Stock trading app Robinhood wants its users to start planning for retirement. The San Francisco-based company announced today that it’s launching retirement accounts, allowing day traders and others to start saving via IRAs and Roth IRAs, a move that puts the platform in more direct competition with traditional brokerages.
The new retirement accounts will let users invest in stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Robinhood does not require an account minimum to get started
For many people, Facebook is the chief source of information in today’s world. But in a statement Monday, Meta threatened to pull all news off its flagship social media platform.
It was a shot across the bow that confused a lot of users. At its heart is a bill making its way through Congress, which Meta and Mark Zuckerberg feel diminishes the value the social media platform provides to news outlets.
Andy Stone, Meta’s policy-communications director, issued th
It is common to hear news reports about large data breaches, but what happens once your personal data is stolen? Our research shows that, like most legal commodities, stolen data products flow through a supply chain consisting of producers, wholesalers, and consumers. But this supply chain involves the interconnection of multiple criminal organizations operating in illicit underground marketplaces.
The stolen data supply chain begins with producers—hackers who explo
Uber and Motional announced Wednesday they’re kicking off their self-driving offering in Las Vegas, two months after the companies inked a 10-year deal to offer driverless rides and deliveries.
Customers aren’t able to book the autonomous vehicles directly. Rather, they’ll have to select the “UberX” or “Uber Comfort Electric” options for a chance to be matched with a Motional vehicle. If one of its self-driving cars is available, cust
Does your workplace belong in the metaverse? Should AI be allowed to run with agency and scale? How hard should bosses fight hard to retain “10x engineers”? Management consultancy Deloitte addresses these questions in its 14th annual “Tech Trends” report, released today, which aims to identify advancements expected to be “consequential to business transformation over the next 18 to 24 months.”
Fast Company spoke to Deloitte’s Chief Fu
During her time aboard the International Space Station, former astronaut Cady Coleman became the self-appointed Clean Gym Clothes Police. Daily grueling workouts to keep muscles from atrophying in microgravity produced impressively sweaty workout gear, which the (mostly male) crew would reuse long after its expiration date.
“We weren’t supposed to use them longer than a week or two. But despite having a lot of gym clothes onboard, some of the crew were pleased to be co
A new T-Mobile report has some unexpectedly nice things to say about their competitor Verizon—but cable companies will find it less heartwarming reading.
T-Mobile’s 2022 State of Fixed Wireless report, released today, draws on third-party research as well as the carrier’s own data to chart the growth of fixed wireless access (FWA) connecting homes instead of smartphones.
In terms of total subscribers, FWA has taken off over the last year at T-Mobile, w
AI tools are increasingly being used to create movies, music, and images. A new film festival plans to put such works front and center.
Runway ML, the artificial intelligence startup that was instrumental in creating the text-to-image tool Stable Diffusion, began taking submissions today for an AI Film Festival slated for February that will only showcase movies created with the help of AI. The company’s founders have been thinking about the idea for years, and with AI-generat
Last week, I wrote an article calling out Apple’s Messages for its backup’s lack of end-to-end encryption on iCloud. Because the iCloud backups of a user’s Apple Messages were merely encrypted and not end-to-end encrypted, I advised individuals—such as activists and journalists—who wanted the most privacy and security for their text messages to ditch Apple Messages for Meta’s WhatsApp, which does end-to-end encrypt message backups.
Today, my
