Last week, BP (along with many other supermajors) posted their 2nd Quarter results for 2016, their first report since having “drawn a line under the material liabilities for Deepwater Horizon” spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Although they missed their target and profits are down for the quarter (due to the low price of oil and weak margins on their refining operations), their strong cash flow and plans for growth should keep them afloat for many years to come.

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Rockwell Automation innovated its own manufacturing processes to strengthen its business, and show customers that it practiced what it preached.

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Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom joins the FORBES Billionaires List, four years after his photo-sharing app was acquired by Facebook.

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Instagram is emerging as Facebook’s growth engine, turning Mark Zuckerberg’s purchase into one of the greatest tech deals of all time. But no tears for the photo-sharing app’s cofounder, Kevin Systrom. He’s building an empire–and just made himself a billionaire.

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One man hacks his home via a solar array, finds 1,000 more in danger of total shut down.

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Unlike edge-on or face-on galaxies, tilted spirals often have a “black eye” appearance. Science finally understands why.

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Mesosphere has announced the general availability of Confluent and Lightbend Reactive platforms on DC/OS, a distributed operating environment for enterprise datacenters. The company is evangelizing Container 2.0 to customers where they can run contemporary, stateless applications alongside traditional, stateful applications.

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Sodium is volatile, difficult to work with and known for caustic, aggressive properties. It’s like the UFC of the Periodic Table of the Elements.

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Ever since Microsoft launched Windows 10, they have primarily been focused on getting people to upgrade their existing machines from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10, in addition to promoting their own Surface line. The upgrade program allowed users of both operating systems to upgrade their systems to Windows 10 for free for a year. That all ended on July 29th, just a few days ago. In that year, Microsoft managed to get the Windows platform from zero Windows 10 users to 350 million monthly active users in a single year. That is a pretty astonishing number, but still not good enough for Microsoft to hit their 1 billion device monthly active user goal which has since been revised.

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