Day: March 14, 2018

More than two years after a Wall Street Journal investigation exposed potential fraud at blood-testing startup Theranos, many of us have forgotten about the company. The Securities and Exchange Commission has not. Wednesday, the regulatory agency charged CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former President Ramesh Balwani […]

This morning, I woke to find the news of Stephen Hawking’s passing at the top of the Twitter feed on my iPhone, but thought nothing of it; it felt like a natural Twitter feature. Buzzfeed notes that other top news today (the congressional special election […]

At Dirty Harry’s Oakland high school, students protest Published on March 14, 2018 at 08:43PM by By Otis Taylor and Kevin Fagan At Oakland Technical High School — alma mater of Clint Eastwood, who glamorized gun use in movies such as “Dirty Harry” — students […]

Best Online TV Streaming Services: Your definitive guide to the best, most worthwhile streaming services you should subscribe to after cutting the cord There’s a reason that the cord cutting movement has only grown over the years: Cable bills are becoming unreasonably expensive. They’re expensive […]

Advancements in A.I. technology has paved the way for breakthroughs in speech recognition, natural language processing, and machine translation. A new startup called Voicery now wants to leverage those same advancements to improve speech synthesis, too. The result is a fast, flexible speech engine that […]

Some Bay Area students walk out but don’t want gun control Published on March 14, 2018 at 07:37PM by By Sophie Haigney and Kevin Fagan While hundreds of El Cerrito High School students crammed into the central quad Wednesday carrying signs such as “Protect children, […]

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MTV, Nickelodeon, BET, Comedy Central go dark in support Published on March 14, 2018 at 03:53PM by Jennifer Maas, provided by If you were watching MTV, BET, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, Comedy Central, TV Land or CMT when the channel went dark at 10 a.m. (in […]

NASA will host a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT Monday, March 19, to discuss a number of science investigations and instruments launching in April to the International Space Station on the next SpaceX commercial resupply mission. Audio of the teleconference will stream live on […]

Shooting threat locks down San Leandro school amid protests Published on March 14, 2018 at 07:55PM by By Nanette Asimov While thousands of students walked out of school Wednesday in California and across the country to demand stricter gun laws, a written threat of a […]