In a week when a major retail website went down under the pressure of Cyber Monday, AppDynamics, a company that helps monitor apps and websites in order to prevent those types of outages (or at least understand why they happened and recover as quickly as possible) announced a major update today. … [Read more...]
Target.com Crashes Because of Online Traffic
A number of sites have buckled under the pressure of increased traffic as more Americans turned to online shopping over the Black Friday weekend than those who visited brick-and-mortar stores, according to new data from the National Retail Federation. … [Read more...]
Groupon Best Retailer for 2015 Cyber Week?
Those who choose to skip out on the Black Friday chaos may choose to explore Cyber Monday deals instead, but for shoppers looking to save even more during the online shopping frenzy, it appears some retailers are better than others. … [Read more...]
There Is Such a Thing as Being too Late to Fix Climate Change
President Obama kicked off the Paris climate talks on Monday with a focus on future generations, quoting Martin Luther King, Jr., and calling on world leaders to take strong action at the conference, which runs through December 11. … [Read more...]
USB-C Steps Forward to Become the Port of the Future
The dream of a one-cable future is looking a little more real now that newer, better USB Type-C ports are here.You may remember USB-C — the small, reversible USB port that wants to replace all your connections (charging, display, data, etc.) — from Apple's ultra-thin MacBook and Google's Chromebook Pixel 2. … [Read more...]
Hot Cop of the Castro Arrested in Hit-and-Run
Christopher Kohrs, a San Francisco police officer known affectionately on social media as the "Hot Cop of the Castro", was arrested early Sunday morning after he allegedly plowed into two men in the city’s North Beach neighborhood and ran off. … [Read more...]
Japan’s Will Resume Whaling in the Antarctic
A Japanese whaling fleet will set sail on Tuesday for the Antarctic on a three-month hunt, the government said on Monday. … [Read more...]
Robert Dear’s Anti-Obama Remarks Bring Secret Service Into Case
Colorado Springs shooting suspect Robert Dear allegedly made statements about President Obama that were concerning enough he now has the attention of the U.S. Secret Service, which has dispatched agents to evaluate the remarks and possibly interview him, law enforcement sources tell ABC News. … [Read more...]