Thu, Jun 20 2019

First, he served in the Coast Guard, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant commander. He married, had a family, and devoted himself utterly to his two little girls. After he got out of the military, he worked as a moderator for Facebook, where he…

francine hardaway Don't you dare skip this. It's amazing journalistic effort in addition to what it tells you about FB

Five anchorwomen at NY1, one of the country's most prominent local news channels, sued the network on Wednesday over age and gender discrimination, alleging a systematic effort by managers to force them off the air in favor of younger, less…

francine hardaway What's interesting is the piece further down about the man. It's not just gender.

'It's not true that no one needs you anymore.” These words came from an elderly woman sitting behind me on a late-night flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. The plane was dark and quiet. A man I assumed to be her husband murmured…

francine hardaway Another amazing think piece. Read this one, too.

The robot showed up at Kenneth Williams' doorstep when he needed it most. Williams had just been laid off from his job when he plugged in Jibo, a social home robot, on November 1st, 2017. “For that year [that I didn't have a job], it was a…

francine hardaway Yeah, I had one. It's a bummer.

Diversity is taking a back seat to Democrats' desire to dump Trump. The 2020 presidential candidate field is well stocked with women, people of color and millennials, but a majority of voters who said they expected to cast ballots in a Democratic…

francine hardaway Voters get what they really want.

BOSTON — Artificial intelligence is often hailed as a great catalyst of medical innovation, a way to find cures to diseases that have confounded doctors and make health care more efficient, personalized, and accessible. But what if it turns…

francine hardaway It's a good question. Among other things, data doesn't really always fit an individual.

Uber is moving more deeply into the health sector. And that means striking deals so that employers and health plans will cover the cost of a trip to a doctor's office. The ride-hailing company announced on Wednesday that it is working with Grand…

francine hardaway Really? Why not give poor people a ride to the doctor?

(CNN) Is anybody home? Astronomers have pinpointed two planets orbiting a nearby star that meet pretty much every requirement for supporting life. They're almost exactly the same mass as the Earth, they are billions of years old (which means life…

francine hardaway Let's move. Somewhere without politics.

Patients who come to the Havelhöhe cancer clinic in the leafy outskirts of Germany's capital are often very sick. Struggling with advanced-stage cancers, many need strong doses of expensive, cutting-edge chemotherapy that can run into the…

francine hardaway It would work if we stripped out the politics and reinserted the humanity.

On a brilliantly blue spring day, David Sackler, a third-generation member of the now infamous Sackler family, sits in a large conference room high above Manhattan. He's a big, bearded guy in his late 30s, and he's dressed casually, in slacks and a…

francine hardaway I can imagine he’s hurt. His relatives did it, not him.