Porsche’s Skunkworks Built the Taycan Turbo GT
A few years ago, Stefan Weckbach, then the chief engineer for the Porsche Taycan, built a weird prototype. “He came up to me with this normal-looking Taycan with two bucket…
A popular open-source content delivery network went down for hours
Unpkg, a content delivery network (CDN) that powers more than 4 billion requests per day, went down for several hours on Friday morning. The outage broke the thousands of websites…
Sources: StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can’t get close to the $16.5B valuation from a funding round in 2021 (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
Cory Weinberg / The Information: Sources: StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can’t get close to the $16.5B valuation from…
Surveillance Bill Clears Key Hurdle in House, Putting It Back on Track
The House took a critical first step on Friday toward reauthorizing a law extending an expiring warrantless surveillance law that national security officials say is crucial to fighting terrorism, voting…
A Random Influx of DNA from a Virus Helped Vertebrates Become So Stunningly Successful
A Random Influx of DNA from a Virus Helped Vertebrates Become So Stunningly Successful Insertion of genetic material from a virus into the genome of a vertebrate ancestor enabled the…