The next time you need a company’s contact number and don’t want to bother navigating through labyrinthine websites, head to the Elliot Advocacy Contact List instead. Here you’ll find the customer service numbers for hundreds of companies, sorted into categories, such as airlines, cable providers, hotels, and computer makers. The site also has some helpful
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The hottest accessory for any billionaire tech entrepreneur these days is a prestige limited series about their company. Shows like this year’s Super Pumped, WeCrashed, and The Dropout have become a genre unto themselves, illuminating the rocky terrain of any tech unicorn’s trajecto
Where can you see Hillary Clinton going to clown school in Paris while wearing, yes, a clown nose?
The answer is Gutsy, the new docuseries from the former U.S. Secretary of State and her daughter, Chelsea, which debuts on Apple TV+ on September 9.
“[There are] things I did on this show that I not only hadn’t done before, but never thought I would do,” Hillary Clinton tells me, “and the clown nose ranks right up there.”
The show,
Beneath its cheery veneer, Apple’s iPhone 14 keynote was unusually dark.
From the outset, the company seemed to be warning users that danger lurks everywhere. Its opening Apple Watch montage had
Who gets to know where you are? The question is at the heart of a new lawsuit by the US Federal Trade Commission against a little-known Idaho-based ad tech company, Kochava, which regulators accuse of unfairly selling the timestamped location information of millions of Americans. But before government lawyers could file suit last week, the company sued the FTC, calling the agency’s structure unconstitutional and claiming the company broke no laws. The back-and-forth has set up a showdo
Uber is doubling down on efforts to use autonomous vehicles for its delivery service.
The company announced today a 10-year partnership with Nuro, an autonomous electric vehicle maker. Uber Eats and Nuro will launch the delivery offering this fall in Mountain View, California, and Houston, Texas, with plans to later expand its service to the greater Bay Area.
Uber has been turning to partnerships to cement its presence in the autonomous
The novel coronavirus is an airborne respiratory pathogen that infects us through our mouths, throats, and noses. So it makes sense that a key way to prevent the coronavirus from wreaking true havoc inside of us is to stop its advance at the front gate.
That’s exactly why this week’s news that China had authorized
Albedo has announced a $48 million Series A raise, in a round co-led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Silicon Valley-based Shield Capital. The Austin- and Denver-based satellite startup has now raised $58 million less than two years since its founding. Complementing Albedo’s big round is a padded out cap table.
The startup is a Y Combinator alum, graduating from the accelerator’s Winter 2021 (W21) batch. New backers announced today include Repub
With recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics technology, there is growing interest in developing and marketing household robots capable of handling a variety of domestic chores.
Tesla is building a humanoid robot, which, according to CEO Elon Musk, could be used for cooking meals and helping elderly people. Amazon recently