India's health ministry has unveiled stringent guidelines for on-demand video streaming services, necessitating warnings about smoking and the use of other tobacco products when such activities are po...
[photo1]Nadia AsparouhovaIt was the spring of 2016, and I was in the Oval Office, waiting to interview for a job. Only I wasn't in Washington, DC. I was at the headquarters of GitHub, a code hosting p...
Google is now rolling out Google Play Games for PC Beta -- a service that lets you play Android games on Windows -- to users in Europe and New Zealand. The company officially announced the annual Goog...
British startup Satellite Vu has raised GBP12.7 million ($15.8 million) to develop what it calls "the world's thermometer": a satellite constellation capable of monitoring thermal emissions around the...
As the artificial intelligence market continues to heat up, a number of crypto players -- big and small -- are diving in.The Solana Foundation, the nonprofit organization behind the layer-1 blockchain...
[photo1]Much has been written about the challenges marketers are up against in 2023.From economic volatility and growing technological complexity to changes in data privacy policies and exponential im...
Is it worth paying to get a discount? In 2023, it seems just about every retail or grocery store chain has some sort of a rewards-slash-loyalty program that offers you perks in exchange for regularly...
How many paying customers do you have, and how long are they locked in?Annual recurring revenue (ARR) has always been a key metric, but with valuations down across the board and new money too tight to...
We saw it before with HBO Max and others, but Disney has now joined the content-cutting party. More than two dozen series and movies will be removed from Disney-owned streaming channels Disney+ and Hu...
Meta has launched its paid verification program, Meta Verified, in the UK at GBP9.99 per month each for Instagram and Facebook. The subscription is aimed at creators and comes with perks like proactiv...
Ask Sophie: Can I apply for an EB-1A without first getting an O-1A?Ask Sophie: Will I be allowed into the US if my passport expires in 5 months?Here's another edition of "Ask Sophie," the advice colum...
The Artemis program to return humans to the Moon has an aura of inevitability now, with broad political support, robust international participation, and a successful first mission--Artemis I--under it...
Upgrading your home's windows is one of the best ways to make your heating and cooling system more efficient and save on utility bills. In the short-term, though, new windows can come with some sticke...
With all the apps and digital tools available to enhance your studying, plus how fast and easy it is to type notes, it seems like a no-brainer to bring your laptop with you to class. But it actually m...
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week's startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas. Startups Weekly readers know I love a pivot story, and now I have one of my ow...
Dmitry Rogozin was fired as director general of Russia's main space corporation, Roscosmos, nearly a year ago. He has spent much of the time since near the front lines of Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...
Will Knight[photo1]ChatGPT and its brethren are both surprisingly clever and disappointingly dumb. Sure, they can generate pretty poems, solve scientific puzzles, and debug spaghetti code. But we know...
TikTok announced today that it's opening up its revamped creator fund, called the "Creativity Program Beta," to all eligible creators in the United States. The company initially began testing the new ...
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week's startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.Tech's guiding pr...
[photo1]Paresh DaveJordi Ribas hasn't taken a day off since last September. That month, the Microsoft search and AI chief got the keys to GPT-4, a then secret version of OpenAI's text-generation techn...