The North Carolina childhood home of the late musical legend Nina Simone has been restored after being saved from demolition, preservationists announced.The big picture: The restoration is part of a nationwide movement to protect Black cultural heritage sites, backed by significant philanthropic investment.Driving the news: The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announced in November
Plus: the FDA’s newly-appointed head drug regulator is out This is today’s edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Everything you need to know about AI and coding AI has already transformed how code is written, but a new wave of autonomous
Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Micron is retiring the Crucial brand, marking the end of its line of budget-friendly solid-state drives (SSDs) and RAM kits, as reported earlier by VideoCardz . In
Published: November 24, 2025, 12:03 am Last updated: November 21, 2025, 8:40 pm As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond
Journalist U.S. private-sector employment contracted in November, and the weaker labor market reading is already impacting crypto-market sentiment. Small businesses led the decline, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report , released on 3 December, while mid-sized and large companies continued to hire. The mixed U.S private payrolls report emerges at a critical time
TLDR Tokenization is seen as a transformative process, converting real-world assets into digital tokens to increase financial system efficiency. Brian Armstrong believes that tokenization will unlock new opportunities for businesses and investors while improving transparency. Larry Fink acknowledges the growing institutional demand for Bitcoin and the increasing role it plays in the global financial system.
Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Woojer is best known for its vibrating vests and belt straps that let you feel the sounds from games, movies, and music. Now the company has
Before it was a Broadway sensation, Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s Wicked was a summertime offering in San Francisco, working out its kinks before its October 2003 opening at New York City’s Gershwin Theatre. But though that SF preview run was over 22 years ago, Wicked: For Good director Jon M. Chu remembers it well.
Approximately 80 percent of companies with climate plans validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) use absolute reduction goals as the guide for shrinking their carbon footprint. A growing number of businesses, however, are adopting emissions intensity metrics to manage emissions from upstream and downstream activities outside their control — the so-called Scope 3
For many years, Intel was an American success story: the most valuable chipmaker in the world and the undisputed leader in the manufacture of microprocessors, the brains inside personal computers and internet servers. Its sustainability ambitions led the industry, as well. For nearly a decade, Intel bought more clean power than any other U.S. company.
