WeWork’s Failure is SoftBank’s Day Of Reckoning
VCs have always played a long-shot game, where the rewards from backing a few breakout winners outweigh the losses associated with the vast majority of […]
An App to Help Jet Lag, the World’s Oldest Tupperware, and More News
Jet lag could be a thing of the past, Neanderthals may have been smarter than we thought, and the feds took down a massive child-porn […]
How Salesforce Closed the Pay Gap Between Men and Women
Upon hearing this, I’ll admit I started thinking like the CEO of a publicly traded company. What if they’re right? I wondered. Could it be […]
Facial Recognition, a 2-Hour Marathon, and More News
Cities struggle to regulate facial-recognition technology, Eliud Kipchoge prepares for an epic race, and Tern’s new folding bike makes getting around a snap. Here’s the […]
USB-C Has Finally Come Into Its Own
The Surface Pro 7. The Kindle Fire HD 10. The PlayStation 5. All major gadgets announced or detailed this week, each with a bevy of […]
An AI Pioneer Wants His Algorithms to Understand the 'Why'
Deep learning is good at finding patterns in reams of data, but can’t explain how they’re connected. Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio wants to change […]
HP Omen X 2S Review: A Secondary Screen Doubles Your Gaming Pleasure
We can start with the honorifics. HP calls the Omen X 2S the “world’s first dual-screen gaming laptop”—presumably with no apologies whatsoever to the Asus […]
When Do You Disclose That You’re Transgender in Tech?
I am terrified of being unemployed. As a transgender woman, I know that I am at risk of becoming a statistic, among those unemployed at […]
Inside Pioneer: May the Best Silicon Valley Hustler Win
Even founder Daniel Gross has a hard time explaining Pioneer. Over the course of one phone call, he compared it to Fortnite Battle Royale, Airbnb, […]
6 Best Game Controllers (2019): PC, Xbox, PS4, Switch
For a certain generation, there is a vile word that conjures up an icy dread. The name of a cursed thing, a monster of cheap […]