Europe’s most popular ride-hailing service is launching e-scooters

Mytaxi, the Daimler-owned Uber competitor, announced today it would launch an electric scooter pilot in Southern Europe later this year, with a full international roll-out planned for 2019. Daimler initially took a 15 percent stake in Hamburg-based mytaxi in 2012, adding the company to its portfolio […]

Signal’s “Sealed Sender” Is a Clever New Way to Shield Your Identity

A key part of what makes Signal the leading encrypted messaging app is its effort to minimize the amount of data or metadata each message leaves behind. The messages themselves are fully encrypted as they move across Signal’s infrastructure, and the service doesn’t store logs […]

A digital revolution is reshaping Democratic campaigns

Jordan Birnholtz Contributor Jordan Birnholtz is the cofounder of The Tuesday Company, which makes tools to help progressives organize in a digital world. < p dir=”ltr”>Two weeks before the 2016 election, Bloomberg’s Joshua Green and Sasha Issenberg published a story about Trump’s brash, self-aggrandizing digital […]

Delivering a blow to wildlife, China reverses a critical ban on the use of tiger and rhino parts

Delivering a blow to wildlife, China reverses a critical ban on the use of tiger and rhino parts <img width=”660″ height=”495″ alt=”” src=”https://c402277.ssl.cf1.rackcdn.com/photos/15766/images/simple_style_full/Tiger_hero.jpg?1529598858″ />In an enormous setback for wildlife conservation, China announced it will allow hospitals to use tiger bone and rhino horn from captive-bred […]