For the first time since 1972, NASA landed a craft on the surface of the moon in February 2024. But the agency didn’t do it alone—instead, it partnered with commercial companies. Thanks to new technologies and public-private partnerships, the scientific projects brought to the moon on this craft and on future missions like it will open up new realms of scientific possibility.
As parts of several projects launching this year, teams of scientists, including myself, will con
In July 2015, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed an audience of more than 15,000 in Delhi. Clad in a crisp all-white kurta, Modi declared, “I dream of a digital India where 1.2 billion connected Indians drive innovation.” That speech signaled the commencement of the government’s Digital India campaign, an ambitious effort aimed at establishing India as a future digital superpower.
The ensuing near decade has seen the Indian government establish an ext
I’ve been stealing people’s identities for over 20 years. No, I’m not a criminal—I’m a hacker hired by companies to stress-test the digital identities of their workforce and verify that cybercriminals aren’t able to sneak onto company networks disguised as an employee.
But after cracking virtually every login combination you can think of throughout my career, I no longer need to “hack” my way in—instead I can just
A bill to create one of the nation’s most restrictive bans on minors’ use of social media is heading to Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has expressed concerns about the legislation that would keep children under the age of 16 off popular platforms regardless of parental approval.
The state House of Representatives passed the bill on a 108 to 7 vote Thursday just hours after the state Senate approved it 23 to 14. The Senate made changes to the original Hou
When her cellphone service went down this week because of an AT&T network outage, Bernice Hudson didn’t panic. She just called the people she wanted to talk to the old-fashioned way—on her landline telephone, the kind she grew up with and refuses to get rid of even though she has a mobile phone.
“Don’t get me wrong, I like cellphones,” the 69-year-old Alexandria, Virginia, resident said Thursday, the day of the outage. “But I’m still
On Wednesday, Yuga Labs CEO Daniel Alegre was pushed out as CEO. Cofounder Greg Solano, commonly referred to by the moniker, Gargamel (or Garga), took back control of the company known for stewarding NFT collections including the Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoPunks.
The decision comes in the wake of mounting concerns from so-called Ape holders over the state of the business, the company’s acquisition of another NFT purveyor, Proof Collective, and a changing company culture.
After years of sitting on the sidelines, Reddit is finally moving ahead with its IPO—and some parties stand to see serious bank, while some names that you would expect to be among the beneficiaries are absent.
Reddit filed its S1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) late Thursday, giving the public the first look at its plan to go public. (The company filed privately in December 2021, but shelved the plans after the market for IPOs became choppy.) Among the infor
Warner Bros Discovery reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss on Friday, as the media conglomerate battled a weak advertising market and the fallout of the twin Hollywood strikes on content generation.
Shares of the company, forged by the union of WarnerMedia and Discovery, tumbled nearly 12%, even as it beat Disney and Paramount to an inaugural annual profit for the streaming business. Shares of Paramount fell more than 5%.
The results high
After reports earlier this week that Reddit is planning to allow 75,000 of its power users to buy its upcoming shares at its initial public offering (IPO) price, we now have more details about the platform’s plan to go public. That’s because yesterday the company published the prospectus for its public offering. Here’s what that prospectus does and doesn’t reveal.
What we know
- Classes of Reddit stock: The company will hav
If you’re planning to go into the hospitality industry, the pathway is increasingly going to involve some sort of familiarity with AI. That’s one of the key messages in “Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Robot Applications in Hospitality Businesses,” a new book by hospitality professor Rachel J.C. Fu. In the following Q&A, Fu discusses how the hospitality jobs of the future will rely more and more on technology to provide a pleasant guest experience.