They’re here, and nothing to panic over. But they do raise lots of intriguing questions, and might be a precursor of bigger changes to come.
Want to freak out a bunch of Twitter users? Easy: Just give them the sense that Twitter is about to change in some fundamental way, without providing much in the way of concrete details.
A personal tragedy was one of the motivations for Jeff Huber to seek out his new role as CEO of Illumina spinout Grail.
For many oncologists, the holy grail of medicine is a blood test that can detect cancer before symptoms arise. But developing such a test is a daunting challenge.
What happens when a music-deprived home is suddenly wired up with Sonos speakers and Apple Music? More sex, for starters.
Well, here you are once again, staring at a screen. It’s okay, we all do it. Constantly. In fact, there’s a good chance you’re sitting in a room with somebody else who is also gazing into the blue light of a smartphone or some other gadget right now. All of this technology, the common complaint goes, appears to be driving a wedge between us.
Companies should be required to encrypt data in transit and promptly fix vulnerabilities, wrote Twitter’s Michael Coates on Medium.
Twitter’s security chief called for greater regulation of Internet security in a Google-sponsored cybersecurity roundtable discussion hosted on Medium this week.
In his defense of Facebook’s Free Basics Internet service, Andreessen suggested India was better off under colonial rule.
Venture capitalist and Facebook board member Marc Andreessen was, unsurprisingly, disappointed that India’s telecom regulator recently thwarted Facebook’s plans to expand Free Basics, the company’s free but limited Internet service aimed at developing markets. On Tuesday, Andreessen turned to Twitter to air his grievances:
Through the partnership, the companies are hoping to develop new screening tests.
One in eight couples struggles to conceive, according to the CDC. But though it’s a common problem, scientists are still far away from understanding how a person’s genes impacts their fertility.
Investors have been selling off Tesla stock due to fears that the electric carmaker can’t stick to production timelines.
Before announcing ugly earnings numbers Wednesday, Tesla dropped the news that it will roll out a prototype of its much-anticipated new “mass market” vehicle, the M3, in just a few weeks on March 1.
During Twitter’s fourth-quarter earnings announcement, the company reported troubling user numbers, as well as its agenda for 2016.
Twitter revealed startling data on Wednesday: for the fourth quarter of 2015, the social network’s total number of monthly active users remained completely flat, at 320 million. Excluding SMS Fast Followers, who access Twitter solely via text message, the total number of monthly active users actually declined, from 307 million to 305 million. In the United States, the number of active users fell from 66 million to 65 million.
In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg distanced himself—and Facebook—from Andreessen’s tone-deaf comments from earlier today.
Mark Zuckerberg did damage control through a pandering Facebook post this afternoon, in which he denounced Facebook board member Marc Andreessen’s comments defending colonialism in India.
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