A newly graduated San Diego State University alum has raised $1.6 million — largely through her Twitter following — to invest in startups founded by diverse people rarely seen in the entrepreneurial world.

Paige Finn Doherty, a 22-year-old computer science major, collected the money from angel investors who follow her investing advice on ...Read more

In February, SaltWorks, a Woodinville maker of sea salt consumer products, got some unsettling legal news: The 19-year-old company was being sued for allegedly infringing on a patent covering technology in its e-commerce system.

Although the patent in the lawsuit appeared so generic it could apply to any kind of e-commerce, SaltWorks reportedly...Read more

One of the trickiest hurdles to creating a sequel is how to make it feel fresh, like it’s a new project instead of an expansion pack. That’s the issue facing Capcom after it brilliantly revamped its flagship franchise with “Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.”

Making a move to first person and developing an innovative narrative design kept �...Read more

Last week’s column on home printing brought some good emails this week.

Here’s one from Mac: Your current column on printers hit my last nerve. I would love to see you do an expanded column on the trap you are in when you purchase a Hewlett Packard printer and must use its cartridges for the rest of your life. Without getting in trouble ...Read more

BALTIMORE — At first, Minyanna Farmer thought the LinkedIn message from a recruiter was spam. She couldn’t imagine she could work from home and increase her salary by 80%.

But when it turned out to be real, the Forest Park resident didn’t think twice, accepting the offer to become senior manager of relationship marketing for BETMGM, an ...Read more

“Tom Clancy’s The Division” has become one of the biggest franchises for Ubisoft. The third-person shooter blends elements of an MMO and cover-based shooter masterfully and wraps it in a compelling storyline about a post-apocalyptic America hit hard by a deadly virus.

Last week, Ubisoft announced it’s expanding that universe with ...Read more

“Alexa, who is the woman behind your voice?”

Voiceover artist Nina Rolle has been identified as the actual human who the famous artificial intelligence service is patterned after.

Although Amazon has never revealed the identity of the person who took to the microphone to help create its ubiquitous virtual assistant, Alexa, journalist Brad ...Read more

Q: I found an old floppy disk with pictures of my grandfather. But the picture files have the suffix ".max" and I don't have the right computer software to open them. What can I do?

—Frank Bayona, Kenner, La.

A: Photo files with the ".max" suffix were scanned from printed pictures by a program called ScanSoft PaperPort. Ideally, you would ...Read more

Becoming a public company brings much more scrutiny, and placating investors is doubly difficult when a business isn’t yet generating meaningful revenue (as several start-ups backed by special purpose acquisition companies have found out).

Imagine, though, being a novice listed business trying to complete a suborbital space-travel test ...Read more

As Army Futures Command continues to expand its presence and modernization efforts around its base in Austin, Texas, its best practices could help model innovation for the Department of Defense and the rest of the military.

On Tuesday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks toured several Austin sites for the Austin-based innovation ...Read more

Yolo and LMK, two Snapchat apps that allow users to send anonymous messages, are no longer available to users of the social media platform after parent company Snap suspended them Tuesday.

The suspension comes in response to a lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of Kristin Bride, the mother of an Oregon teen who took his own life in 2020 after ...Read more

One of the last things that Carson Bride did before taking his own life was look to his phone for help.

The 16-year-old had been receiving anonymous messages on Snapchat for months, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday in California, through a popular Snapchat app called YOLO. The messages included sexual comments and taunts over ...Read more

Taxes may be one of life's certainties. But paying to pay them isn't.

In many other countries, the government does the math for you and tells you how much to pay, at no cost to you (beyond the taxes you are paying in the first place). In America, the Internal Revenue Service asks you to guess how much to pay, then punishes you if you are wrong....Read more

PHILADELPHIA – He found masses of pollen as thick as “oatmeal,” and once discovered that grains from palm trees had ridden the winds for hundreds of miles to reach his front porch.

For 17 years, Timothy Craig intercepted the airborne gametes of trees, grasses, and weeds with a whirling trap, assiduously examined the captives with a ...Read more

Google is making a fortune by selling users’ personal information despite the company’s pledge that it never sells the data, a lawsuit filed this week claims.

“Google promises its hundreds of millions of users that it ‘will never sell any personal information to third parties’ and ‘you get to decide how your information is used.’ ...Read more

The decision by a Facebook Inc. panel to extend for up to six months former President Donald Trump’s banishment from the social media platform has renewed calls to revoke the legal shield that enabled Facebook to grow into one of the richest and most powerful companies in the world.

Minutes after the announcement, it was clear that the ...Read more

I got a note from a co-worker last week telling me about a discussion she had with a friend about the travails of printing while working from home. The printers they have at home are not as good as the big ones at work, and they had both thrown away home printers that were not cooperating.

I’ve had the same problem.

No one wants to spend a...Read more