Drone-delivery businesses cropped up all over the globe in recent years, but most focused on last-mile logistics for food and retail. The concept of air dropping a burrito to a hungry college co-ed is a fun one. But one drone-delivery business that…
The New York Times
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Cade Metz
– May 17, 2019, 6:03 AM
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Mike Schroepfer, Facebook's chief technology officer, was tearing up. For half an hour, we had been sitting in a conference room at Facebook's headquarters, surrounded by whiteboards covered in blue and red marker…
CNBC
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Salvador Rodriguez
– May 16, 2019, 11:58 AM
Facebook is still reeling from the fallout of its Cambridge Analytica scandal more than a year ago, as multiple former recruiters say candidates are turning down job offers from what was once considered the best place to work in the United States…
A team has proposed using nanobots to create the ‘internet of thoughts', where instant knowledge could be downloaded just by thinking it. An international team of scientists led by members of UC Berkeley and the US Institute for Molecular…
Right-wing Republican lawmakers in Alabama just enacted the most extreme abortion ban in over 40 years. The new law bans abortion at every stage of pregnancy, doesn't include exceptions for rape and incest, and could result in doctors who perform…
