Technology Silicon Valley Has Invented ShoesThe Atlantic - Amanda MullStart-ups like Allbirds and Rothy’s are beating fashion at its own game. The first time I tried on a pair of Allbirds sneakers, I was in the brand’s San Francisco boutique, sitting on a gently curved stool
Waze Waze Wants to Help All of Us Win at CarpoolingWIRED - Aarian Marshall Recently I downloaded an app that was supposed to help me find people to carpool with. I'm not someone who relishes the idea of coordinating with …
LA’s Plan to Reboot Its Bus System—Using Cell Phone DataWIRED - Adam Rogers The gray buses that roll along Los Angeles' Orange Line don't look like other buses: They're 60 feet long, and their streamlined design means they …
Elon Musk Elon Musk to announce full autonomy for Teslas despite expert skepticismAxios Amid skepticism, Tesla CEO Elon Musk today will unveil a plan to bring full autonomy to his electric cars, making them truly driverless vehicles, AP …
Tablets The shockingly simple way to make packaging more sustainableFast Company - Elizabeth SegranYour home cleaning products have a major carbon footprint. Several startups want to popularize a clever solution: Remove the water. If you quickly scan through the products under your sink–counter spray,
Technology Why philosophy and business should go hand in handTNW - Jonathan LøwBusiness people and entrepreneurs like myself often talk about ‘nice to have’ and ‘need to have.’ The latter refers to things you cannot do without. In a start-up IT company like mine, this could be things
Sri Lanka Sri Lankan government blocks social media and imposes curfew following deadly blastsThe Washington Post - By Jennifer Hassan, Niha Masih, Tony RommThe Sri Lankan government blocked access to Facebook and other social-networking sites Sunday after suicide attacks killed more than 290 people, a move meant to stop misinformation from inciting further
Google Here's How Google Knows in Less Than 5 Minutes if Someone Is a Great LeaderInc Magazine - By Jeff HadenGreat companies are built by great leaders. (That's why the ability to identify and attract talented people is almost as critical as the ability to develop talented people.) But since leadership is more
Microsoft Microsoft wants to unleash its AI expertise on climate changeFast Company - Eillie AnzilottiIn a broad new set of sustainability commitments, the company wants to use its tech to develop tools to monitor and find insights in environmental data. In 2012, before declaring your company “carbon was
Artificial Intelligence We’ve been warned about AI and music for over 50 years, but no one’s preparedThe Verge - Dani Deahl‘This road is literally being paved as we’re walking on it’ AI is capable of making music, but does that make AI an artist? As AI begins to reshape how music is made, our legal systems are going to be
New Zealand Silicon Valley Came to Kansas Schools. That Started a Rebellion.The New York Times - By NELLIE BOWLESWELLINGTON, Kan. — The seed of rebellion was planted in classrooms. It grew in kitchens and living rooms, in conversations between students and their parents. It culminated when Collin Winter, 14, an grader
Tesla What if Elon Musk’s $420 dream hadn’t gone up in smoke?The Verge - Sean O'KaneLooking back at the version of Tesla that could have been Last August, Elon Musk tweeted he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private. That turned out not to be true, and he eventually had to settle
Huawei CIA Offers Proof Huawei Has Been Funded By China's Military And IntelligenceForbes - Zak DoffmanIn the battle between Washington and Huawei, there has long been the taunt from Shenzhen that U.S. officials have failed to produce any evidence of actual collusion between the telecom equipment giant
Technology Security flaw in French government messaging app exposed confidential conversationsTechCrunch - Romain DilletThe French government just launched its own messaging app called Tchap in order to protect conversations from hackers, private companies and foreign entities. But Elliot Alderson, also known as Baptiste
