The DL on CockroachDB As college students at Berkeley, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis created a successful open-source graphics program, GIMP, which got the attention of Google. The duo ultimately joined Google, and even personally got kudos from Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Kimball and Mattis quickly rose to prominence within the company, and then chose to leave it […]

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China Roundup: Kai-Fu Lee’s first Europe bet, WeRide buys a truck startup Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. Despite the geopolitical headwinds for foreign tech firms to enter China, many companies, especially those that find a dependable partner, are still forging ahead. For this […]

This Week in Apps: Clubhouse opens up, Twitter talks bitcoin, Snap sees record quarter Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices […]

Biden’s Antitrust Team Signals a Big Swing at Corporate Titans The president has stacked his administration with crusaders who have spent their careers challenging corporate consolidation.

How to Create a Non-Fungible Token? [Ultimate Guide] The world of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) offers a golden opportunity for entrepreneurs to maximize the traction of their business. They have a soaring market capitalization of $22.25 billion and a daily trading volume of $2.68 billion, according to CoinMarketCap.com. Hence, trading in crypto collectibles is a profitable investment. We cannot wait to unveil the same! […] The post How to Create a Non-Fungible Token? [Ultimate Guide] appeared first on ReadWrite.

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The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online Researchers and regulators say Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician, creates and profits from misleading claims about Covid-19. “I have every right to inform the public,” he says.

Porn Showed Upon on Legit News Sites Thanks to Internet Rot Plus: China's pipeline probing, a Chromebook debacle, and more of the week's top security news.

Man Gets 5 Years in ‘Swatting’ Death of Tennessee Grandfather Mark Herring had a fatal heart attack after the police swarmed his house following a fake emergency call. He had been targeted because of his coveted Twitter handle, @Tennessee.

Can we build a computer with free will? Do you have free will? Can you make your own decisions? Or are you more like an automaton, just moving as required by your constituent parts? Probably, like most people, you feel you have something called free will. Your decisions are not predetermined; you could do otherwise. Yet scientists can tell you that you are made up of atoms and molecules and that they are governed by the laws of physics. Fundamentally, then – in terms of atoms and molecules – we can predict the future for any given starting point. This seems to leave no room for free will,…This story continues at The Next Web

Biochemical pathway to skin darkening holds implications for prevention of skin cancers A skin pigmentation mechanism that can darken the color of human skin as a natural defense against ultraviolet

Scientists resurrect ‘forgotten’ genus of marine algae In the late 1800s, scientists were stumped by the “yellow cells” they were observing in the tissues of

Developing machine learning tools for soil moisture data An Ohio State faculty member has launched a three-year federally funded project that will develop nationally available, high-resolution cyber informatics