SAN FRANCISCO — Marco Zappacosta runs an Internet start-up called Thumbtack that matches plumbers, yoga instructors and other workers with jobs, putting him in the middle of what is called the “gig economy.” Now, that position has made him in demand with a group of...
If you ever applied for device financing or service from T-Mobile anytime in the last two years, your personal information might have been stolen by hackers. T-Mobile says as many as 15 million people may have been affected by the data breach, an attack that didn't...
Today’s “Factories of the Future” are shifting to Time-Based Thinking Based on Powerful Strategies Developed at the Center for Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM), University of Wisconsin-Madison. Even if you have a small family-owned business or your company is a division of a large multi-national...
Android 6.0 will come with some treats for developers. Google just unloaded a slew of announcements Tuesday in San Francisco, at an event covering new hardware products, new software features, and some new capabilites of interest to its enormous community of Android app developers....
Brilliant entrepreneurs are wasting their talents, trapped inside Seattle’s big tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon. Pioneer Square Labs wants to give them a startup to run. Today with $12.5 million from 12 VCs and 50 angels, Pioneer Square Labs launches its startup studio....
For the past two decades, the web has been optimized for sight and touch. This is about to change in a big way. Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana, and the Amazon Echo are ushering in an era of voice-controlled devices and services. Soon, Facebook M will...
Unless you’ve been camping out under a rock for the last decade, you probably know that we’re totally destroying the Earth. We of wanton use of fossil fuels and reluctance to buy into change en masse are driving the single biggest crisis that faces our...
If you need to pinch your pennies, robots are a lifesaver. Automate a task and the savings roll in. Of course, there’s a catch. Much recent discussion has focused on the fear of technology killing jobs. David A. Mindell, author of the new book “Our Robots,...
A daily attempt to sort out the useful from the pointless when it comes to advice. Baseball legend Yogi Berra's death on Tuesday has driven plenty of people online to do searches like " Yogi Berra wisdom" or " Yogi Berra sayings" or " Yogi Berra...
Don't miss the big picture. In London, hotel windows are sealed tight in the winter. Recently, I walked into a hotel room and immediately smelled something … off—even foul, like an animal died somewhere unreachable. The odor dissipated after a little time, so I thought nothing...