April 2023

Why your iPhone 17 might come with a recycled battery

April 20, 2023
My phone is basically an extension of my arm at this point. To be honest, I have some mixed feelings about that, and not just because I worry about what being online 24/7 is doing to my brain cells.  As you might know, lithium-ion batteries power most of our personal electronics today. Mining the metals…

Uber and Cartken are bringing sidewalk delivery robots to Virginia

April 20, 2023

Uber is expanding its partnership with sidewalk delivery robot startup Cartken to Fairfax, Virginia. Starting Thursday, UberEats customers around the Mosaic District can choose to have food from select merchants delivered via one of Cartken’s small, six-wheeled, autonomous bots. This is the second city where Uber and Cartken are partnering for commercial deliveries. The companies […]

Uber and Cartken are bringing sidewalk delivery robots to Virginia by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager

April 20, 2023

Proton, the Geneva, Switzerland-based company behind the end-to-end encrypted email service Proton Mail, as well as Proton VPN, Proton Drive and Proton Calendar, is announcing a brand new product today. And it’s a password manager called Proton Pass. Like other Proton products, the company is insisting on the privacy and security features of this new […]

Proton announces Proton Pass, a password manager by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Learning to code isn’t enough

April 20, 2023
A decade ago, tech powerhouses the likes of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon helped boost the nonprofit Code.org, a learn-to-code program with a vision: “That every student in every school has the opportunity to learn computer science as part of their core K–12 education.” It was followed by a wave of nonprofits and for-profits alike dedicated…

Debunking the 5 Myths of Hybrid Work

April 20, 2023
There’s a slew of misinformation about remote and hybrid work floating around. If you don’t separate fact from fiction, your company’s future is bleak.