Web3, the decentralized technology that prides itself on being accessible to everyone, has a problem. Women continue to remain underrepresented and excluded as both leaders and industry participants. The numbers don’t lie: Only a staggering
The end of the multi-decade-old MetroCard system is nigh. Last month, the MTA announced MetroCard vending machines would be totally replaced with One Metro New York, or OMNY, kiosks starting in 2023, which would push New Yorkers toward the new tap-to-enter system.
The subway might be badly in need of a tech update, but the new system threatens an inescapable tracking regime that puts our very freedom at risk.
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