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| Aug 26, 2024 | Did RFK Jr. Really 'Drop Out'? Polymarket Bettors Argue Over Contract Resolution | This week in prediction markets…
Did RFK Jr. really drop out?
How long will Telegram's Pavel Durov be in detention?
Mpox won't be a pandemic this year, bettors say
As last week came to a close, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he was putting his ... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | The Political Tightrope: Biden's Struggles and Trump's Momentum**
** | ** In the world of politics, the stakes are always high. The 2024 presidential race is no exception. President Joe Biden finds himself in a precarious position, while former President Donald Trump rides a wave of enthusiasm from his support... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | National Politics | Biden pushes party unity as he resists calls to step aside, says he’ll return to campaign next week | “Together, as a party and as a country, we can and will defeat him at the ballot box,” Biden said. “The stakes are high, and the choice is clear. Together, we will win.”
Earlier in the day, his campaign chair, Jen O’Malley Dillion, acknowle... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | Exclusive: Chalkbeat expands to public health, hires media veterans to run new parent organization | figcaption>span]:font-sans" data-chromatic="ignore">
Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization that covers education at the local level, plans to launch a new outlet called Healthbeat this summer for local coverage of pu... |
| Jun 16, 2024 | A search for a biological father, and the surprise of a lifetime | Matt Katz is a lifelong Mets fan. Playing ball with his son, Reuben, is what Father's Day memories are made of. But growing up, Matt's experience of Father's Day was about as complicated as a triple play. "Did my birth father like base... |
| Feb 29, 2024 | The Green New Deal Laid the Groundwork for the IRA | Sign up for Climate on the Ballot, our new weekly newsletter with ideas for reporting on climate and the 2024 elections.
Earlier this month, WNYC’s Brian Lehrer interviewed New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about the Green Ne... |
| Feb 25, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Michael J. Socolow: Tucker Carlson’s visit to Russia highlights the difference between propaganda and journalism | By Michael J. Socolow
Tucker Carlson, the conservative former cable TV news pundit, recently traveled to Moscow to interview Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for his Tucker Carlson Network, known as TCN.
The two-hour interview itself proved ... |
| Dec 28, 2022 | Tulsi Gabbard grilled Rep-elect George Santos, who has admitted to lying about parts of his resume, on Fox News: 'Do you have no shame?' | Rep.-elect George Santos, R-New York, speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022, in Las Vegas. John Locher/AP Photo
Former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard grilled Republican Rep-elect Geor... |
| Dec 19, 2022 | Incoming GOP congressman George Santos reportedly lied about his employment history, where he went to college, losing four employees in the Pulse nightclub shooting, and possibly his residence | Representative-elect George Santos at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting on November 19, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Scott Olson/Getty Images
An incoming GOP congressman from Long Island has several gaps in his resume,... |
| May 23, 2022 | The shocking subway shooting of a Goldman Sachs employee further clouds NYC’s return-to-office push | Sign up for the Fortune Features email list so you don’t miss our biggest features, exclusive interviews, and investigations.
A shocking fatal shooting on the New York City subway this past weekend could have much bigger implications beyond... |
| Sep 7, 2021 | How 9/11 gave rise to a massive ‘Camo Economy’ | Subscribe to Fortune Daily to get essential business stories straight to your inbox each morning.
Like many of us, Wendy Masiello remembers exactly where she was and what she was doing on 9/11. In her case, she was serving as the director o... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Photos show how New York City’s subway system has changed over the years | Inside of a New York City subway car in 1943 and a new car coming out in 2022. Bettmann/Contributor; Marc A. Hermann/MTA
New York City’s subway system has plans to add a new fleet in 2022 with wider doors and high-tech features.
