Nikki Katz’s CODE: Rosie program gives employees already well into their careers the chance to reinvent themselves as software engineers. | Continue reading
As the 120-ton space shuttle sits surrounded by almost 4 million pounds of rocket fuel, exhaling noxious fumes, visibly impatient to defy gravity, its on-board computers take command. | Continue reading
Starting in July small business will get $10,000 to attract remote workers. | Continue reading
It wasn’t just the airline ban. Josh Udashkin reflects on the fundamental problems of trying to sell suitcases on the internet. | Continue reading
The ACLU and civil rights groups are demanding that Amazon stop selling its face software to the government. | Continue reading
Emphasizing individual attention and specialty services, small cloud providers hold their own against tech giants like Amazon and Microsoft. | Continue reading
After years of unquestioning praise, Theranos was exposed due to WSJ reporter Carreyrou’s dogged reporting. His new book, Bad Blood tells the full story. | Continue reading
The well-documented hell of the Brooklyn Bridge in the summertime contains a valuable lesson: For cities to be truly sustainable, they need to build crossings for their waterways that work for cleaner modes of transportation–not just cars. | Continue reading
The phone industry and regulators are struggling to contain robocalls that harangue consumers with billions of sleazy sales pitches and outright scams every month. | Continue reading
MissionU founder Adam Braun will become WeGrow’s COO, working alongside WeGrow CEO Rebekah Neumann. | Continue reading
The Facebook-owned company is working on a “Usage Insights” feature that will show users their “time spent.” | Continue reading
Now that weed is legal in California, people with old marijuana arrests can have their records cleared. Code for America, working with the SF District Attorney’s office, built a system to quickly find which people were eligible, and fill out their paperwork for them. | Continue reading
Transit X’s plan would set up fast-moving, solar-powered personal transit units to whisk you anywhere you wanted to go. | Continue reading
Those first few hours are when new hires will be looking signs that they made a bad choice in deciding to work for you. Here’s how to convince them otherwise. | Continue reading
That’s because most digital photocopies used by businesses have internal hard drives that save scans of every copy made. Yet when a business gets rid of the copier, they rarely ever wipe the machine’s internal hard drives. This means the next person that acquires that copier–or j … | Continue reading
Bike-share overcrowding has gotten so bad in some cities in China, authorities are impounding abandoned bikes, creating massive bike-share graveyards. | Continue reading
A federal judge pointed to heightened privacy concerns around digital data in declining the Trump administration’s bid to dismiss the case. | Continue reading
Back in 2015, Apple had announced that it would build a $1 billion data center in the Irish town of Athenry so it could take advantage of the green energy resources located close to the town. However, after planning appeals, mainly from two individuals, Apple has now canceled pla … | Continue reading
The collaboration between the Michael J. Fox Foundation and Verily will help gather constant data on people’s symptoms in the hopes of adding more understanding to the disease–and accelerating a cure. | Continue reading
Researchers at Musk-backed OpenAI propose a new way to tell if an AI is making the right decisions, and they released an online game to demonstrate the theory. | Continue reading
The marriage of two giants–a supplement maker and a wellness lifestyle site–catapulted Ancient Nutrition to success. Can it take its niche protein mainstream? | Continue reading
The beauty-box startup finally reached a deal, but it will leave some investors with nothing. Perhaps the problem wasn’t money. | Continue reading
Goodr has created a system that has diverted nearly a million pounds of food in Atlanta from landfills–and into kitchens. | Continue reading
Cambridge Analytica and affiliated companies are shutting down, though some of the key players are now linked to a new firm called Emerdata. | Continue reading
Direct-to-consumer startup Candid wants to make teeth straightening faster, easier, and affordable. Can we fix our teeth from the comfort of our homes? | Continue reading
We chat with aeronautical engineer Eric Allison, who’s leading Uber Elevate’s audacious plan to get flying car service airborne by 2023. | Continue reading
Web pages are on average twice as slow to load when their tracking software isn’t blocked, says a new study by Ghostery. | Continue reading
Apple stock has lost 8% of its value in the last two weeks leading up to the company’s Q2 earnings reveal. Here’s why. | Continue reading
The Orwellian-as-all-get-out practice is being conducted using “emotional surveillance technology” by both businesses in China and the country’s military, reports the South China Morning Post. The tech uses small wireless sensors embedded in employees’ hats that can monitor brain … | Continue reading
The technology behind cryptocurrency has the potential to revolutionize Hollywood and give creatives more freedom–it just needs to rebrand its image first. | Continue reading
With everyone touting their “amazing” culture it can be hard to tell who is telling the truth. Here are a few red flags to look for. | Continue reading
Much has been made of the end of the Nordic country’s experiment with giving some of its residents cash, but the program was actually a conservative welfare program that doesn’t say anything about the true UBI experiments in the works around the world. | Continue reading