Just hope the person above you isn’t a messy eater.
As you’ve noticed, airlines are always trying to squeeze the most out of every available inch of space in planes. So why should they waste all that valuable headroom over the middle section of an airplane cabin? That must be the thinking behind a patent application from Airbus, which stacks seats—and the passengers in them—double height.
The carrier will equip its entire fleet with free high-speed, in-flight Wi-Fi by fall 2016. Stream to your heart’s content, friends.
While airlines continue to make a business of nickel and diming customers for just about everything from checked luggage to leg room (and you will be uncomfortable regardless), JetBlue has announced a move toward a more humane air travel experience: free high-speed Wi-Fi on all of its planes.
The online-storage kingpin is revealing details about its tool for team-based document creation.
For months, Dropbox has been teasing something it’s been working on: “a new way for teams to write together.” It’s been quietly testing the service with a small group of users and hasn’t told the rest of us much about it other than its name, Dropbox Notes.
NBC’s new service, called Seeso, will be ad-free and cost $3.99 a month.
Television giant NBC is trying a bold experiment: Charging viewers, at a discount price, to watch comedy shows online. To sweeten the deal, NBC promises access to exclusive series that won’t be on YouTube or Hulu. The new service, called Seeso, will cost $3.99 monthly and offer episodes and clips from current NBC sitcoms and late-night shows like The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and classics like The Office, The Kids in the Hall, and Saved by the Bell.
With the film Beasts of No Nation, debuting Friday, Netflix is upending the movie business. And Angelina Jolie is part of the plan.
Back in March, when Netflix paid a reported $12 million for Cary Fukunaga‘s indie film Beasts of No Nation, the movie industry was rocked.
A damning WSJ report suggests major problems at Elizabeth Holmes’s medical startup Theranos.
On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal published a troubling report that questions the accuracy and success of blood tests created by Theranos, a medical technology company helmed by Elizabeth Holmes, who founded the startup in 2003 as a 19-year-old student at Stanford University. According to the WSJ, the company’s technology—which Theranos says can run multiple medical tests using just a few drops of blood, as little as a finger prick—was only being used for 15 of the more than 240 variety of tests Theranos conducts.
Apple’s ResearchKit program is being used for more medical trials.
Apple’s ResearchKit platform, which lets researchers conduct medical studies via iPhone app, is now being used to take on autism, epilepsy, and melanoma. The new studies will be run by researchers at Duke University, Johns Hopkins, and Oregon Health and Science University.
Coming off the first Democratic debate, here’s clarification on Senator Bernie Sanders’s ideology, and what it could mean to gig workers.
The meaning of words and phrases change. Dictionaries are updated to add new ones and also to reflect the current usage of old ones—but even with a dictionary, it’s easy to get lost.
Communicate with ease, tame your schedule, and get things done with these great tools.
You’re running a million miles an hour, trying to hold down a tight schedule full of tight deadlines on a tight ship. From messages to meetings to managing meddlesome minutiae, these 50 apps can help you work wonders with your otherwise limited time.
While wages stagnate, stock prices rise and the rich get richer.
If you’re lucky enough to be a member of the global 1%, last year was another good year to be alive (every year is pretty great, though). Your wealth bracket increased its share of global riches so that it holds just over half of global wealth, according to a new report from Credit Suisse.
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