What Vision Loss Has Taught Me About Balancing Extremes in Business
A legally blind CEO gives her particular wisdom on navigating complex decisions and avoiding the tendency to go to extremes in business.
IBM pays $17M fine to end DOJ suit over DEI programs
IBM entered into a $17 million settlement agreement on Friday with the U.S. DOJ over allegations that it engaged in “illegal DEI practices.”
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Alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest shared patients’ private data with advertisers
For years, online alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest were sharing the personal information and health data of their patients with advertisers without their consent. Monument, which acquired Tempest in 2022, confirmed the extensive years-long leak of patients’ information in a data breach notification filed with California’s attorney general last week, blaming their use of […]
Alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest shared patients’ private data with advertisers by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch
Apple Is Reportedly Beginning a Small Round of Layoffs
The move is being positioned as a “streamlining effort.”
Don’t Let Your Organization Become Stagnant — Learn How to Innovate with These 5 Tips
Reinvent or risk stagnation — why leaders need to keep their people innovating, and how.
AI Deepfake Video Stars Harry Potter Characters in a Controversial Fashion Brand’s Show…and Even Elon Musk Is Taken Aback
The creator is known for realistic yet strange content.
15 Ways to Do Your Financial Planning Better
When you get down to basics, financial planning is simply the process of setting financial goals and creating a plan for how you’ll meet those goals. That seems innocuous enough…
How to Avoid Becoming a Villain — 6 Leadership Traits You Must Avoid
Learn essential leadership traits you must avoid to be an effective and successful leader and avoid the six most damaging traits that can lead you down the path of becoming a villain.
Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy
Virgin Orbit, the low-Earth orbit small payload launch company that was spun out of Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, has filed for bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The bankruptcy filing follows weeks of bad news for the company, including a pause on all operations, a brief hunt for more money to continue […]
Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy by Darrell Etherington originally published on TechCrunch
Covariant’s robotic picking AI nabs another $75M
I took a deep dive with Covariant co-founder and CEO Peter Chen at ProMat the other week. The timing was either perfect or terrible depending on who you ask. I’m sure the startup’s comms people are thrilled that I’m writing a follow-up a week later on the occasion of a new funding round. Regardless, $75 […]
Covariant’s robotic picking AI nabs another $75M by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
El futurólogo Ray Kurzweil cree que para 2030 los seres humanos podríamos erradicar la enfermedad y alcanzar la inmortalidad
Durante años el científico ha hecho y acertado en muchas de sus predicciones. Sus ideas han resurgido tras haber aparecido en un video en el canal del youtuber ADAGIO.