Since the e... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | New York City issues vaccine mandate for indoor activities, confuses entire country | Starting in September, New York City will require people to prove they’ve received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine to eat indoors, visit gyms, and go to theaters. The new program is called “Key to NYC Pass,” but it does not, as the ... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | More Cities Are Moving to Drop Automated Gunshot-Detection Tech | Community organizers in San Diego and Chicago are calling on their city leaders to end contracts with the surveillance company ShotSpotter, which installs hidden microphone arrays and uses a combination of algorithms and human reviewers to ... |
| Jan 16, 2021 | COVID-19 vaccination appointments are now booked In New York for the next 3.5 months, but New York City might run out as soon as next week | The Javits Centre in New York City began COVID-19 vaccinations for essential workers and people over 65 years old age on January 13, 2021. Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
The New York Department of Health ale... |
| Jan 6, 2021 | Q&A: Shearwater Performs David Bowie’s ‘Berlin Trilogy’ This Week On WNYC | This Friday, a range of performers will commemorate David Bowie’s birthday as part of ‘Just for One Day,’ a livestreamed concert organized by Bowie’s longtime collaborator, Mike Garson. The concert’s title alludes to Bowie’s 1977 hit, ‘Hero... |
| Sep 24, 2020 | The definitive list of the 50 most important Trump-world power players working to win the president four more years | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, second from left, and Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., left, are joined by Ivanka Trump second from right, and her husband Jared Kushner, during a campaign event to announce Pence as the vice presiden... |
| Sep 17, 2020 | As Palantir gears up to go public, activist groups are rallying BlackRock — a major investor — to ask the big data company to cut its ties with ICE | Activists protest outside the Palantir Technologies software company for allegedly helping ICE and the Trump administration in New York City, U.S., September 13, 2019 Reuters/Shannon Stapleton
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| Sep 12, 2020 | As schools reopen, officials reflect on first months of coronavirus device lending programs | Image: SeventyFour, Getty Images/iStockPhoto Must-read CXO coverage
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| Aug 26, 2020 | Palantir just officially laid out its plans to go public in a direct listing | Palantir publicly revealed its stock-listing documents for the first time on Tuesday afternoon.
The notoriously secret data startup is pursuing a direct listing of its equity, similar to that of Spotify and Slack.
Sources previously told Bu... |
| Jul 3, 2020 | Palantir has raised more than $500 million in fresh funding as the secretive and controversial startup works toward a possible IPO | Palantir said it sold more than $500 million in stock to private investors and hopes to sell about $400 million more.
The company was said to be preparing for a September IPO, and it's unclear how the new funding affects those plans.
As a d... |
| Jan 15, 2020 | Investing In Immigrant Surveillance: Palantir And The #NoTechForICE Campaign | Jacinta González, a senior campaign organizer at Mijente, speaking at a rally.Mijente |
| Dec 20, 2019 | I’m a Mother of Four. Palantir’s Tech Helped Put Me in an ICE Detention Center | Maria Domingo Garcia is a factory worker and mother of four who is currently incarcerated at an ICE detention facility in Jena, Louisiana.
This summer, I was one of the nearly 700 immigrants arrested in the massive ICE raid at a Koch Foods ... |
| Nov 19, 2019 | Students at 16 Universities Are Protesting Palantir’s Presence on Campuses | It’s no secret that many universities have cozy relationships with Palantir. The data mining company that contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is known to recruit on campuses across the country. And students are not too ... |
| Sep 13, 2019 | “You Have Blood on Your Hands”: Jewish Protesters Call For Palantir to Drop Its ICE Contract | Jewish protesters from several groups rallied outside Palantir’s offices in Palo Alto and New York on Friday to get the tech company to stop collaborating with ICE, as a key contract date approaches.
The protesters were affiliated with a ha... |
| Aug 20, 2019 | ICE Just Renewed Its Contract With Palantir | Immigration and Customs Enforcement just renewed its contract with Palantir, a data aggregation company, despite protests from organizers demanding that the agency ends its relationship with the company, according to a document published to... |
| Jul 26, 2019 | A 26-year-old billionaire is building virtual border walls — and the federal government is buying | On a Friday afternoon in late July, a crowd of techies, military types and a few civilians deployed to the new Irvine headquarters of Anduril Industries, a defense tech start-up, to sip hibiscus margaritas and admire the sensor towers and c... |
| Jun 25, 2019 | Why Science Says Boredom Is Good for the Brain | A few years ago, journalist and podcaster Manoush Zomorodi hit a creative slump. After some reflection, she figured out why: Strange as it sounds, she wasn’t getting bored enough.
