Sheryl Sandberg announced in a Facebook post Wednesday that her 14-year tenure with Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has come to an end. In 2008, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg recruited Sandberg, who had served at Google, to come in and build the advertising business, which targets ads based on the personal data the platform aggressively collects from a user pool that’s now swelled to nearly three billion. Sandberg’s power in the company only increased, and she continued to make st
The nature of the digital world is that organizations, people, software, and devices are connected. This is what enables digital experiences, from business analytics to gaming and shopping. But with millions of digital interactions happening every second, we’ve reached a scale that is difficult to comprehend, with almost limitless interdependencies. This creates an ever-expanding attack surface with more and more vulnerabilities. For example, today there are 921 password attacks every sec
It’s just over seven months since Mark Zuckerberg declared Facebook’s parent company would be renamed Meta. For many people, the whole concept of the metaverse is still a bit hazy. But as companies and early adopters take part in virtual land grabs, and virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) companies rush to grow their customer base, the virtual world already appears to be adopting many of the worst behaviors of the real one. A report from corporate accountability group S
On a sweaty evening last July, Rent the Runway CEO Jennifer Hyman was having a glass of rosé on the steel patio overlooking the small backyard behind her brownstone in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Her three-year-old daughter, Selene (“Seeley”), sat on her lap, while Aurora, five, played with the straps of her mother’s sleeveless patterned shirt. (The top, from the brand Warm, is available to rent—or buy for $337.50—on Rent the Runway). Through the glass doors th
There have been a number of high-profile electric vehicles in recent years, from the Tesla Model S to the Ford F-150 Lightning and the Chevy Bolt EV. With many models now pushing upwards of the 300-mile range, electric vehicles are looking increasingly more practical. And with gas prices soaring, they also look more economical. But you still pay a substantial premium on most EVs. And even with government subsidies, it can take several years for the lower fuel and maintenance costs associated wit
When an indescribable tragedy was inflicted upon Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, we saw the predictable platitudes. We saw well-worn promises of changes that will never come. And we saw growing frustration that so many political leaders are willing to sacrifice children on the altar of the Second Amendment. But we also saw a comparatively newer element of the post-shooting ritual rear its ugly head: the increasingly insistent claims that technology can magically keep our kids safe. It w
Virtually everyone can articulate one of healthcare’s myriad issues: it’s expensive, feels impersonal and corporate, and confronts people with cascading folios of options and choices they’re not prepared for. From my years of working in this space, I might summarize all these issues under the umbrella term of “uncertainty”—that is, the converse of assurance and peace of mind. Uncertainty runs deep in this industry. Patients, sensing (correctly) that ther
The COVID-19 vaccines that we now have are very good at blunting the impact of the virus once it enters the body, preventing serious illness and death. But fast-spreading newer strains, such as delta and omicron, have brought renewed calls for development of vaccines that can do more—that can stop the virus as it attempts to enter the body, keeping an individual’s viral load extremely low, and drastically reducing their ability to transmit COVID -19 to someone else. Instead of a ja
There are several mushroom coffee companies on the market these days—coffee substitutes consisting of special types of fungi that purportedly boost energy and enhance clarity, like caffeine but without the jitters. Some employees at the mushroom coffee brand MUD\WTR are taking it one step further, adding small amounts of hallucinogenic mushrooms to their morning brew. To be clear, MUD\WTR does not include psychedelics in the mushroom coffee it sells—yet. If the legal landscape chan
I’m down here in Florida (it’s really hot) helping my Dad out. He had a stroke a few months back and just got sprung from his rehab place. He’s back home now and happy to be here, but he needs help and has very little mobility on his right side. The fear of him falling when nobody’s around is very real, so he needs an easy way to ask for help in case of emergency. I naturally immediately Googled “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” to remi