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The Tempe Police Department released a video Wednesday showing the final seconds before Sunday’s fatal crash involving a self-driving Uber car in that Arizona city. The video ends before the collision itself, but it may be still be disturbing to some: The video includes footage from a camera facing the outside of the car, with …

In the flower industry, there are two big holidays that matter: Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. That’s why UrbanStems, a flower delivery startup, decided to launch on Valentine’s Day in 2014. “It’s a well-known fact that these two days generate a huge amount of business for flower brands,” says Megan Darmody, the brand’s director of …

Cambridge Analytica’s improper access to Facebook user data turned into a firestorm for the social media giant this past week. Four days later, CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally responded, publishing a Facebook post in which he made a familiar vow to do “what it takes to protect our community.” He also conceded that Facebook has “made mistakes” …

It’s hard to fathom why Facebook’s number two has gone along with a crisis strategy that puts herself (and Mark Zuckerberg) squarely behind the curtain.

A new study led by researchers at UCLA in conjunction with 23andMe claims to have found genes that increase the risk in extreme nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. The condition, also known as hyperemesis gravidarum, plagues 2% of pregnant women. The biotech giant studied two groups: 1,300 women with the most severe form of morning …

Bulletproof Junior is a new (and fake) retail line aimed at getting the attention of lawmakers and lobbyists for gun control.

Slack just updated its privacy policy and tools, and one of the changes may give some users pause. Under the new rules, Slack customers who pay for certain premium services will be able to download all the data from their workspace–both public and private–apparently without informing members of the community. Which is to say: Information from …

Trump’s $17-million palm-tree-studded mansion in Saint Martin is available on Airbnb for $11,418 a night. (And if you’re thinking of staying there on Christmas or New Year’s Eve, the price almost doubles–to $21,600 a night). The estate, known as the Chateau des Palmiers, can fit up to 16 guests into its luxurious 9 bedrooms and 8 …

Actor Adrian Grenier is leading a movement at Starbucks’ shareholder meeting to push the company to develop and implement a bold sustainable packaging goal in line with the coffee company’s rhetoric about helping the planet.

Contrary to what one president might think, the stock market’s performance last year likely did not have much of an impact on your life. It did, however, help line the pockets of many CEOs. The median pay for bosses at 133 of the biggest U.S. corporations was $11.6 million in 2017, according to the Wall Street …

The global events giant IMG brings its brand relationships and entertainment world razzle dazzle to the treasures of the legendary boy king of Egypt.

While Facebook is excoriated this week over its failure to stop Cambridge Analytica from misusing the private data of millions of people, the company’s vast expansion is still going full-speed ahead. One vision Facebook has been slowly executing on is its plan to build an entire Silicon Valley-based community close to its Menlo Park, California, headquarters. This, …

Receiving feedback is hard. Here are some tips on how you can be better at it.

The world’s largest brewer has set new sustainability goals to reach by 2025, and hopes to use a startup accelerator to do it.

We’re giving up too much (data) and getting too little in return.

By now we’ve all heard the cliche: If you’re getting something for free on the internet, and you can’t identify the product that’s being sold, then you are the product. Your attention, your purchasing potential, your data, and, increasingly, your vote. That’s what you’re trading.

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One tech employee shares how he successfully enlisted his colleagues to help him advance his career.

We’d all like more battery life from our phones, but the situation could have been much worse without John Hennessy and David Patterson. In the 1980s, as mainframes were yielding ground to microcomputers, the computer scientists invented a new way for software to talk to the CPU, allowing chips to run much faster and use …

Amazon tops the list of the 50 most in-demand places to work according to LinkedIn’s ranking of data generated by its 546-plus million members around the world. The top 10 are: Amazon Alphabet (Google) Facebook Salesforce Tesla Apple Comcast Walt Disney Company Oracle Netflix You can see the full list here. The companies were given …

From college days forward, Facebook’s CEO has plenty of experience dealing with unhappy people. Will it help him dig out of the Cambridge Analytica mess?

Police in Austin say a man suspected of setting off a series of package bombs in the Texas capital this month has killed himself inside his car with an explosive device. Authorities were apparently alerted to a “person of interest” within the past 36 hours and tracked the suspect’s vehicle to a hotel in Round …

Here are five of the most essential skills it takes to be an effective CEO.

For one brief shining moment, Yahoo was the king of all it surveyed. Then everything went to hell.

The power of tech giants (and giants in industries from air travel to beer) are starting to have damaging effects on the environment–and our democracy.

Amid all the drama at Facebook, the company is continuing to pump out new features. Today, its Messenger app is introducing additional tools for group chats, which permit up to 250 simultaneous text chatters, or 50 via voice or video. People in a chat can share “joinable links” to invite others into the conversation, and …

The successor to the current 5.8-inch iPhone X may be 10% cheaper to manufacture, according to a report from DigiTimes. It’s estimated that the current iPhone X, which sells for between $999 and $1,149, costs Apple $400 to make. The next 5.8-inch iPhone could see Apple net a cost savings of $40 per device due …