Blockchain company buys asteroid mining firm Planetary Resources

Planetary Resources just took an unusual turn on its path to asteroic mining. ConsenSys, a blockchain company created by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, has bought Planetary Resources for an unspecified sum. It sounds supremely trendy given the combination of blockchain and private spaceflight, but it’sa logical fit if you ask Planetary Resources’ Brian Israel. Blockchain-based […]

Activision shows PC some love, plans “significant” resources for Call of Duty

Enlarge Ever since Activision removed dedicated server support from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 back in 2009 (leading to a largely ineffectual attempted boycott from PC players), the popular series has had something of a reputation as a franchise focused first on console players and second on afterthought PC ports. That’s especially true when […]

250 officers from 8 units: UK diverts ‘enormous resources’ to probe Russian ex-spy’s poisoning

Amid hysteria surrounding the mysterious poisoning of Sergei Skripal, Britain is dedicating a significant part of the country’s anti-terrorism capacity to look for Moscow’s hand in the former Russian double agent’s misfortune. The UK government has diverted significant resources, with eight out of Britain’s 11 anti-terrorism units currently helping to investigate the poisoning of former […]

7 months after a sexual harassment scandal, the human resources startup BetterWorks has a new CEO

BetterWorks BetterWorks has a new CEO, seven months after founder Kris Duggan announced that he would step down following sexual harassment allegations.  Doug Dennerline, a former Cisco and Salesforce executive, started his new job at BetterWorks on Wednesday with an all-hands meeting where he addressed the last few months and his ambitions moving forward.See the […]

Roy Moore pleads for money after resources were ‘depleted’ from sexual misconduct lawsuit

AP Photo/Hal Yeager Former US Senate candidate Roy Moore is pleading for money to pay for his legal bills. Moore is fighting a lawsuit against a woman who says he molested her when she was 14. Moore’s campaign Facebook page said his “resources have been depleted.” Former US Senate candidate Roy Moore is pleading for […]

Tesla cloud resources are hacked to run cryptocurrency-mining malware

Enlarge (credit: Scott Olson | Getty Images) Add Tesla to the legion of organizations that have been infected by cryptocurrency-mining malware. In a report published Tuesday, researchers at security firm RedLock said hackers accessed one of Tesla’s Amazon cloud accounts and used it to run currency-mining software. The researchers said the breach in many ways […]

Indigenous people need resources 24/7 to cut suicide rates, committee recommends

Canada’s Indigenous people need resources 24/7, as well as culturally appropriate programs and services that are community led and controlled as part of a suicide prevention plan to reverse “decades of unjust policies,” a parliamentary committee recommends. CBC | Health News

Black Women: Supporting Their Families—With Few Resources

The importance of women’s economic health in the black community is hard to overstate. That’s in part because black women tend to shoulder a lot of their households’ financial burden. More than 80 percent of black mothers are the breadwinners (defined as sole earner or bringing in at least 40 percent of total earnings) in […]

Sessions criticizes police reform efforts for depleting resources: ‘These decrees are not a silver bullet’

Thomson Reuters Attorney General Jeff Sessions criticized recent efforts to overhaul embattled police departments across the country on Tuesday, telling an audience of law enforcement officials that such consent decrees divert resources from combatting crime and could make cities less safe. “These decrees are not a silver bullet for solving the tough issues confronting some […]