All the time she normally spent idling throughout the day wa... |
| Jun 6, 2019 | Why We Shouldn't Believe ICE's Promise to Deport Migrants "With Compassion and Humanity" | Want the best from VICE News in your inbox? Sign up here.
Mark Morgan, the new acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said on Tuesday that “interior enforcement” will be the agency’s “next challenge.” In other words, the Tr... |
| Apr 11, 2019 | Meet Donald Trump's siblings, the oldest of whom just retired as a federal judge | Fred and Mary Anne Trump had five children.
President Donald Trump is the second youngest.
His older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, just retired as a federal judge.
Fred Trump Jr., the president's older brother, died in 1981 at the age of 43... |
| Mar 26, 2019 | 5 things you need to know in SA business today, and why cashless stores are facing a backlash | 1. Some good news, and some bad news. Good news: The rand has bolted back from R14.50/$ and was last seen cruising at R14.31. Bad news: It got a boost from a weak dollar amid expectations of a US recession, which in turn caused markets to p... |
| Mar 18, 2019 | New Jersey becomes second state to ban cashless shops and restaurants | frankieleon / Flickr reader comments 348 with 153 posters participating
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| Jul 1, 2018 | Immigrant parents are agreeing to be deported just to see their kids again | After spending two weeks at a detention center in Port Isabel, Texas, separated from his 4-year-old daughter, a man in his thirties who fled Honduras earlier this month decided to agree to be deported. He couldn’t bear to be away from his d... |
| Jun 5, 2018 | 5 Women to Watch in Tuesday's Primary Elections | Today, eight states are holding their primary elections: Voters in Alabama, California, Iowa, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota are heading to the polls to decide who they want to see on the ballot in November. ... |
| Mar 8, 2018 | 23 things most millennials have never heard of
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Millennials are people born between 1981 and 1997 who are between 21 and 37 years old in 2018.
Many millennials aren't familiar with some of the technological and cultural relics from earlier eras.
For instance... |
| Feb 23, 2018 | Public media will resurrect Gothamist, LAist and DCist | Local news sites Gothamist, LAist and DCist are coming back from the dead. Their assets (including story archives) have been acquired by three public radio companies — WNYC in New York, KPCC in Southern California and WAMU in Washington, D.... |
| Jan 21, 2018 | Startups, high-speed rail and California’s infrastructure future | California is home to two very different innovation worlds. For the readers of TechCrunch, there is the familiar excitement of the startup world, with startups working on longevity and age extension, rockets to Mars, and cars that drive the... |
| Jan 16, 2018 | American history podcasts are having a moment | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
With podcasts enjoying a surge in revenue and VC investment and collectively surpassing 65 million monthly listeners for the first time... |
| Jan 16, 2018 | American history podcasts are having a moment | With podcasts enjoying a surge in revenue and VC investment and collectively surpassing 65 million monthly listeners for the first time, VentureBeat’s Paul Sawers makes a good case for why 2017 was the year of the podcast. A closer look at ... |
| Jan 5, 2018 | The bizarre truth behind how the distinctive sounds of Daenerys' dragons in 'Game of Thrones' are made | HBO
Drogon and Daenerys Targaryen in HBO's "Game of Thrones".
Paula Fairfield, sound designer for HBO's "Game Of Thrones," appeared on Radio Lab's Big Little Questions podcast.
She revealed that in order to make the soun... |
| Oct 4, 2017 | The creator of 'The Wire' says the US needs a basic income due to the 'death of work' from automation | Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images
David Simon has come out in favor of universal basic income, due to the threat of automated labor.
David Simon, creator of the popular HBO series "The Wire," and most recently "The Deuce," ha... |
| Oct 4, 2017 | Former Revenge Porn Site Operator Readies For Senate Run By Issuing Bogus Takedown Requests To YouTube | Everyone’s favorite privacy activist — former revenge porn site runner Craig Brittain — is at it again. As the operator of one of the most infamous revenge porn sites, “Is Anybody Down?” Brittain’s view on privacy seemed to be that if you e... |
| Sep 25, 2017 | Could podcasting be a model for online community? | “The cool thing about radio is it’s like an island of lost toys,” Tobin Low, the co-host of WNYC’s podcast Nancy, told the audience gathered at the Brooklyn Historical Society.
