Jennifer Golick remembered for helping ‘countless families heal’ Published on March 10, 2018 at 08:51PM by By Sophie Haigney and Jenna Lyons Boys used to line up outside therapist Jennifer Golick’s office door at the Muir Wood Adolescent and Family Services center in Petaluma, waiting […]
Day: March 10, 2018
Greece frees German journalists arrested near Turkish border
A court in the Greek town of Orestiada on Saturday said it accepted that the pair, a 33-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man, had not known that they had entered a restricted military zone on the Greek-Turkish border. The journalists had been reporting on a […]
Google Assistant now gives you more control over connected devices
There are further Assistant updates regardless of how connected your home might be. Actions now include more advanced media playback for formats beyond music and podcasts. You can listen to clips from TV shows or a white noise generator, for instance, and get control over […]
GV partner Lo Toney wants to raise $50 million to fund diverse investors
GV partner Lo Toney is looking to raise up to $50 million for his new fund, Plexo Capital, Axios first reported. Since 2017, Toney has been incubating Plexo Capital inside GV, formerly known as Google Ventures. The idea with Plexo Capital, which is backed by Alphabet, […]
Dropbox Chief to Join Elite Ranks of Idea-to-I.P.O. Founders by NELLIE BOWLES
By NELLIE BOWLES Drew Houston, chief executive of Dropbox, is set to become a member of a small club of entrepreneurs who steered a start-up through to the public markets. Published: March 10, 2018 at 01:00AM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/2DhlGPW via IFTTT
Social Media Is Reshaping Sex Work—But Also Threatening It
One morning last May, Melody Kush discovered that someone was using her Twitter photos to catfish people into paying for a Snapchat premium account that didn’t even exist. Kush is a sex worker—an erotic model, to be precise—and for someone who does much of her […]
SFGATE: Christine Loeber remembered for ‘strong moral compass’
Christine Loeber remembered for ‘strong moral compass’ Published on March 10, 2018 at 07:18PM by By Lizzie Johnson She wanted to make a difference, so she dedicated her life to helping those who were broken. Since September 2016, Christine Loeber, 48, had been the executive […]
Corporate bio VCs are backing more rounds and making bigger bets
Biotech is a lot like venture capital. Vast amounts of research, testing and marketing go into a wide range of therapies. But in the end, it’s just a tiny fraction that deliver most returns. That similarity may be why most of the biggest biotech and […]
Netflix’s real advantage is that it’s a tech company first
For Netflix, the tech is just as important as the storytelling. Regardless of how many shows or movies Netflix produces, it needs to ensure that its 118 million subscribers can watch them without issue — no matter where they are in the world, which smartphone […]
How to mine Bitcoin
When Bitcoin was first introduced in 2009, mining the world's first and premier cryptocurrency needed little more than a home PC — and not even a fast one at that. Today the barrier for entry is far higher if you want to make any kind […]