Rita Curran, 24, was a Burlington, Vermont, elementary school teacher who was just beginning her career when her life was brutally cut short in July 1971. A roommate found her nude, beaten, and strangled to death. The case eventually went cold, languishing for over fifty years. Now, thanks to DNA and advancements in forensic research,…
Tesla Inc. is doubling down on its presence in California by establishing its global engineering headquarters in Palo Alto. The move comes after CEO Elon Musk moved the company’s headquarters from Silicon Valley to Texas in 2021, citing limited scalability in the Bay Area. Despite the move, over a third of Tesla’s global workforce is…
Last month, Volition Capital, a 13-year-old, 30-person Boston-based growth equity firm, announced it has closed its fifth fund with $675 million in capital commitments, bringing its total assets under management to $1.7 billion. While most VCs will tell you they had no problem raising their newest fund, Volition cofounder Larry Cheng — an alum of…
Feb 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Software Update Apple has revised the security advisories it released last month to include three new vulnerabilities impacting iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The first flaw is a race condition in the Crash Reporter component (CVE-2023-23520) that could enable a malicious actor to read arbitrary files as root. The iPhone…
A report from Mark Gurman at Bloomberg sheds new light on one of Apple’s most secretive rumored projects: non-invasive glucose monitoring for the Apple Watch. In fact, the report says that the project has been researched within Apple for over 12 years–back to the end of the Steve Jobs era and years before the release…
When you start up Netflix to watch Formula 1: Drive to Survive season 5, you may come in with a set of expectations. Drive to Survive airs months after the F1 season of the previous year, and weeks before the new F1 live streams. Some of my friends have said they always expect the series…
Are you interested in learning more about the US economy and the capitalist economic system? The circular flow model is a way to understand its ebbs and flows better, as it helps to visualize the interactions between different actors in the economy and how they influence the overall level of economic activity. Keep reading for…
It’s tax time, and companies nationwide are looking for sustainable write-offs to help soften the blow and reduce their carbon footprint. Like it or not, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) put into law many tax credits for green business practices. “It does contain a virtual garden of green incentives for small businesses’, entrepreneurs,…
Tesla is making California the home of its global engineering headquarters. CEO Elon Musk and California Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that Tesla’s new engineering HQ will be at the former offices of Hewlett-Packard. The sudden rekindling of Tesla’s relationship with California may be surprising after the EV-maker up and moved its corporate headquarters from…
Feb 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Software Update Apple has revised the security advisories it released last month to include three new vulnerabilities impacting iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The first flaw is a race condition in the Crash Reporter component (CVE-2023-23520) that could enable a malicious actor to read arbitrary files as root. The iPhone…
