Dave Vos, the head of Google X’s Project Wing drone delivery program, says drones are safer than commercial aircraft.
Look up into the sky in 2017 and you could see drone deliveries happening on a regular basis, says Dave Vos, the head of Google X’s Project Wing drone delivery program. “Moving people and stuff around the planet in an efficient way is where I want to get,” Vos told an audience at an Aero Club aviation industry event in Washington, D.C., earlier this week.
The price for creativity and innovation: 1 in 10 funded projects never deliver to backers.
It started like a typical Kickstarter success story. A startup raised almost $1.5 million last fall for tiny new wireless headphones that claimed to be the first that could charge through a phone. They promised delivery a month later. But Apple didn’t approve the device, so everyone who wanted the headphones for their iPhone will get headphones that don’t work as advertised—if they get them at all. Nothing has shipped yet.
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A Gilead executive was questioned by protesters at a health care conference in San Francisco.
Pharmaceutical company executives were grilled by protesters at an industry conference in San Francisco this week for hiking the prices of life-saving drugs.
To cap off his final State of the Union, Obama will chat with YouTube stars Adande Thorne, Destin Sandlin, and Ingrid Nilsen.
For the second year running, President Obama will sit down with three YouTube stars after his State of the Union address—which airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. EST—to discuss the issues facing young Americans.
The president will focus on the future, with a nod to accomplishments, in his speech. Plus: a look at his SOTU Address wins and losses.
In his final State of the Union address tonight, President Obama has promised to focus on “the big things” in “the years to come” and is expected to tout recent positive job numbers as proof that the economy has recovered. He also will likely spotlight his recent executive actions on gun violence and progress in the fight against ISIS.
T-Mobile CEO John Legere apologized for lashing out at the Electronic Frontier Foundation—but he stands by the “Binge On” program.
An open letter by John Legere, T-Mobile’s outspoken and often profane CEO, cements what he has been saying for weeks—that he really wants you to use “Binge On,” a new streaming feature that has taken heat for allegedly slowing down video download speeds. Binge On allows T-Mobile customers to stream content from specific video and audio partners without eating into their data plans.
Massive Labs, led by the head of Stanford’s Design School, thinks it can build a product design company without VC money.
Launching a company in Silicon Valley these days, though much less expensive than a decade ago, is still a complex process, particularly when it comes to designing and selling physical goods rather than software.
In his final State of the Union address, the president painted a hopeful picture of America in contrast to that depicted by Donald Trump.
President Obama got some of his old oratorial flair and political grit back tonight during his final State of the Union address, determined to establish his own legacy, and painting the GOP as the “fear party.”
Obama gives his blessing to an ambitious immunotherapy program against cancer, with Biden leading the government’s initiative.
It wasn’t expected to be a major State of the Union address—a final speech from a president in his last term, recounting achievements and expressing hope for the future. And then Obama made some news: “Let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all.” And to lead the administration’s effort, the president picked VP Joe Biden, who recently lost his son Beau to cancer, and who has said that finding a cure is one of his major life goals.
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