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OAKLAND, Calif.—Earlier this month, Y Combinator, the famed Silicon Valley incubator dropped a bombshell: it had selected this city to be the home of its new "Basic Income" pilot project, to start later this year.
The idea is pretty simple. Give some people a small amount of money per month, no strings attached, for...
SpaceX’s billionaire...
Microsoft and Facebook will place a cutting-edge undersea cable across the Atlantic Ocean, stretching 6,600 kilometers or more than 4,100 miles from Virginia Beach, Va., to Bilbao, Spain, capable of hurtling data under the ocean at speeds of 160 Terabits per second.
The companies say...
A startup that is looking to turn stoves into...
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Yesterday in a press conference and speech in North Dakota, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump announced what some are terming his energy policy. His announcement was extremely short on specifics, included factual inaccuracies, and in some cases contained obvious internal contradictions. As such, what he said might better be termed "energy aspirations." We'll have...
Seattle’s traffic system is buckling under the weight of so many newcomers.
Many of the traffic signals were built before Seattle’s tech-driven boom attracted...
Google will be taking another step towards an HTML5-only Web later this year, as the systematic deprecation and removal of Flash continues.
In a plan outlined last week, Flash will be disabled by default in the fourth quarter of this year. Embedded Flash content will not run, and JavaScript attempts to detect the plugin will not find it. Whenever Chrome detects that a site is...
Tesla Motors says it will ramp up production of its best-selling Model 3 electric car much more quickly...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Nearly five decades...
The explosion of craft breweries in recent years has been great for beer lovers, but in an era when many people have a fear of missing out (online or IRL) many find it hard to pick which bars and breweries...
