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Bridgestone acquires fleet tracking platform Azuga for $391M
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Bridgestone Americas today announced that it has acquired Azuga, a connected vehicle platform for fleet operators, for $391 million in cash and stock. As a part of the deal, Bridgestone says it’ll take ownership of all of... Read more
Razer Blade 14 (2021) review: A mighty mite of a gaming laptop
Sarah Tew/CNET Thanks to the balance of screen size and weight, I generally like 14-inch laptops better than the alternatives. I’ve never found the smaller screen size to affect my immersion in games; as much as I love me a massive desktop display, once I’m in, I’m in. So... Read more
Sunny-Day Flooding Is About to Become More Than a Nuisance
During the summer of 2017, the tide rose to historic heights again and again in Honolulu, higher than at any time in the 112 years that records had been kept. Philip Thompson, director of the Sea Level Center at the University of Hawaii, wanted to know why. “Where did... Read more
GitLab’s open source Package Hunter detects malicious code in dependencies
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. GitLab recently launched a new open source tool to detect malicious code in software components. Modern software depends on dozens or hundreds of third-party packages, some which... Read more
Olympics 2021: Simone Biles withdraws from floor exercise final
Simone Biles is one of the best gymnasts the world has ever witnessed. Jamie Squire/Getty Simone Biles has pulled out of Monday’s gymnastics floor exercises finals, an event for which she won Gold at 2016’s Rio Olympics. The only remaining event on Biles Olympic schedule is Tuesday’s balance beam... Read more
A Guide to RCS, and Why It Makes Texting So Much Better
Next year Verizon will join AT&T and T-Mobile in preloading Android phones with Messages by Google as the default texting app. It’s a big win for RCS, the chat protocol that Google has been pushing us all to adopt. But what exactly is RCS, and why do you need... Read more
The new space race: Big takeaways for software and product innovators
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. This post was written by Scott Castle, VP & general manager of products at Sisense The new space race is grabbing headlines and driving public interest in the potential of space exploration. For tech innovators, it opens... Read more
Tokyo Olympics: High jump event ends with unprecedented shared gold
Gianmarco Tamberi from Italy celebrates winning gold in the high jump at the Tokyo Olympics. Tim Clayton/Corbis via Getty Images Sport can be savage. Sport can be brutal. But sometimes sport also throws up moments that reinvigorate your faith in humanity.  Yesterday, the high jump event at the Tokyo... Read more
10 Best Mechanical Keyboards for PC (2021): Gaming and Work
There are few things as polarizing as PC keyboards. There are message boards and subreddits filled to the brim with opinions on the virtues and vices of different switch mechanisms and dissecting every aspect and component, right down to the plastic used in the keycaps.  There’s good reason for... Read more
Nintendo and Sony are playing different games when it comes to TV advertising
All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Nintendo flat-out dominated video game national TV advertising for the first half of 2021. But depending on your programming of choice, you may not have noticed. Overall, the industry drove 3.73 billion TV ad impressions, with an... Read more