DoorDash, Uber Eats Changes Tipping Policy After Adding New Fees for Customers
The new minimum wage laws in New York City are forcing the delivery platforms to make changes.
What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. As I’ve admitted in this newsletter before, I love few things more than getting on an airplane. I know, it’s a bold statement from a climate reporter because of all the associated…
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SmileDirectClub Customers Speak Out After Company Ends Operations Without Warning
The telehealth orthodontics company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September.
This Social Worker Started a Side Hustle to Pay Back Student Loans. It Earned $300,000 in One Year — So She Quit Her 9-5 Altogether.
It wasn’t long before Dielle Charon’s business revenue “far surpassed” her annual salary.
Tesla’s $50,000 threat to Cybertruck resellers may be back after all
Tesla’s warning to Cybertruck resellers and scalpers appears to be back. An apparent early Cybertruck buyer claims they spotted Tesla’s $50,000 legal threat again in an order agreement for the electric pickup. On Friday, they posted a screenshot of the clause to the Cybertruck Owners Club forum. It restates the punitive rules Tesla seemed to […]
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Human brain cells hooked up to a chip can do speech recognition
Brain organoids, clumps of human brain cells grown in a dish, can be hooked up to an electronic chip and carry out simple computational tasks, a new study shows. Feng Guo and his team at Indiana University Bloomington generated a brain organoid from stem cells, attached it to a computer chip, and connected their setup,…
Tumblr’s ‘fediverse’ integration is still being worked on, says owner and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg
Despite delays, the plan to connect Tumblr’s blogging site to the wider world of decentralized social media, also known as the “fediverse,” is still on, it seems. Over a year ago, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg — whose company acquired Tumblr from Verizon in 2019 — posted on Twitter that the site would “soon” add support […]
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Publishing a Book? Dominate Bestseller Lists Like My Client Did With This Proven Strategy
We ditched traditional book marketing strategies for an innovative community-focused approach — resulting in my client’s book becoming a bestseller on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Here’s how you can replicate it.
Coca-Cola Ranked as the Best Place to Work for Career Growth in a New Study of America’s Largest Companies
The index includes an analysis of 396 U.S. companies across five areas (hiring, pay, racial and gender parity, promotion practices, and culture) over the past five years.
How This Founder Unlocked the Secrets to a Perfect Pitch
K. Rocco Shields, founder of the AI-powered training platform Genius Academy, discusses her winning strategy for securing funding on “Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch.”
The truth behind BlackRock and Citigroup buying insurance firms
Insurance has never been more important to Wall Street portfolios than today, or so it seems by these investment flows. Markets say rallies are due here