A U.S. District Court judge on Thursday allowed New York-based startup Kalshi to legally offer betting on the outcome of the November Congressional elections (Warning: source paywalled; alternative source), despite opposition from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which plans to appeal the decision due to concerns about potential market Read more…
General Motors is joining forces with EVgo, one of the biggest electric vehicle charging operators in the United States, to build 400 ultra-fast DC chargers nationwide to support the growing number of battery-powered cars hitting U.S. roads. To be clear, these are individual stalls, not charging stations. However, the two Read more…
Can AI kill the enterprise software app industry that’s led by companies such as Salesforce and Workday? That’s the trillion-dollar question at the heart of recent comments from the CEO of Klarna, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, who’s made a name for himself — and drawn some skepticism too — as a chief Read more…
Japan is overhauling how its ubiquitous 24-hour mini-police stations are operated nationwide as more crime fighting moves from the streets to the web. Called koban in Japanese, officers at these small police boxes handle a variety of tasks from responding to crime and patrolling neighborhoods to handling lost items. There Read more…
The FDA on Thursday approved the first hearing aid software for Apple’s latest AirPods Pro earbuds. According to Apple, the feature will be pushed to eligible devices through a software update in the coming weeks. The move, which comes two years after the FDA first approved over-the-counter hearing aids, could Read more…
Employees’ negative daily emotions and lack of well-being can ultimately hurt worker engagement — and the economy, according to a new report released this week. Gallup, in its “State of the Global Workplace,” estimates that low employee engagement costs the global economy $8.9 trillion, or 9% of global GDP. The Read more…
Two astronauts, billionaire Jared Isaacman and SpaceX engineer Sarah Gillis, completed the world’s first private spacewalk outside a SpaceX capsule, testing new spacesuits and procedures in a risky mission that pushes the boundaries of commercial spaceflight. The astronauts on the Polaris Dawn mission went one at a time, each spending Read more…