Indeed, as podcasting has taken off in the past few years, it’s... |
| Aug 7, 2017 | The Woman Who's Making History as the Black, Trans Editor in Chief of a Publication | Ashlee Marie Preston walks into the Coffee Bean on Robertson Boulevard in West Hollywood and places her phone display side on the table. She'd recently recorded a video for "Now This," the social video news organization, and the v... |
| Jul 11, 2017 | ‘Lost in the Cracks’: Alabama District Brings Personalized Learning to Incarcerated Youth | The American prison system has been criticized for being a place of punishment instead of rehabilitation. In states such as Alabama, where youth as young as 14 can be tried as adults, going into the system can mean a lifetime of condemnatio... |
| Feb 20, 2017 | Trump in 30 Seconds Archive Nov. 2016 – Jan. 31, 2017 | advertisement
Tuesday, Jan. 31 A meeting on price
Pharma executives met with President Trump this morning to talk drug pricing, and he vowed to make it easier for smaller companies to compete. Trump also said he would streamline the drug ap... |
| Feb 15, 2017 | Rare Carat’s Watson-powered chatbot will help you put a diamond ring on it | Update: This post was updated to reflect that conflict diamonds are used to back insurgencies or rebel forces in Africa.
The rituals of courtship have changed since 1477 when the Archduke Maximilian of Austria bought the first diamond engag... |
| Feb 14, 2017 | Upset About Border Patrol Cruelty? It Didn't Start Under Trump | In the last few weeks, there’s obviously been a lot of attention on the cruel actions of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), a part of the Department of Homeland Security. Slate has an article detailing some of the awful stories coming out aft... |
| Dec 15, 2016 | 9 homegrown Brooklyn podcasts that rule | When Downtown Brooklyn’s Gimlet Media unloaded an entire fall season of podcasts recently, it got us thinking about how many of the weekly lil radio hours are made here in our own backyard. After a bit of digging, it turns out: a lot of the... |
| Sep 29, 2016 | The FCC is making emergency alerts longer… and adding links | You may start to get longer, more detailed messages in the future from the government or law enforcement when danger is afoot.
The Federal Communications Commission voted today to change rules related to its Wireless Emergency Alerts system... |
| Jul 26, 2016 | DOD Revises Law of War Manual | Last Friday, the Department of Defense released an update to the 2015 Law of War Manual. According to Charlie Savage of the New York Times, the changes mainly center on the section related to the treatment of journalists in conflict. As Sav... |
| Jul 25, 2016 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | In an unusual campaign season punctuated by scandals and high unfavorability numbers for both leading candidates, the latest turn might just be the most shocking. Top Democratic Party officials and cybersecurity experts accused Russia of ha... |
| Jun 9, 2016 | Should Your Online Course Sound Like 'Serial'? | Krista Tippett knows how to connect with audiences. She hosts a radio show that airs on more than 400 stations across the country. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama in 2014. And her show “ On Being” consistent... |
| May 10, 2016 | Are our smartphones afflicting us all with symptoms of ADHD? | |
| May 1, 2016 | Zika in 30 Seconds: Archives (May – July) | Saturday-Sunday, July 30-31 The big news right now Zika cases are surging in Puerto Rico, and health officials fear hundreds of babies could be born with severe brain defects (STAT) A study suggests that all strains of the Zika virus are of... |
| Apr 7, 2016 | I Spent 18 Hours in One of New York City’s Busiest Emergency Rooms | 10:00 AM
When I walked into the emergency room at Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Jerry Springer was playing on a flat-screen bolted to the wall.
"Do you think your boyfriend or girlfriend is ... |
| Mar 21, 2016 | Happy 10th Birthday, Twitter! Interesting Twitter Facts And Milestones | Anu Passary, Tech Times 21 March 2016, 08:03 am
Twitter is now a decade old! The microblogging site that dawned a new era for social media networks turns 10 on Monday, giving us another reason to share 10 interesting facts about the platfor... |
| Dec 1, 2015 | Holland Taylor Dishes on the Woman She Is Dating, ‘It’s the Most Wonderful, Extraordinary Thing’ | Holland Taylor of Two and a Half Men says she has found the love of her life at the age of 72.
