If there is any place you might half-expect an alien encounter, camping in the South Dakota Badlands might be on the list. Yet, my skeptical partners and I were floored when we looked up from the campfire over Memorial Day weekend and saw a thin line of interconnected lights too fast to count, trailing tightly […]
Only 4% of bank business and IT executives believe that the impact of technology on the pace of banking change has stayed the same over the past three years, while 96% said it has either significantly accelerated or accelerated, according to a new report from Accenture. This technological disruption has a large effect on how banks […]
Clue, Eve, Flo, Dot, Ovia, Cycles. If you are a man, there is a good chance you have never heard of these before. If you are a woman, there is a better chance you’ve read about them — if you use a menstrual app, you might have tracked the last three years’ worth of blood […]
When attorney general William Barr delivers the Mueller report to members of Congress, it will arrive on compact discs, reports Wired. That might be raising eyebrows, but Wired makes the case why digging out the CD-ROM drive works for a report of this size. IN OTHER NEWS: As the devastating Notre Dame fire burned on […]
“This blurry image is just the first go.” Ken Young, a scientist with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, watched the historic announcement of the first captured black hole image from his home right in Des Moines, reports the Des Moines Register. The image is essentially a scientific miracle that contributes evidence in favor of Einstein’s […]
Pinterest’s imminent IPO raises new questions about how big of a role the platform will play in the future of social commerce, reports Digiday. Pinterest positions itself as the ultimate discovery tool, but in order to get people to go from pinning to purchasing, Pinterest will need better commerce tools — and to convince more […]
Just as Bloomberg Businessweek was wrapping up a cover feature on the L.A. startup Imbellus, the college world began shaking: the FBI announced arrests of 50 people accused of fraud while attempting to smooth their children’s path into elite U.S. universities. Imbellus founder Rebecca Kantar believes part of the problem in the college inequity process […]
The second annual report on the Women in Finance Charter just landed from the U.K. Treasury, and the good news is there has been an improvement in the past year, reports Bloomberg and the Washington Post. The bad news: out of 123 signatories to the charter, 10 percent reported they weren’t likely to meet their targets […]
After tuning in to 60 Minutes on Sunday, I briefly forgot about the one story I had sat down to watch. The story, meant to explore how to retain girls interested in technology as they grow, actually focused on Code.org’s teacher training and education programs for students in the U.S. There’s nothing wrong with that […]
In Illinois, there’s widespread agreement that drivers need access to more charging stations if the state is going to electrify its transportation system. The question of who owns them — and who profits from them — is an open debate, reports Energy News Network. Utilities, private developers, and business owners are all expected to play […]