Barring any further stock market shocks, Microsoft will finish the year ahead of Apple and Amazon as America’s most valuable publicly-quoted company, despite never making it to $1 trillion. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The storage industry is evolving faster than ever before in the 40 years I’ve been following it. While I tend to focus on the cutting edge, this is a good time to look back on the two biggest trends of the year. …read more Source:: ZDNet

In-flight airplanes, social engineers, and robotic vacuums were among the targets of resourceful white-hat hackers this year. …read more Source:: DarkReading

An anonymous reader shares a report: When General Motors laid off more than 6,000 workers days after Thanksgiving, John Patrick Leary, the author of the new book Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism, tweeted out part of GM CEO Mary Barra’s statement. “The actions we are taking today continue our transformation to be highly agile,…

Black Mirror made an interactive movie before interactive movies become real-life Black Mirror episodes. …read more Source:: CNet

A senior executive from the Fortune 500 company, L3 Technologies, explains how to use data to change corporate culture and innovate. Be inspired by her practical advice! …read more Source:: ZDNet

Downtime caused by network issue affecting 15 of CenturyLink’s data centers. …read more Source:: ZDNet

A gene editing technique has been used to produce asexual rice, which could carry traits such as high yields and drought resistance. From a report: After more than 20 years of theorizing about it, scientists have tweaked a hybrid variety of rice so that some of the plants produce cloned seeds. No plant sex necessary….

Over on the Cloudflare blog, [Marek] found himself wondering about computer memory, as we all sometimes do. Specifically, he pondered if he could detect the refresh of his SDRAM from within a running program. We’re probably not ruining the surprise by telling you that the answer is yes — with a little more than 100…

We all knew this one was coming. But the question is, what’ll be under the hood? …read more Source:: CNet