Photo by Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav told investors earlier this month that his grand vision to revitalize the company included finding a new Kevin Feige type to lead its embattled DC Films division to a new era of Marvel Studios-like success. While nothing’s been finalized yet, it seems as if the studio’s…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
If someone tries to sell you 30TB of solid-state storage for less than $40, consider turning around and running away, no matter how many clip-art rockets they use in their pictures. It feels like high-capacity SSDs are getting cheaper all the time, but in the words of a security researcher known as Ray Redacted on…
Enlarge / A Wendy’s old-fashion burger. Romaine lettuce on Wendy’s burgers is thought to be the cause of the outbreak. (credit: Getty | Francis Dean) A multistate outbreak of E. coli O157 infections linked to romaine lettuce on Wendy’s burgers has more than doubled since last week, according to an update from the Centers for…
Moderna filed a lawsuit against Pfizer and BioNTech claiming the biopharmaceutical companies infringed on Moderna’s patents related to mRNA technology in develop of their COVID-19 vaccine. The lawsuit, to be filed in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts and Regional Court of Düsseldorf in Germany, alleges Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine Comirnaty infringes on Moderna’s patent filed between…
You see a lot of acquisitions come down the pike when you cover enterprise software. Many are pedestrian for the most part, even if they involve large sums of money, but today’s news that OpenText is buying Micro Focus for a total value of $6 billion feels a bit different. Micro Focus, a British company,…
Days after HBO’s “House of the Dragon” became the most-watched premiere for a new HBO original series, the “Game of Thrones” prequel series is renewed for a second season. Now that the rumor is confirmed, fans can rest in knowing the Dance of the Dragons is just beginning to unfold. The company also announced today…
Jack Dorsey might be out of the picture at Twitter these days, but he’s still waxing philosophical about the company. In a reply to a tweet asking about his biggest regrets (paired with, sigh, anecdotal claims about political bias on the platform) the company’s co-founder and former CEO offered the grand observation that he wishes…
It’s been a long time since NASA had a rocket of this magnitude, capable of sending large payloads — astronauts and cargo — into deep space. Not only is the Space Launch System, or SLS, built to travel to the moon, it’s expected to one day put millions of miles on the odometer during the…
PlayStation is all alone in raising the price of its flagship console, at least for now. Both Nintendo and Microsoft issued separate statements to Eurogamer this week more or less confirming that the Switch and Xbox Series consoles won’t get price hikes like the PlayStation 5 just did in all major markets outside the U.S….
Your command line experience could be in for a revamp soon, with Windows Terminal becoming the default terminal in the latest Windows 11 Insider preview build. As described in a Microsoft blog post, all command line applications, including the likes of Command Prompt and PowerShell, will now launch in Windows Terminal automatically for members of…