“It’s the most wonderful, extraordinary thing that could have ever possibly happened in my life,” the actress said on WNYC’s Death, Sex & Mon... |
| Oct 11, 2015 | On Tinder, “Hookup Culture” And Talking About Sex | Jenka Gurfinkel Contributor
Jenka Gurfinkel is a UX and Product Strategist focusing on health tech. She writes about the intersection of culture, technology, and human behavior.
A great way to get onto TechCrunch is to make a joke about a b... |
| Aug 25, 2015 | Podmasters: 'Death, Sex & Money' Host Anna Sale Talks Hurricane Katrina Anniversary Series 'In New Orleans' | Laura Rosenfeld, Tech Times 25 August 2015, 12:08 pm
Podmasters is a weekly column where staff writers Andrea Alfano and Laura Rosenfeld highlight the podcasts you need in your life. Every week, they tackle a new genre, recommending everyth... |
| Aug 5, 2015 | Insurance Is The Next Frontier For Fintech | Brendan Dickinson Contributor
Brendan Dickinson is a principal at Canaan Partners.
We have entered a golden age for fintech. LendingClub and OnDeck recently exited through massive IPOs, and global investments in the fintech space hit $3 bil... |
| Jul 18, 2015 | The Future Of Podcasting | Parviz Parvizi Contributor
Parviz Parvizi is a co-founder of Clammr, a social audio discovery app and platform that features 24-second audio highlights and previews.
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| Jun 23, 2015 | Startup staffers, take note: 4 tips for healthy living in the tech world | In my two years as the community manager of Philly coworking space Venturef0rth, I spent a lot of time observing startup culture.
Here’s what it looked like: a ton of coffee, long working hours, pizza all the time, lots of craft beer, free ... |
| Jun 12, 2015 | Why Are Pagers Still a Thing? | I remember, as a tiny 90s child, briefly wanting a pager. I was at the local high school seeing a basketball game with my dad, and the high school girls loitering outside the gym seemed impossibly tall and unattainably cool. One of them had... |
| Feb 11, 2015 | More Power For Bad Cops: NYPD Head Supports Raising 'Resisting Arrest' To A Felony | Here’s a horrifying statement: |
| Jan 21, 2015 | Brooklyn won’t be the next Silicon Valley, and that’s a good thing | We really like hearing Manoush Zomorodi, the host of the WNYC podcast New Tech City, talk about brogrammers. Honestly, she just kind of seems to like the word.
That said, she also addresses it because she knows her audience. The specter of ... |
| Jan 12, 2015 | The 'Charlie Hebdo' Attacks Showed When We Need Cops | Photo via Flickr user Gwenael Piaser
The backlash against criticism of the police, which began with the tragic assassination of two cops in New York City on December 20, will likely continue after the deaths of Paris police officers last we... |
| Dec 4, 2014 | NYPD Baffled By Tech Advances Like Laptops And WiFi | It’s over. The tech kids have won. Shut down the NYPD’s counterterrorism unit and brace yourselves for a crimewave of Biblical proportions. |
| Nov 20, 2014 | After Rising Dramatically, Marijuana Arrests Are Falling In New York City And Across The Country | In 1992, when Americans elected a president who said he had smoked pot without inhaling, the number of marijuana arrests in the United States began a steep climb. It peaked in 2007, during the administration of a president who refused to sa... |
| Sep 12, 2014 | Did New Yorkers Just Start a Left-Wing Democratic Party Insurgency? | Zephyr Teachout and Tim Wu celebrate their defeat. Photo by the author
On Tuesday night, I showed up at Hudson Terrace, a moderately swanky nightclub in Hell's Kitchen on the west side of Manhattan, to find that fashion week was still in fu... |
| Sep 2, 2014 | Armory to Match 10 BTC in Donations to Hal Finney Bitcoin Fund | hal finney
Armory Technologies has extended its ongoing donation drive in honor of late bitcoin developer Hal Finney.
Finney, a pioneer in the field of cryptography and the first person to receive a bitcoin transaction, passed away last Tue... |
| Aug 2, 2014 | Why Are We Only Reporting the Planes That Crash in Edtech? | As Don Henley once sang in "Dirty Laundry 1982", the news loves to report when planes crash.
