vaping-related condition. Nearly 200 other cases of varying severeness have been reported nationwide described by the CDC as "severe unexplained respiratory systems after reported vaping or e-cigarette use."
HP has a new CEO 2 days ago – Image: HP HP Inc. has announced that CEO Dion Weisler will be stepping down “due to a family health matter” and will be succeeded by Enrique Lores, who is currently president of HP’s printer division. Lores will officially begin as CEO on November 1st, according to the press release. HP says W...
Errors in cellphone location evidence force Denmark to review 10,000 verdicts a day ago – Errors in cellphone location data have prompted authorities in Denmark to review 10,700 court cases to see if flawed evidence lead to incorrect convictions. The New York Times reports that the issues date back in 2012, and consist of two bugs. The first relates to how raw data from phone companie...
Why The Most Dangerous Game is this weekend’s best streaming bet a day ago – RKO Radio Pictures Inc./Photofes There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge’s Cut the Crap column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwh...
a day ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google has updated its employee guidelines to caution against unnecessary TM political debate and improper disclosure of company information. Unveiled on Friday, the guidelines direct Googlers to be respectful in all internal communications, with prohibiti...
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Disney+ will give subscribers four simultaneous streams and free 4K 12 hours ago – Image: Disney Disney’s upcoming Disney+ streaming service is shaping up to be quite the deal. According to CNET, the service will launch on November 12th with support for four simultaneous streams and 4K included, all for the base price of $6.99 a month. Subscribers will also be able to create...
Epoch Times banned from advertising after sneaking pro-Trump propaganda onto Facebook 17 hours ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has banned conservative news site The Epoch Times from buying ads after it was discovered that the site was trying to avoid the company’s rules for transparency around political advertisements, according to a report from NBC News.
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