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The last year and a half has been a major eye opener for countless industries. As many white-collar employees have moved from offices to remote work, it has drawn into sharp focus just how ill-equipped many home setups are for hour after hour of Zoom calls. Even as sales of PCs and tablets saw a ma

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week's startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. On Equity this week, we discussed the value of the written word. You can imagine that the resulting argument is inherently biased, considering we are three jou

Why do we go to the office? This is not a rhetorical question. Do we go to be around other people and work collaboratively? Do we go because it's a dedicated location that allows us to focus on our work in a unique way? Do we go because we believe it's necessary to be “seen”? Do we go b

For a technology sector that would much prefer to focus on growth over geopolitics, the push for U.S.-China “decoupling” poses an inescapable threat. The fuzziness of the concept only increases the danger. U.S. distrust of China, particularly in technology, is nothing new. Indeed, Congress took

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated many technological shifts — how many of us knew what Zoom was before last spring? Rapidly developed mRNA COVID vaccines are themselves a case study in scientific and technological progress. Now efforts in the United States and Europe to require proof of said

“In 2007, I, along with a few other colleagues, founded Arbisoft because we loved solving a variety of computing problems rather than staying close to one particular domain or technology vertical. We felt it was much easier to do that in a software services company than a software product com

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Friday! Dear friends, we made it to the end of the week. It was a big, busy few days, so give yourself a round of applause. Looking ahead, not only do we have ear

In the tech industry, diversity is a hot topic. We've seen companies such as Facebook and Google commit to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in hopes of improving their company culture. But analysis shows that there has been no appreciable change in diversity for these allegedly DEI-d

Time and time again, tech’s most powerful companies have pushed the narrative that any threat to their own trillion(ish)-dollar businesses will trickle down, hurting the small companies that rely on their products. But counter to the warm and fuzzy anecdotes that Big Tech has rolled out over

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for October 21, 2021! News today was all over the map, including a number of items dealing with a very particular former U.S. pr

You know the expression “garbage in, garbage out,” right? There's absolutely no place in artificial intelligence or machine learning for bad data, and that's just one reason technewss is thrilled to announce the iMerit ML DataOps Summit, in partnership with iMerit, on December 2, 2021.

Apple has yet to issue a mandate similar to Google’s that would require all employees to be vaccinated, but it’s tightening its COVID-19 protocols nonetheless. According to Bloomberg, the tech giant will start requiring all unvaccinated corporate employees to be tested for COVID-19 ever

Marginalized communities, survivors of abuse, politicians, law enforcement — they all use encrypted communications to keep their information safe. But the encryption of the kinds of services you and I use every day — from messaging to confidential internal company communications —

With the pandemic turning us into delivery experts, consumers have also switched on to meal kits in droves, given that it combines both delivery and home cooking. But many meal kits can be inflexible. The Kitchenful startup in Germany realized this and so it allows users to browse recipes from food