Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly offered to acquire PayPal for roughly $53 billion — $60.50 per share, about a 28% premium over Tuesday’s close, backed by around $50…
Micron fell roughly 8% on Wednesday, and the tape assigned two culprits: ChangXin Memory Technologies pricing an ~$8.5 billion IPO on Shanghai’s STAR Market, and reports that Washington may impose new…
A blacksmith, a stable boy, a soldier, a slave. These are the sort of people who almost never survive in the historical record — no monuments, no inscriptions, no chroniclers. A new exhibition at the…
Asynchronous code has a reputation for being confusing, but the core idea is simple: stop waiting. This post starts from zero — no prior async experience assumed — and builds up to the parts people…
The country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs that defined the first year of Trump’s trade agenda are gone, struck down in court. But the tariffs on imports have not disappeared. They have been rebuilt on…
Cosina has officially announced the Voigtländer APO-Lanthar 90mm f/4 Close Focus, moving the lens from its CP+ 2026 prototype showing to a confirmed product for Leica M-mount. Shipping is expected to…
The Voigtländer APO-Skopar 75mm f/2.8 VM is the sibling lens to the newly announced APO-Lanthar 90mm f/4 Close Focus — both shown as prototypes at CP+ 2026 — but it reached market first. Cosina gave…
IBM closed down 25.2% at $217.07 on July 14, the steepest single-day decline in the company’s history and the worst drop in records that run back to 1968 — worse than the 23.7% collapse of October…
2026 Esri User Conference: Power of Where Collection Debuts at the World’s Largest GIS Event The 2026 Esri User Conference runs July 13–17 at the San Diego Convention Center, drawing more than 18,000…
TerraFirma, a tech-enabled construction company building semi-autonomous heavy machinery, has raised approximately $115 million, anchored by a $100 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins. The round…