IBM (IBM) revealed today it plans to acquire Confluent (CFLT), a pioneer in data streaming, for about $11B, prompting Confluent shares to surge more than 25% during early Monday trading. Confluent ...

Stories about desperate patients taking hospital personnel hostage to force them to treat them have become too common on medical dramas, and I hate them. I love a good thriller — I write them myself, ...

IBM was early, you might argue too early, to AI. Now, CEO Arvind Krishna thinks big bets like Watsonx and quantum computing will start to pay off. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder ...

It is no secret that the Cleveland Browns as an organization regret the decision to sign Deshaun Watson to a fully-guaranteed $230 million contract. The owner has said as much himself, calling the ...

Watson Clinic has established a $10 million fund to settle a class-action lawsuit following a ransomware attack. The lawsuit alleged the clinic failed to protect the personal data of over 280,000 ...

CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd. is considering listing health and beauty retailer A.S. Watson Group, people familiar with the matter said. The Hong Kong-based conglomerate has been speaking with financial ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the science writer at Cold Spring Harbor ...

How do we reckon with the legacy of people who have done excellent work, but who have said or done terrible things? Last week, James Watson died at the age of 97. Watson’s scientific work was ...

Andor J. Kiss does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

James Dewey Watson, a molecular biologist whose work helped decode the structure of DNA, died on November 6, 2025, at a hospice in East Northport, N.Y. He was 97 years old. Watson was best known for ...

The technology supplier said it was shifting its focus to higher-growth businesses, including A.I. consulting and software. By Steve Lohr IBM said on Tuesday that it planned to cut thousands of ...

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