The fact is, of course, that the news rarely reports about those planes that land safely. News is only news, it seems, when the unusual h... |
| Jul 23, 2014 | We Talked to Tim Wu About Net Neutrality and Taking on Corrupt Politicians | New York lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Tim Wu on the stump. Photo by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid via Flickr It's not very often that you get to vote for the smartest person in the room. But Tim Wu, the Columbia Law School professor who ... |
| Jul 7, 2014 | UberX now cheaper than a NYC taxi after huge price cut | The e-hailing service always seems to be slashing prices, but is that a good long term decision?
(Updated with comment from Uber)
After months and months of hearing everyone, and their mother, rave about it I finally took my first ever Uber... |
| Jun 20, 2014 | 6 takeaways from ‘Disrupting Transportation’ | Taxi drivers are doomed.
That was one of the big takeaways from a Northside Innovation Festival session on “Disrupting Transportation” led by Transportation Nation’s Alex Goldmark (who is also a contributor to WNYC’s tech podcast, New Tech ... |
| Jun 17, 2014 | Meet Zephyr Teachout, the Anti-Corruption Crusader Running for Governor of New York | Zephyr Teachout at a progressive organizing conference. Photo via Facebook
Even by the embarrassingly low standards of American democracy, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is shady. Since disbanding his own corruption probe earlier this year,... |
| Apr 23, 2014 | Getting A Tech Job: Advice From Brooklyn’s Startup All-Stars | (via Makerbot Industries, CC-BY-2.0)
Advice for young techies and entrepreneurs is often cliche and abundant: ‘start something’; ‘fail early and often’; ‘don’t rely too much on your degree’. But when you hear it from the top tech leaders in... |
| Jan 6, 2014 | Here’s a list of every Brooklyn coworking space we know of | Coworking, they say, is so much more than just a physical space. It’s all about community. We guess that means Brooklyn has a lot of community.
Fumbling through a number of resources out there that aim to keep track of these types of things... |
| Dec 30, 2013 | 6 themes in Brooklyn tech in 2013 | As Technically Brooklyn goes through its first transition to a New Year, we have been on the scene in the borough since August. We are already starting to see some themes emerge, reflecting where technology is at right now. We think these f... |
| Nov 6, 2013 | Cease and desist? The fate of ridesharing in Baltimore city | On Oct. 18, one day after ridesharing service Lyft launched in Baltimore city with a public party at the Museum of Industry, attorney Todd Chason sent a letter to the executive secretary of the Maryland Public Service Commission on behalf o... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | Once you find an exchange plan, can you find a health insurance provider? | Turned out that wasn’t so easy to figure out on his own. So he and Elisabeth Benjamin, a health exchange “navigator,” are in a Manhattan office doing some digging.
After a little hunting and pecking, Batteiger learns that a nearby hospital,... |
| Nov 4, 2013 | Wolfe fiber provider expands to BK; here’s why your internet still isn’t faster | There’s a new Internet Service Provider in New York City, including Brooklyn, providing fiber-based Internet, Wolfe. The Seattle-based company announced its presence in New York City on Oct. 16th.
Details include:
Wolfe‘s high-speed interne... |
| Sep 19, 2013 | This is when I knew New York was a tech center: Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson | In San Francisco, he was impressed by how each night there was a meaningful event for technologists. Then, back home in New York, he found the same thing was happening here.
That’s how Chad Dickerson, CEO of Williamsburg’s Etsy, knew the Ne... |
| Sep 6, 2013 | Uber attacks Lyft head on in new cities | Uber offering free rides in cities that Lyft launched in last week
It's no secret that Uber has been feeling the pressure and competition from ride-sharing apps recently, most notably Lyft. So the company has been taking numerous steps, inc... |
| Aug 19, 2013 | Genspace: hobbyist biotech space crowdfunds for DNA barcoding | The coworking and maker space takeover is well documented. But as collaborative communities grow up into other industries, one of the country’s first DIY biotechnology spaces is nearing its third anniversary of opening.
