Another program that gets high marks from founders is the Financial Solutions Lab (FinLab), an offshoot of the Center for Financial Services Innovation, a 13-year-old nonprofit focused on serving unbanked and underbanked customers. What is FinLab and what’s the appeal to founders? Broadly speaking, it’s a 2.5-year-old program that aims to find and nurture fintech startups that… Read More
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My friend Bassel Khartabil may no longer be with us, but his dream of spreading open culture to the Middle East will live on through those it inspires and enables.
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Celebrities ranging from Gwyneth Paltrow to Infowar’s Alex Jones swear by colloidal silver as a germ-fighting miracle cure. But the medical community says there’s no evidence it works.
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Privacy rights group, Privacy International, is running a crowdfunding campaign to try to raise funds to help cover its legal costs as it continues to challenge the UK government’s use of hacking as a mass surveillance technique for domestic security agencies to gather intelligence. Read More
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Eager for a fight, London’s black-cab drivers vow to battle Uber to preserve a livelihood they say is under threat from the rule-breaking ride-hailing service.
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New technologies help brewers meet the age-old challenge: Making this year’s beer taste like last year’s.
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The search giant wants you to buy its new phone. The pitch? The Pixel aims to be good at everything Google is good at.
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Nearly three-fourths of employees say they’d leave their current job for a company that lets them work remotely more often.
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From play by the rules to you’re a monster, taxi drivers in London aren’t short on opinions on how Uber has affected their lives and their business.
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The V-22 Osprey-inspired aircraft could replace the Army’s aging Black Hawk helicopters.
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