Elizabeth Holmes, the onetime superstar entrepreneur who descended into Silicon Valley infamy after her blood-testing company, Theranos, was revealed to have touted false claims about its technology, was sentenced to 11.25 years in prison on Friday.
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila delivered the sentence in a packed courtroom, according to journalists present at the hearing, with Holmes, who is pregnant, responding in tears, “I tried to realize my dream too quickly and did t
Apparently the holidays are in full swing: Our mailbox is chockablock with a steadily increasing number of catalogs, flyers, and other unwanted detritus every day.
There’s really nothing like a wasted trip to the mailbox, either, especially as it’s getting colder outside. So, if you’re looking to cut down on dubious mail, here’s a handful of places you can go to opt out.
General junk mail
DMA stands for the Direct Marketing Association,
This article is about one of the honorees of Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech awards for 2022. Read about all the winners here.
In just a few years, drones have gone from a futuristic, Jetsons-like idea to something that’s routinely delivering your Hamburger Helper.
Part of that success is thanks to drone operator DroneUp, which has been working with Walmart to get consumers in a handful of states their lightweight goods in as little as half a
This article is about one of the honorees of Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech awards for 2022. Read about all the winners here.
In a shipping container next to a PepsiCo bottling plant in Fresno, California, a startup called Aquacycl is working with the food giant to pioneer new technology that can help tackle one of the lesser-known sources of climate emissions: cleaning up industrial wastewater.
“Globally, water and wastewater treatment acco
It’s been two years since Alexis Gay quit her career in tech to plunge headfirst into comedy, and, if she’s being honest, that reckless confidence you feel pivoting away from something practical toward your passion has “a different vibe” now. “When there was nothing to lose, it was much easier. I was worse at it, but it was much easier,” Gay says. “I have to almost re-break through the same fear and vulnerability that I had to when I first star
This article was adapted from the MidRange newsletter, which published tips on the Mastodon social media network in a pop-up newsletter format called How to Mastodon.
There are a lot of things I could tell you about Mastodon, the social network that has seen an uptake by millions of people in the three or so weeks since Elon Musk officially bought Twitter. The technical differences are significant, and so too is the mindset about things like search.
As someone who has been
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I have orphaned lists lying uncompleted in apps like Remember the Milk, Toodledo, and Any.do. I’ve played with Things and TickTick. I used to like Wunderlist (RIP). All were nice and shiny for a while.
Each has a slick landing page, oodles of features and thousands of diehard
The advent of child monitoring software sacrificed teens physical safety and independence in the name of online safety. Now, with a renewed focus on children’s privacy legislation this fall, the U.S. risks codifying those dynamics under the force of law.
Most of us agree that spying applications shouldn’t track survivors of abuse and journalists, but companies are selling the idea that this dangerous technology belongs on kids’ phones. “There is no differ
Hermeus, a startup building a hypersonic aircraft capable of traveling five times the speed of sound, has completed a major milestone in engine testing. The company successfully demonstrated that its engine can transition from turbojet—like what’s used in passenger aircraft—to ramjet, a much more powerful engine technology.
Hermeus 101
The Atlanta-based startup is moving fast in every sense of the word. The founders came onto the sce
There’s no question that the COVID-19 pandemic affirmed one of the greatest failures in the American healthcare system: too often your health is determined by your zip code.As providers, we are moving to a more holistic approach to care and maintaining health, strategies that have been turbocharged since the pandemic revealed terrible fault lines in outcomes based on race and ethnicity. African-Americans have been twice as likely to die as white Americans in the pandemic.Emerging resea