Play buttonEnvironment Extinction Rebellion day five centres on tussle for control of Oxford CircusThe Guardian - Jonathan Watts and Damien GayleThe siege of the Berta Cáceres started started shortly after noon when police in high-vis jackets surrounded the bright pink boat in Oxford Circus, central London, with two cordons and then steadily peeled
Jack Dorsey Jack Dorsey Is Captain of the Twittanic at TED 2019WIRED - Emily Dreyfuss On Tuesday, Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, came to TED 2019 to answer for the sins of his platform. In his signature black hoodie and jeans, …
Global Warming Surprise! Satellites show that thermometers don’t lieArs Technica - Scott K. Johnson If anything, Aqua satellite data actually shows slightly more warming. Taking a human’s temperature is easy. Taking a pet’s temperature is similarly …
Technology Facebook security lapse affects millions more Instagram users than first statedThe Guardian - Kari PaulFacebook chose one of the busiest news days in American politics this year to admit that millions more Instagram users were affected by a security lapse than it had previously disclosed. At 10 am ET on
Fake Reviews Fake reviews: How the Facebook 'factories' are still ripping us offThe Guardian - Rupert JonesConsumers continue to risk being ripped off as a result of fake review “factories” on Facebook that manufacture misleading Amazon product reviews, says Which? It told Guardian Money that “nearly all” the
Technology Amazon will no longer sell Chinese goods in ChinaCNN - By Daniel Shane, CNN BusinessHong Kong (CNN Business) — Amazon is partially retreating from the world's biggest market for online shopping. It will close its marketplace in China in the coming months, meaning Amazon customers in country
Mark Zuckerberg Facebook fights to “shield Zuckerberg” from punishment in US privacy probeArs Technica - Jon Brodkin Facebook/FTC settlement could include "heightened oversight" of Zuckerberg. Federal Trade Commission officials are discussing whether to hold Facebook …
Uber Uber raises $1 billion for its self-driving unitAxios - Kia Kokalitcheva Uber on Thursday night confirmed that it has raised $1 billion for its autonomous driving unit at a post-money valuation of $7.25 billion. Why it …
Technology A Bill Gates speech inspired Zoom founder to start an internet business—now he's a billionaireCNBC - Tom Huddleston Jr. When Eric Yuan was in his early 20s, he heard a speech from then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates about the promise of the internet, and Yuan decided he …
Play buttonSamsung Galaxy Fold Samsung Galaxy Fold review: broken dreamThe Verge - Dieter BohnThe future is still very fragile This is going to be a weird review. It’ll be weird because, as I’m sure you’ve heard, several reviewers have experienced their Galaxy Fold review unit screens breaking
Waymo Robo-Rigs: The Scientist, The Unicorn And The $700 Billion Race To Create Self-Driving Semi-TrucksForbes - Alan OhnsmanSoutheast of Tucson’s airport, tucked into a patch of Sonoran Desert dotted with cholla cactus and paloverde trees, is a sand-colored industrial building with a horizontal emerald-green slash over the
The Pirate Bay Lives On, A Decade After ‘Guilty’ Verdictstorrentfreak.com - Andy On the morning of March 3, 2009, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström, were all waiting for the final day in the …
Sleep You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing YouWIRED - Emily Dreyfuss The whole world is exhausted. And it’s killing us. But particularly me. As I write this, I’m at TED 2019 in Vancouver, which is a weeklong marathon of …
Tesla Model 3 The Mystery Of Tesla Model 3 Demandcleantechnica.com - Alex Voigt Demand is a mystery that can only be measured once supply is provided, and at that point, it's not demand anymore. You only know what demand you …
Unicorns Tech’s new stars have it all—except a path to high profitsThe Economist INVESTORS OFTEN describe the world of business in terms of animals, such as bears, bulls, hawks, doves and dogs. Right now, mere ponies are being …
New York City Council New York’s Aggressive Climate Law Takes Aim at SkyscrapersWIRED - Adam Rogers On Thursday, the New York City Council voted into law a sweeping set of rules to fight climate change, a metropolis-scaled version of a Green New …
