Mother of fentanyl overdose survivor launches awareness campaign at Olathe Public Schools
The mother of a fentanyl overdose survivor launched an awareness campaign at Olathe Public Schools
The mother of a fentanyl overdose survivor launched an awareness campaign at Olathe Public Schools
Sanil Chawla remembers the meetings he had with countless artists in college. Chawla thought he might have a solution and launched a music monetization platform in 2020. During the pandemic, he pivoted the company into what it is today: Slingshot, which helps creatives find the tools they need to manage operational requirements.
Meta caught an Israeli marketing firm using fake Facebook accounts to run an influence campaign on its platform, the company said in its latest report on coordinated inauthentic behavior.
Closing arguments in Donald Trump's hush money trial ended on Tuesday.
In the quest to provide the best education for students across the country, legislation is constantly being reformed. All of those new education policies typically help, but are often hard to implement and difficult for parents to understand. The company developed an end-to-end public fund disbursement and e-commerce platform for program administration that makes educational offerings, like school tuition, tutoring, technology and extracurricular enrichment, more accessible.
In 2018, Fitbit launched Ace, a wearable tracker for kids. Fitbit notes that location is only shared via the app on a parent/guardian’s device, while location data automatically disappears after a day.
Kirby Arnold owns classic trucks and muscle cars. And now a Cybertruck. He shares his early adventures.
China has closed a third state-backed investment fund to bolster its semiconductor industry and reduce reliance on other nations, both for using and manufacturing wafers — prioritizing what is called chip sovereignty. China's National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, also known simply as "the Big Fund," had two previous vintages: Big Fund I (2014 to 2019) and Big Fund II (2019 to 2024). The latter was significantly larger than the former, but Big Fund III is larger than both at 344 billion yuan, or about $47.5 billion, public filings revealed.
Johnny Wactor, former "General Hospital" star, was shot and killed in downtown L.A. Police are now asking for the public's help.
Rhode Island is making it illegal to register a kei car, and it's asking enthusiasts who already have one to turn in their registration.
Last month, one of the Bay Area’s better-known early-stage venture capital firms, Uncork Capital, marked its 20th anniversary with a party in a renovated church in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood, where 420 guests showed up to help the firm celebrate, trade tips and share war stories. There’s no question the venture scene has changed meaningfully since Uncork got its start. When firm founder Jeff Clavier launched the firm, he was mostly using his savings to write six-figure checks to founders.
California will soon begin testing a pilot program that will tax drivers based on the miles they log to offset the loss of gas tax revenues from EVs.
Lucid Motors has cut six percent of its workforce ahead of a crucial EV SUV launch. That adds up to 400 people.
The White House has made it clear in recent weeks that President Biden and his allies see the independence of the Federal Reserve as a 2024 campaign issue. The audience may not be swing voters.
Also on our cheat sheet: Spring savings and early Memorial Day deals on Hamilton Beach, Lululemon, New Balance and more.
The biggest news stories this morning: Panasonic's new Fujifilm-killer, Starliner's scrubbed launch and another twist in the ScarJo / OpenAI tale.
A political consultant who admitted to using a deepfake of President Joe Biden's voice in a robocall scheme is facing dozens of charges, as well as a $6 million FCC fine.
Experts address West Nile virus, dengue fever and malaria concerns.
Elon Musk's X is preparing to make "likes" private on the social network, in a change that could potentially confuse users over the difference between something they've favorited and something they've bookmarked. According to new posts by company employees, the decision to hide likes is meant to incentivize engagement, by allowing people to favorite content that seems "edgy" and to protect their public image. The change comes across as somewhat unnecessary, given that X, the company formerly known as Twitter, already had a private way to save posts on the platform: bookmarks.
This is not a joke: According to a job listing, President Joe Biden's reelection campaign needs someone to manage memes. The "Partner Manager, Content and Meme Pages" hire will "initiate and manage day-to-day operations in engaging the internet’s top content and meme pages." “I do think that we can and should infuse relevant, trendy and fun moments into how we are communicating, especially on digital platforms,” Annie Wu Henry, a creator and digital communications strategist, told TechCrunch in February.
Volkswagen has delayed the launch of its ID.7 sedan in the US and Canada. Before Wednesday’s postponement, the automaker had slated the EV’s North American launch for this year.