Go up 35,000 feet in an airliner and it’s misery—your nose gets all dried out, your ears pop, and now they’re charging $9 for a Jack and soda. All laughable plights compared to what the bar-headed goose endures in its migration over the Himalayas, where it hits altitudes of 26,000 feet, all without the luxuries…

Long have I envied—and despised—the folks running the mixing board at live music venues. Slide the guitars up to max, drown out the vocals, and sit back with a beer while the audience strains to make sense of the music. Such has been my experience, anyway. With my hearing on the decline (a problem impacting…

The northwest corner of Newark Bay is the kind of place comedians have in mind when they mock New Jersey as a cesspool. The grim industrial coast the bay shares with the Passaic River is lined with the hulks of old chemical plants that treated their surroundings like a toilet. The most infamous of these…

Last April, Elon Musk promised that Tesla would soon be able to power its electric cars for more than 1 million miles over the course of their lifespan. At the time, the claim seemed a bit much. That’s more than double the mileage Tesla owners can expect to get out of their car’s current battery…

Disrupt SF will light up on San Francisco on Oct. 2-4, and as usual we’ve designed the show to be unmissable for founders, investors and just about anyone in the…

Amazon is building wireless earbuds that offer Alexa voice assistant access, and fitness tracking for use during activities, according to a new report from CNBC. These earbuds, combined with a…

Twitter today says it’s expanding its policies to prohibit financial scams on its platform — something you’d think would have already been banned, but apparently was never directly addressed through…

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Amazon is introducing a new feature to its Alexa Show device designed to help blind and other low-vision customers identify common household pantry items by holding them up in front…

Running an ethical tech company is underrated. From fostering a diverse and inclusive company to examining your technology’s impact on society, it all comes down to ethics. Ellen Pao, who…