February 21, 2025

Doctors and patients are calling for more telehealth. Where is it?

Maggie Barnidge, 18, has been managing cystic fibrosis her whole life. But not long after she moved out of her home state to start college, she came down with pneumonia and went into liver failure. She desperately wanted to get in touch with her doctor back home, whom she’d been seeing since she was diagnosed…

April 2023

Apple wins appeal over UK mobile market competition probe

April 3, 2023

Good news for Apple in the UK where a competition appeals court on Friday quashed a decision by the antitrust regulator to open an investigation of the iPhone makers’ mobile browser and cloud gaming service. The Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) ruled the regulator failed to stick to established statutory timeframes for such investigations — basically, […]

Apple wins appeal over UK mobile market competition probe by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Inside the bitter campus privacy battle over smart building sensors

April 3, 2023
When computer science students and faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Institute for Software Research returned to campus in the summer of 2020, there was a lot to adjust to.  Beyond the inevitable strangeness of being around colleagues again after months of social distancing, the department was also moving into a brand-new building: the 90,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art…

Tencent backs Singapore’s Horizon Quantum Computing in $18M round

April 3, 2023

Quantum computers have the potential to carry out highly complicated calculations in minutes that would have taken classical computers thousands of years to work out. But much of the industry is still in its infancy, partly because of a lack of domain experts and software tools that match the progress of quantum hardware. Now companies […]

Tencent backs Singapore’s Horizon Quantum Computing in $18M round by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter’s new label makes it hard to differentiate between legacy and paid verified accounts

April 3, 2023

Twitter was supposed to ceremoniously remove legacy verification checkmarks on April 1. While it appears to have put those plans on hold for now, the Elon Musk-led social network has revised the label attached to the check mark to make it virtually impossible to differentiate between those who earned it and all who paid for it. […]

Twitter’s new label makes it hard to differentiate between legacy and paid verified accounts by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

AI startup Fourthline locks down $54M to bring better ID checks and compliance tools to the finance sector

April 3, 2023

As digital financial services become more advanced, so too do the efforts of malicious hackers and fraudsters to crack into those valuable systems — and so too do the efforts of regulators to build better structures to avoid that abuse. To help the finance sector meet those demands, an Amsterdam-based startup called Fourthline has built […]

AI startup Fourthline locks down $54M to bring better ID checks and compliance tools to the finance sector by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Difference Between Recession and Depression

April 3, 2023
If you lived through the 2008 recession, you know how painful recessions can be. Even if you didn’t personally lose your job or home, you likely knew more than one…