WordPress management site WP Engine acquires Flywheel as it moves to a $1B valuation and IPO
WordPress now accounts for 34 percent of all websites globally, and today one of the key companies that helps handle the creation and management of some...
Reminder: Meet TechCrunch in NYC tomorrow
And we’re back! TechCrunch is returning to NYC for a Meet and Greet tomorrow at The Yard in Herald Square. It’s been a couple years since...
Report: Microsoft Is Cooking Up a Dual-Screen Surface With Support for Android Apps
Computer makers have been dreaming about dual-screened laptops for a long time. Microsoft got the hype started nearly a decade ago with the Courier, a rumored...
Operators of ‘Linking’ Sites Walk Free in Criminal Piracy Case
Founded in 2007, SeriesYonkis was a Spanish site where users could find links to pirated copies of the latest movies and TV-shows. It was particularly popular...
Even the Flies Inside Hospitals Carry Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Upwards of 90 percent of insects found in British hospitals carry potentially harmful bacteria, according to new research. Alarmingly, a significant portion of this bacteria is...
How to Keep Spam Out of Your Google Calendar
Scammers and spammers have been wriggling their way into unsuspecting users’ Google Calendars for years now, but there’s been a swell of headlines on Google Calendar...
Anonymous Hacker Sentenced After Dropping USB While Throwing Molotov Cocktail
If you’re going to commit crimes in public, it’s probably smart to secure anything on your person that connects you to other crimes. Read more… Source...
Boeing Has So Many Grounded 737 Max Planes Waiting to Be Fixed They’re Parking Them in the Employee Parking Lot
You may recall that, thanks to an issue with faulty sensors in the Boeing 737 Max flight control systems, those planes have been grounded after multiple...
A Potentially Record Setting Heat Wave Is About to Scorch Europe
Last year’s climate change-fueled European heat wave shrunk mountains and and revealed ancient history. So it’s with great trepidation that Europe is bracing for another scorching...
Researchers Send Fake Presidential Alerts to Stadium of 50,000 Using LTE Vulnerability
Researchers figured out a way to exploit the system that sends presidential emergency alerts to our phones, simulating their method on a 50,000 seat football stadium...
