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Doctors Use Genetically Engineered Viruses to Fight Drug-Resistant Superbug
A teenager in the UK was at death's door following complications from a lung transplant, but a last-ditch effort using genetically engineered viruses has saved her life. Doctors say this is a watershed moment for the use of so-called bacteriophages in medicine.

Mini’s Urban-X Accelerator Imagines the Brooklyn You’ve Always Dreamed Of
It's not quite Amazon HQ2, but Mini's Urban-X incubator brings more tech to New York City. The startups' goals: Make cities more fun and livable. Even if that means displacing some of the cars.

Specs Leak on AMD’s Upcoming 3rd Gen Ryzen 16-Core CPU
A new leak may point the way to the specs on AMD's rumored 16-core third-generation Ryzen desktop CPU.

Google Killed Nest’s Interoperability Last Week, Ends ‘Works With Nest’
Google effectively killed Nest as an independent company this week — along with its promises to keep Nest user data separate from Google's own repositories.

All Chromebooks Will Support Linux Going Forward
For most of its life, users couldn't access the Linux heart of Chrome OS, but that changed last year with a feature called "Crostini." That allowed select Chromebooks to install and run Linux apps, but now Crostini is coming to all Chrome OS devices.

Should Sandy Bridge Users Upgrade? Evaluating the 2600K Against Modern CPUs
Intel's Core i7-2600K has been an incredibly popular chip over the long term — is it finally time to upgrade off the venerable CPU?

BMW Service Outage Breaks CarPlay Functionality
Owners of some BMW vehicles have found themselves unable to access CarPlay lately, and that appears to be due to an outage in the company's ConnectedDrive system. That's a paid service, so owners have essentially paid BMW for the privilege of not using CarPlay in their luxury vehicles.

Intel: Laptops With Foldable Screens at Least 2 Years Away
Foldable screen technology might be unproven in smartphones, but that hasn't stopped companies from integrating them into even larger products.

Google Pixel 3a Gets Respectable Repairability Score from iFixit
The first thing to know about the Pixel 3a is that its plastic frame is not water-resistant. That's not great if you plan to use it in the rain, but it does make the phone easier to disassemble.

Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32
Microsoft has acknowledged that its efforts to push UWP apps into the market has fundamentally not worked. The company plans to extend UWP features to Win32 apps int he future.

Microsoft Is Rebooting PowerToys for Windows 10
This is an open source project for Microsoft, so you can check out a preview of PowerToys on Github right now.

Tech Stocks Jittery as New Chinese Tariffs Loom
Significant tariffs will go into effect at 12:01 AM Friday morning, and the markets have been jittery about the issue all week. So what happens next?