Harvest those crops soon, because the original addictive Facebook game is shutting down. …read more Source:: CNet

A California judge says it should be for the people to decide whether Epic’s claims about Apple’s alleged anti-competitive behavior have substance. …read more Source:: CNet

CNET’s new podcast series hears from the trailblazing women of space — from the early days of Apollo to the next giant leap toward Mars. …read more Source:: CNet

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, writing at CNBC: In the first few years of Netflix, we were growing fast and needed to hire more software engineers. With my new understanding that high talent density would be the engine of our success, we focused on finding the top performers in the market. In Silicon Valley, many of…

Pokemon has big news Tuesday about the upcoming DLC. …read more Source:: CNet

The ideal component tester is like a tricorder for electronics — it can measure whatever it is that you need it to, all the time. Maybe you have a few devices like an ohmmeter and maybe a transistor socket on our multimeter. But what do you do when you need to see if that thyristor…

The company is best known for little video boxes even as it drives more of its revenue from powering the broadband experience for big TVs. In tapping both channels, it is setting up for a disruptive attack on home audio. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Amazon expects to nearly triple its workforce in Vancouver, where software engineers are cheap, smart and plentiful. From a report: The online retail giant plans to occupy a bunker-like former Canada Post mailing center that’s being redeveloped into a new 1.1 million square-foot office to house 8,000 jobs by 2023, Jesse Dougherty, a vice president…

Multi-platform not cross-platform, says company – enough to increase interest in the language? Apple has open-sourced Swift System, a library designed to improve the experience of calling the operating system API from Swift on supported platforms, including a new Linux implementation.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

The Ryuk ransomware is suspected to be the culprit. …read more Source:: Threatpost