ObserverTechnology How Goldman Sachs Can Regain User Trust After Apple Card Discriminationobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho Since news of the Apple Card’s gender discrimination broke last week, Goldman Sachs has been in damage control mode. The financial institute, which …
ObserverApps Apple Bans Vaping Content From App Store Amid Safety Concernsobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho Apple is the latest company to take a stance on the vaping argument. The tech giant announced it’s removing 181 iOS apps that promote or are related …
ObserverElon Musk Taxis Go Electric: Tesla Joins Cab Fleets in New York Cityobserver.com - Andy Hirschfeld New York City cabs are going electric. As first reported by Electrek, the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) has added the Tesla Model …
ObserverTechnology Telepathy Tech Is the Latest Sci-Fi Marvel to Emerge in the Real Worldobserver.com - Harmon Leon Well, this is really going to kill the magician card-trick trade. (“Is your card the three of clubs?”) Yes, computer-aided telepathy, via tiny, …
ObserverNeuralink Elon Musk Says Putting AI Chip in Your Brain Will Be as Simple as Lasikobserver.com - Sissi Cao Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk doesn’t often publicly talk about his low-profile side hustle at biotech startup Neuralink. But when he does, the news …
ObserverTechnology Peloton Expands Beyond the Luxury Market With Cheaper Exercise Machinesobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho Virtual fitness startup Peloton appears to be going after a new market. The maker of the indoor app-connected bike is set to introduce a lower-end …
ObserverTechnology After Facebook Libra and Apple’s Credit Card, We’ll Soon Have Google Checking Accountsobserver.com - Sissi Cao In September, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said at a business conference that he wouldn’t be surprised to see a hypothetical “bank of Google” in …
ObserverTechnology Nike Ditches Amazon Partnership to Sell Sneakers Directly to Customersobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho Nike wasn’t kidding about its strategy for a major digital overhaul of its business. The athletic wear company confirmed that it’s ending a pilot …
ObserverJohn Legere WeWork Wants to Replace Adam Neumann With Eccentric T-Mobile CEO John Legereobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho WeWork is reportedly considering an official replacement for ousted chief executive officer Adam Neumann, with the top candidate being T-Mobile USA …
ObserverTechnology New Survey Shows Most Americans Wrongfully Assume CBD Products Are FDA Approvedobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho Almost three quarters of American consumers presume CBD sales are being moderated by the government. As Forbes first reported, a new survey conducted …
ObserverIcon version of the Flipboard logoElon Musk Mini Cheetah Robots Could Be Elon Musk’s Worst Artificial Intelligence Nightmareobserver.com - Harmon Leon How many times can I say it—over and over again, until it becomes like mental nails against a mental chalkboard? We all know the quote from Elon Musk …
ObserverTechnology New Study: Discontinued Mint, Mango Juul Pods Were Magic for Quitting Smokingobserver.com - Chris Roberts Juul is in trouble—losing money, shedding hundreds of employees, besieged by lawsuits and possibly about to be regulated out of existence by the …
ObserverTechnology This Rideshare Service Wants to Take You Back in Time With Just a Clickobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho If Boardwalk Empire had a rideshare service, it would probably look a lot like Nowaday. The new service, launching in New York City on Tuesday, puts a …
ObserverTesla Elon Musk’s Passive-Aggressive Twitter Fight With Tesla Short Seller Moves to Round 2observer.com - Sissi Cao Last week, Elon Musk, while in a very good mood, wrote a passive-aggressive letter on Twitter to Tesla short seller David Einhorn, president of New …
ObserverTechnology Sex Workers Are at the Forefront of the Fight Against Mass Surveillance and Big Techobserver.com - Erin Taylor Last week, sex workers, researchers, journalists, law students and allies met in a lecture room of Austin Hall at Harvard University for …
ObserverInstacart Instacart Workers Say Delivery Service Has Cut Yet Another Wage of Theirsobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho Instacart has cut yet another source of income from its workers’ pay structure. Following a three day walk-off by its Shoppers last week, the grocery …
ObserverElon Musk How AI and Facial Recognition Are Impacting the Future of Bankingobserver.com - Harmon Leon So, I just got the new iPhone 11 Pro. I have to say, I pretty much love the facial recognition unlock feature. And no, Apple is not paying me to say …
ObserverTechnology Apple’s New Credit Card Is Under Fire for Gender Discriminationobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho It didn’t take long for Apple’s Goldman Sachs partnership to backfire. It all began last Thursday, when Basecamp co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson …
ObserverTechnology Don’t Want to Use AI? Too Late.observer.com - John A. Tures Don’t want to use artificial intelligence (AI)? Afraid to try it, or suspicious of it taking over the world? Too bad… you’ve probably already …
ObserverFood & Dining This Brooklyn Startup Is Making Vodka ‘Out of Thin Air’observer.com - Gabriela Barkho When life gives you carbon dioxide, turn it into vodka—or at least that’s the idea behind the latest unveiling in the food and beverage …
ObserverTechnology What on Earth Is a Data Scientist? The Buzzword’s Inventor DJ Patil Spills Allobserver.com - Sissi Cao If you have paid even the slightest attention to the job market lately, you might have noticed a stirring trend in hiring these days: every …
ObserverTechnology First WeWork Lawsuit Involving the Unicorn’s Botched IPO Is Hereobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho Former WeWork employees are getting in line to roast the unicorn’s failed IPO. As The Information first reported, one of the company’s former …
ObserverTechnology It May Actually Be Good That E-Cigs Are More Addictive Than Tobacco—But Juul Ruined Itobserver.com - Chris Roberts Everybody hates Juul, a “bad company run by bad people,” according to Gizmodo’s increasingly difficult-to-dispute analysis, and an outfit possessed …
ObserverTesla Elon Musk Burns Tesla Disbeliever on Twitter, Offers to Gift Short Shorts (Again)observer.com - Sissi Cao Billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn, president of Greenlight Capital and a high-profile short seller of Tesla stock, has suffered a few …
ObserverTechnology Uber’s CEO Really, Really, Really Doesn’t Like WeWork Comparisonsobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho It seems everyone is distancing their business models from WeWork these days. And it’s not just real estate unicorns like Compass out to prove their …
ObserverTechnology Uber Faces Yet Another Scandal After Disastrous Q3, Stock Plummetsobserver.com - Sissi Cao It’s been a rough week for Uber since it posted another money-losing quarter and its trading lock-up period expired for early investors. But the …
ObserverFood & Dining Inside Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick’s Virtual Kitchen Startupobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho Travis Kalanick has been busy since leaving Uber back in 2017. The former CEO of the ride-share service now runs a virtual kitchen startup, …
ObserverTechnology How Google’s Fitbit Acquisition Will Help It Further Compete With Appleobserver.com - Gabriela Barkho Last week’s announcement that Google would be acquiring fitness tracking company Fitbit left the wearables industry concerned about a potential …
ObserverTechnology CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Explains Uber’s Epic Stock Crash This Weekobserver.com - Sissi Cao The 2019 tech IPO scene is quickly devolving from land of opportunity to a horror show. This week alone, shares of Uber, the most hyped IPO at the …