Since launching in l... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | Teens Now Using Internet to Hitch Rides with Strangers | Fine mom, don’t pick us up, we’ll just get into a stranger’s car (Photo: Getty images)
This one is dedicated to all the olds who insist millennials are risk-averse: spotty youths are now using Twitter to solicit rides from strangers and acq... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | Mayor Bloomberg Loves Cameras Watching Everyone… Except His Cops | One of the directives ordered by Judge Scheindlin in her decision declaring New York City’s stop and frisk program unconstitutional was to equip NYPD officers with body cameras. Mayor Bloomberg treated this suggestion derisively during his ... |
| Aug 5, 2013 | Despite community efforts, two Brooklyn hospitals closing, more may follow | Four miles away in the Cobble Hill neighborhood, the State University of New York has been trying to shut Long Island College Hospital since March. The SUNY Downstate network of three hospitals and five colleges of medicine and related fiel... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | Threatening Facebook Post Following Zimmerman Verdict Lands Man in Jail | If you happened to log on to Facebook or Twitter in the aftermath of the George Zimmerman not guilty decision, well, you probably saw your fair share of sharply-worded posts. The acquittal sparked massive social media protests – and to a le... |
| Jun 12, 2013 | Startup Rundown: Google Glass Gets Fancy, and MakerBot Open Up (Another) Shop | Cutting the Ribbon at MakerBot’s new Sunset Park facility
New Tech City gets new managing editor WNYC announced yesterday that Manoush Zomorodi will become managing editor of New Tech City, the weekly tech podcast and segment on Morning Edi... |
| May 2, 2013 | NY Police Chief Ray Kelly Says The Boston Bombing Takes Privacy 'Off The Table' | In light of the recent Boston bombing, NYPD Police Chief Ray Kelly is now restructuring some sort of nonexistent deal with New Yorkers, issuing a clawback on their civil liberties. According to Kelly, the Boston Marathon bombing means priva... |
| Apr 9, 2013 | Tumblr Kills Storyboard; Editorial Employees Will Be ‘Moving On’ | Tumblr’s Mr. Karp (Photo: wikipedia.org)
We’ve seen some late-afternoon news dumps, but this takes the cake: Tumblr CEO David Karp just announced that the company is shutting down Storyboard, the editorial experiment meant to highlight the ... |
| Apr 5, 2013 | The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide | Both Sides of the Table
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A few months ago, on Sunday, January 27, an entrepreneur named Jody Sherman had plans to see a movie with a friend.
But that afternoon, the friend received a call from Jody's wife, Kerri.
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| Apr 5, 2013 | The Story Of A Failed Startup And A Founder Driven To Suicide | Both Sides of the Table
A few months ago, on Sunday, January 27, an entrepreneur named Jody Sherman had plans to see a movie with a friend.
But that afternoon, the friend received a call from Jody's wife, Kerri.
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Jody had gone ... |
| Mar 26, 2013 | Booting Up: This Teen Just Made Millions Off Yahoo | $30 million buys a lot of shirts with whimsical patterns. (Photo: Wikipedia)
As if recently released prisoners didn’t have enough trouble readjusting to life on the outside, now they have to learn all sorts of new digital skills, too. [WNYC... |
| Mar 6, 2013 | You may actually want to use NYC’s 5 futuristic payphone prototypes | How do you remake payphones for the modern age? That was the challenge New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued a few months ago with the Reinvent Payphones initiative, which was meant to crowdsource ways to upgrade the city’s 11,000 pa... |
| Mar 6, 2013 | You may actually want to use NYC’s 5 futuristic payphone prototypes | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
How do you remake payphones for the modern age? That was the challenge New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg issued a few months ago wi... |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Booting Up: Hacking Press Coverage for Fun and Profit | Time for school! (Photo: flickr.com/slambert)
First Round Capital has built a brand-new platform for startups seeking press coverage: HackPR, designed to connect them with journalists. The firm is hoping to replicate the same kind of buzz t... |
| Oct 3, 2012 | The US Government Today Has More Data On The Average American Than The Stasi Did On East Germans | We’ve written plenty about how the US government has been quite aggressive in spying on Americans. It has been helped along by a court system that doesn’t seem particularly concerned about the 4th Amendment and by the growing ability of pri... |
