E-cigarette startup Juul Labs is valued at more than $16 billion. It’s also hooking teens on nicotine and drawing scrutiny from the FDA. Can the company innovate its way out of a crisis it helped create? | Continue reading
The film will screen in a thousand cinemas on December 15 for Prime members. | Continue reading
Cities are looking to machine learning to streamline their disaster-response efforts. Will it be too little too late? | Continue reading
As mining machines harvest bitcoin, they generate excess heat. Instead of letting it go to waste, a Canadian company is capturing it and using it to warm people’s homes. | Continue reading
Definers Public Affairs has sought to discredit opponents in part by spreading misleading stories via a network of right-wing sites—and through Facebook. | Continue reading
These giant towers use a very low-tech solution to store energy created when the sun shines or the wind blows so it can be used later. | Continue reading
Don’t wish on a star. Wish on a SpaceX satellite. | Continue reading
A deeply-reported New York Times story shows Facebook fumbling through the Russian propaganda crisis and using some sketchy methods of deflecting bad press. | Continue reading
Facebook launched its fundraising tools after it was inspired by the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which went viral in 2014. | Continue reading
Astronauts and researchers from National Geographic’s “Mars” grapple with the profit motives that could harm humans and the Red Planet. | Continue reading
The sheer size of the handouts ($2.4 billion in tax incentives) already outraged critics on both the left and right, but some of the details about helipads and tax increases were particularly galling. | Continue reading
Amazon announced its “second headquarters,” and New York City politicians and locals began to mobilize against it–and the $1.5 billion in tax cuts it will receive. | Continue reading
With its new smartphone widget, Taboola aims to break news out of its walled gardens, says its CEO: “It’s not ads. It’s not sponsored content.” | Continue reading
The answer has big implications for the future of work, including possibly yours. | Continue reading
A new app from Cloudflare hides the location of sites and services you access from web browsers and any other apps on your Android or Apple device. | Continue reading
Few realize how profoundly San Francisco’s physical form has been shaped by its planning department, whose best intentions have been overshadowed by efforts to appease the city’s wealthy, well-connected homeowners. | Continue reading
This experiment in computer vision may make you appreciate your own quirks that much more. | Continue reading
If the Surface represents the convergence of tablet and PC, Apple sees the iPad Pro as a tablet capable of erasing that very divide. | Continue reading
Disney beat analysts expectations in its new earnings report, as CEO Bob Iger teased its Netflix competitor and said that prices on Hulu will likely rise. | Continue reading
Companies have been on a billion-dollar hiring spree for AI researchers in computer science departments. Who’s going to train the researchers of the future? | Continue reading
A Canadian data firm that is under investigation in multiple countries and suspended by Facebook built and maintained Ted Cruz’s campaign apps. | Continue reading
With her disappearing stories, anecdotes, and fan art, the political newcomer from the Bronx is trailblazing a new path in political communication. | Continue reading
The comedian and once-homeless musician added star firepower to the controversial $300 million tax to get people off the streets. | Continue reading
A young entrepreneur turned his hobby into Makeblock, a booming business that’s helping students around the world learn by building robots. | Continue reading
Alfonso Cobo saw the potential in Stories early on. Today, his template app has 11 million users, and he’s launching a design agency focused on Stories alone. | Continue reading
We’re facing a full-on environmental crisis. Do you really need another flimsy tote or pen? | Continue reading
Ecovative thinks it can use mycelia, the hair-like network of cells that grows in mushrooms, to help build everything from lab-grown meat to 3D-printed organs to biofabricated leather. | Continue reading
The iPad Pro has changed my life, and I don’t care about desktop computing anymore. | Continue reading
Sidney Torres IV, a mogul and reality TV star in The Big Easy, previously funded police patrols and a crime reporting app in the city. | Continue reading
After proving that radiation won’t fry the system, NASA and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are putting a gigaflop “supercomputer” on duty for the next few months. | Continue reading
A new approach to quantum—schlepping data with light—depends upon the very readily available stuff of classical computer chips. | Continue reading
King has a history of openly espousing racist views and supporting white supremacists. | Continue reading
Forget “guest.” Forget two-factor. Soon, all you’ll need is your unique brain waves. | Continue reading
Jumpstart lets you put just a few bucks toward crowdfunded clean energy projects, to try to close the world’s clean energy investment gap. | Continue reading
Droves of baby boomer business owners are starting to retire, and looking to hand off their life’s work. That spells opportunity. | Continue reading
The lessons you learn teaching an iconic video game character to rack up points–without mowing down ghosts–might serve a higher purpose. | Continue reading
The Postal Service photographs the outside of every piece of mail, and frequently shares images and metadata from mail with law enforcement. | Continue reading
How geography, a new train stop, and aggressive planning are combining to make Somerville, Massachusetts’s Union Square the northeast’s next promising tech hot spot. | Continue reading
How Netflix and the streaming wars are creating massive income inequality in the entertainment industry. | Continue reading
Bio-Bricks are a revolutionary building material made from pee, loose sand, and bacteria. | Continue reading
LikeWar author P.W. Singer on how Taylor Swift, Facebook, Trump, and others helped turn us into accidental soldiers in the battles of the future. | Continue reading
“America’s most sophisticated peer competitor now has a direct line into the President’s confidential thinking,” said former White House CIO Theresa Payton. | Continue reading
Italian authorities imposed a €10 million fine on Apple and a €5 million fine on Samsung over the alleged “planned obsolescence” of their smartphones. | Continue reading
David Bradley was one of 12 engineers who developed the first IBM PCs. And he left his mark. | Continue reading
Immigrant and privacy activists are detailing the involvement of big tech–especially Amazon–with the military, ICE, and local law enforcement. | Continue reading
The app’s creator says he wants people to experience something like what NFL players feel when making what he calls “a respectful gesture of protest.” | Continue reading
The title of the report alone–“The Opportunity Costs of Socialism”–betrays curled-lip snark and fears of growing support for single-payer healthcare. | Continue reading
The $500 million cruise ship will be built in China and will follow the original route from Southampton to New York, minus the detour to the ocean bottom. | Continue reading