Upgrade Your Workflow With Two Essential Microsoft Tools for Just $55
Outfit your PC with Microsoft Office Pro 2021 and Windows 11 Pro — lifetime licenses that boost both your productivity and security.
Meta is adding AI-powered summaries to WhatsApp
Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat. This summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat, the company notes. The feature builds on the AI technology that Meta released in April, […]
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The Download: future grids, and bad boy bots
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Before we embark on our usual programming we’re thrilled to share that The Download won Best Technology Newsletter at this year’s Publisher Newsletter Awards! Thank you to all of you for reading, subscribing,…
How Do You Scale Without Burning Out? This Founder Asked for Help and Got a Wake-Up Call.
On this episode of Entrepreneur Therapy, Dr. Drew Pinsky and Kim Perell meet with a founder whose company is growing fast, but so is the pressure at home.
SpaceX’s Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight
It’s the latest in a string of setbacks for the mega-rocket, which SpaceX hopes to use to build Starlink and one day go to Mars.
Bluesky briefly suspended JD Vance’s account after he joined
Bluesky’s automated impersonation detection system took down JD Vance’s new account, but it was restored soon after.
Is this the electric grid of the future?
One morning in the middle of March, a slow-moving spring blizzard stalled above eastern Nebraska, pounding the state capital of Lincoln with 60-mile-per-hour winds, driving sleet, and up to eight inches of snow. Lincoln Electric System, the local electric utility, has approximately 150,000 customers. By lunchtime, nearly 10% of them were without power. Ice was…
Inside the US power struggle over coal
Coal power is on life support in the US. It used to carry the grid with cheap electricity, but now plants are closing left and right. There are a lot of potential reasons to let coal continue its journey to the grave. Carbon emissions from coal plants are a major contributor to climate change. And…
Stripe’s former growth lead helps African diaspora invest in startups, real estate
When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference. Eighteen months later, Stripe acquired the company, and that equity converted into Stripe shares, enough to let Kinvi leave his job, bootstrap a side project, […]
No, Andreessen Horowitz didn’t post that crypto scam tweet
If it sounds too good to be true — like a VC giving away valuable assets — it isn’t true.
The U.S. Added Over 1,000 New Millionaires a Day in 2024. Here’s How That Compares to the Rest of the World.
UBS revealed its latest report on global wealth on Wednesday, which looks back on wealth trends.