DocuSign CEO Dan Springer is stepping down, the company announced Tuesday. The decision comes after the e-signature software maker lost more than 60% of its value year to date. The company didn’t provide a reason for his departure but said Springer “has agreed to step aside,” effective immediately. Chairman of Read more…
China is fine-tuning its censorship machine, this time proposing changes in how to regulate the billions of online comments posted in the country every day. On June 17, the internet regulator Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) published a draft update on the responsibilities of platforms and content creators in managing Read more…
Investment product provider ProShares is set to list the U.S.’s first exchange-traded fund (ETF) allowing investors to bet against the price of bitcoin (BTC). The ProShares Short Bitcoin Strategy (BITI), which is designed to deliver the inverse of bitcoin’s performance, will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Read more…
Volvo Trucks said Monday that it had begun to test vehicles that use “fuel cells powered by hydrogen,” with the Swedish firm claiming their range could extend to as much as 1,000 kilometers, or a little over 621 miles. In a statement, Gothenburg-headquartered Volvo Trucks said refueling of the vehicles Read more…
Check out this handmade sign posted to the front door of a shuttered Jimmy John’s sandwich chain shop in Missouri last week. See if you can tell from the store owner’s message what happened. If you guessed that someone in the Jimmy John’s store might have fallen victim to a Read more…
Aiming to produce environmentally friendly alternatives to plastic food wrap and containers, a Rutgers scientist has developed a biodegradable, plant-based coating that can be sprayed on foods, guarding against pathogenic and spoilage microorganisms and transportation damage. Their article, published in the science journal Nature Food, describes the new kind of Read more…
Hubble Space Telescope Photographs Mysterious Star Cluster with Same-Generation Stars “A celestial workhorse and its dedicated team of astronomers are at it again,” reports Space.com, “by delivering a hypnotic new image of a globular cluster and its infinite depth of stars.” But while a new image from the Hubble Space Read more…