The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned an international fraud network used by North Korea to infiltrate American companies. The scheme involves hackers posing as legitimate job seekers using fake identities and documents. Once employed, these individuals earn a wage while also…
Confession time: my household owns two cars, one with leather and one with “leather.” The former feels amazing, while the latter is not fooling anyone. Based on the samples currently on my desk, leather alternatives do not have to feel…
Google introduced its new video editor, Vids, for the Google Workspace productivity suite last year. This week, the company announced several new features, including AI avatars, automatic transcript trimming, and image-to-video tools. It is also releasing a free version of…
McDonald’s has made starting a burger restaurant a straightforward process. Franchisees buy into the system and receive equipment, marketing support, and a detailed operating manual. Terraton aims to apply that same franchising model to biochar, a technology that converts agricultural…
Seven years after unveiling Mirror at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2018, Brynn Putnam is returning to the stage where it all began. The serial entrepreneur, who turned a fitness concept into a $500 million acquisition by Lululemon, will debut her latest…
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket successfully completed its tenth test flight on Tuesday evening. The mission achieved several long-sought milestones and ended a previous string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle lifted off from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility, at 7:30 p.m. ET…
Assort Health, a startup that uses AI to automate patient communication for specialty healthcare practices, has raised approximately $50 million in a Series B funding round. This investment values the company at $750 million, according to three sources familiar with…
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket successfully lifted off on its tenth test flight Tuesday evening. The mission achieved two long-sought milestones and ended a recent string of failures. The 403-foot vehicle launched from Starbase, SpaceX’s launch facility and recently incorporated city,…
Alphabet’s life sciences division, Verily, laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program on Monday. CEO Stephen Gillett announced this difficult decision to wind down the program in a staff memo, as reported by Business Insider. Gillett wrote that…
Protesters stormed Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters on Monday. They entered president Brad Smith’s office in Building 34, which forced a temporary lockdown of the facility. The group, calling themselves “No Azure for Apartheid,” live-streamed their sit-in on Twitch. They hoisted banners,…
