Moving Beyond Mary Shelley
For the Los Angeles Review of Books blog, Rachel Feder considers why Mary Shelley is often credited as the “ingénue inventor of speculative fiction,” while authors...
Slack to extend collaboration to folks who don’t want to give up email
As Slack gathered with its growing customer base this week at the Frontiers Conference in San Francisco, it announced several enhancements to the product, including extending...
Slack will let you message coworkers who don’t use Slack
Slack’s latest feature is one you might not expect: email. A new feature, announced during the company’s Frontiers conference, allows Slack users to message coworkers via...
Microsoft beats expectations with $30.6B in revenue as Azure’s growth continues
Microsoft reported its quarterly earnings for Q3 2019 today. Overall, Wall Street expected earnings of about $1 per share and revenue of $29.84 billion. The company...
Facebook reserves $3B for FTC fine, but keeps growing with 2.38B users in Q1
A massive penalty hangs over Facebook’s head, but it otherwise had a very strong Q1 earnings report. Facebook reached 2.38 billion monthly users, up 2.5 percent...
If You Care About Privacy, Throw Your Amazon Alexa Devices Into the Sea
Remember a couple of weeks ago when we learned that humans were monitoring Amazon Alexa commands, essentially spying on users in the name of product improvement?...
A Common Preservative in Cheese and Bread Could Negatively Affect Our Metabolism, Study Finds
In recent years, scientists have started cautiously warning about the subtle harms that certain food additives might be causing in people. A new study out Wednesday...
Amazon and Facebook Listed Among the Dozen Most Dangerous Workplaces
The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (COSH) today released its annual “dirty dozen” list of employers operating some of the most dangerous workplaces in...
NASA and FEMA are contingency planning for a potential asteroid armageddon
When it comes to planning for a potential asteroid strike on planet Earth, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Federal Emergency Management Agency don’t...
41% of voice assistant users have concerns about trust and privacy, report finds
Forty-one percent of voice assistant users are concerned about trust, privacy and passive listening, according to a new report from Microsoft focused on consumer adoption of...
