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Making the invisible visible: Doing more with data

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Theodora Lau, founder of Unconventional Ventures, shares her view on how organizations need to move beyond leveraging data... Read more »

Greenfield transformation with BECU’s Fumbi Chima

Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” Fumbi Chima, chief information officer at BECU discusses BECU’s early stages of a greenfield migration to cloud computing.... Read more »

How aspiring influencers are forced to fight the algorithm

There are two ways to try to understand the impact of content moderation and the algorithms that enforce those rules: by relying on what the platform says, and by asking creators themselves.... Read more »

The Download: open source insecurity, and gene editing plants

It’s not much of an exaggeration to say that the whole world is built on top of the Linux kernel—although most people have never heard of it. It is one of the... Read more »

The US military wants to understand the most important software on Earth

But while the open-source movement has spawned a colossal ecosystem that we all depend on, we do not fully understand it, experts like Aitel argue. There are countless software projects, millions of... Read more »

Heat is bad for plant health. Here’s how gene editing could help.

Still, many relevant crop species are closely related to Arabidopsis, including broccoli and brussels sprouts. And because the salicylic acid pathway is present in many different kinds of plants, including major crops... Read more »

The Download: more amazing space images, and Twitter is suing Elon Musk

NASA has released the second set of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, revealing galaxies, planets, and stars in unprecedented detail. The new pictures include an incredible study of the... Read more »

The James Webb Space Telescope just delivered some incredible new images of the universe

One of those observations was a detailed study of the atmosphere of a gas giant planet 1,000 light-years from Earth called WASP-96 b. By watching the dip in light as the planet... Read more »

The Download: Cutting cholesterol with CRISPR, and the James Webb Space Telescope’s first image

The news: A volunteer in New Zealand has become the first person to undergo DNA editing in order to lower their blood cholesterol, a step that may foreshadow wide use of the... Read more »

Edits to a cholesterol gene could stop the biggest killer on earth

Some newer biotech drugs involve injections twice a month, or even just twice a year. These drugs are quite powerful, and Braunwald recently speculated what would occur if they were given widely... Read more »