Berbix, a company founded by two ex-Airbnb staffers, announced Thursday that it will now offer individuals a way to verify the identities of people they meet online. Online businesses have a number of ways to verify digital identities for purely online transactions, but some of our online transactions—such as online dating and Craigslist sales—often lead to real-world contact with people we barely know. Little wonder, then, that identity fraud cost Americans about $56 billion in 20
Elon Musk is one of the most widely spoken about people in the world, the richest person in the world ($266 billion), and the man behind Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and now Twitter (as reported in Jeff Bezos’s Washington Post). His seemingly spontaneous and unfiltered tweets (which included calling a cave explorer who rescued trapped kids in Thailand a “pedo guy” and challenging Vladimir Putin to a “combat fight”) led both The Economist and The New York Times to
As the war in Ukraine rages on, people around the world continue to look to the sky for information. An unprecedented number of so-called very-high resolution (VHR) satellite images have been marshaled to document and communicate to the public the brutality of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The images conveyed are jarring: burning buildings, destroyed bridges, mass graves. But there is more than meets the eye to mapping the consequences of this (or any) war with satellite images. It 
In 2019, the The New York Times’s T Brand Studio debuted its first-ever branded custom podcast, a six-part series called The Special, which was created for its advertising partner BMW. In the three years since, they’ve launched many more—including Accenture’s Built for Change and Why Women Kill for CBS , the latter of which made Spotify’s best-of short list in the true crime category. More than a dozen years after its first editorial podcast, The New York Times
When Twitter announced on Monday that it had agreed to sell itself to Elon Musk, its press release included a statement from Musk about his hopes for the acquisition. It was a statement from which one word was conspicuously missing: “profit.” While Musk did mention his plans to improve the Twitter user experience, he made it clear that he isn’t spending $46 billion to acquire the company because he wants to get rich (or, rather, to get richer than he already is). He’s
Amid all the hubbub of excitement and consternation around Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s founder, issued a puzzling tweet: “In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.” Seriously? Light of consciousnes
Remote physical therapy provider Hinge Health announced Wednesday a new program focused on improving access to pelvic physical therapy for women, designed by a team of women. The women’s pelvic health program is meant to help address common pelvic floor disorders such as pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence. One in four women have a pelvic floor disorder and experience urinary incontinence at some point. Karen Stander, VP of physical therapy at Hinge Health, says the company began devel
Once upon a time, Slack was a sort of Switzerland of workplace productivity—a central collaborative hub that offered an array of integrations with other business tools rather than competing with them or treating one third-party offering differently than another. But the company entered a new era in December 2020, when it agreed to sell itself to software-as-a-service giant Salesforce for $27.7 billion. And today, at Salesforce’s TrailblazerDX ’22 conference, Slack and Salesf
The cybersecurity company Trellix says pro-Russia hackers had infiltrated the networks of numerous Ukrainian government agencies long before Russia’s ground invasion started in late February. In fact, hackers had planted malicious code in the networks even before Russian troops began assembling at the Ukrainian border in 2021. These findings were part of a broader report on the global cyberthreat environment from San Jose, California-based Trellix, which was created last year via a merger
While Elon Musk was making his bid for Twitter, another social media app has quietly moved to the top of the App Store rankings: Truth Social, the platform launched by former president Donald Trump after he received a permanent ban from Twitter for his role in inciting the January 6, 2021, insurrection. Among the top free iPhone apps available on the App Store, Truth Social has been seeing the most installs overall on the U.S. App Store today. (Twitter is No. 2.) According to Mobile Insights Str