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On Monday, Microsoft said it will offer voluntary buyouts to eligible employees in select parts of the company. CNBC reports that the buyouts will be offered to roughly 60,000 employees, or about a quarter of its global workforce. The company describes the offer as an opportunity for employees who may have already been considering career…

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of the most beloved fictional detectives of all time in Sherlock Holmes, spawning countless novels, films, TV series, and so forth featuring the sleuth. Far fewer people know about the real-life inspiration for Holmes: a renowned surgeon at Scotland’s University of Edinburgh named Joseph Bell, who taught Doyle when…

Startups have never been under more pressure to grow quickly. To do that, many of them must land large enterprises, the deep-pockets of the IT world, as customers. But as any company that sells to enterprises will tell you, it’s not easy to win such contracts.

After two months of discomfort, a man in South Korea went to an eye clinic where doctors pulled 11 living, wriggling worms from his eyes. They apparently made the most of their time on the man’s peepers; at the time of extraction, many of the female worms were pregnant. The man narrowly avoided having them…

If you could have one million followers on any social media platform, which would you choose? There is a correct answer, and it’s YouTube, assuming you’d like to get paid for your work. But Instagram’s latest update could upend YouTube’s long-held position as the most lucrative platform for creators, if only Instagram plays its cards…

Highway thieves are using sophisticated digital tactics that investigators worry make it easy to rob trucks carrying millions in expensive data center equipment.

The U.S. government has long had an on-again, off-again relationship with the fusion power sector. As of last week, it’s definitely back on.

Elon Musk accused Ukraine of violating Starlink terms of service by using it for lethal drone strikes.

The launch of the iPhone Duo, Apple’s hotly anticipated foldable phone, is off to a rough start. The phone was announced at this year’s Surprise and Shine event, with Apple promising that it had finally gotten a notoriously tricky form factor right.

Over the past decade, head-to-head brain games like QuizUp rocketed in popularity, reaching at one point millions of users. After that, battle royale games like Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds had their moment in the spotlight. Lately, growth of mobile games has slowed down amid a barrage of AI content across platforms. Now, the India-based gaming…