Jesse Jackson obituaryThe Martin Luther King protege who helped reshape AmericaAnthony Zurcher,North America correspondentandSam WoodhouseGetty ImagesJesse Jackson, a key figure during the US civil rights movement of the 1960s, was known for being the first African-American to make the jump from activism to major-party presidential politics.A protege of Martin Luther King Jr, Jackson built a...

Integrate raises $17M to move defense project management into the 21st century John Conafay, a veteran of the US Air Force, has spent most of his career leading business development at public and private aerospace companies, including Spire, Astranis, and ABL Space Systems.   At each company, Conafay ran into the same software hurdle: collaborating on government contracts was a logistical...

Podcast Listenership Outranks Talk Radio for the First Time in HistoryA decade ago, you may not have been able to name a single podcast (unless it was Serial). Now, if you're on social media or music streaming platforms, you're inundated with them. Because of their growing popularity, a survey from Edison Research's Share of Ear found that for the first time ever, more Americans aged 13 years...

My Original AirPods Max Stopped Working, So I Put Them in the Freezer. Really.Apple has announced the AirPods Max 2, finally updating its premium headphones with the improved H2 chip that enables better noise cancelling, audio quality and voice isolation when you're talking on a call or recording audio. The news certainly grabbed my attention, because my 5-year-old original AirPods Max have...

No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government As Sam Altman discovered Saturday night, it’s a fraught time to do work for the U.S. government. Around 7 p.m., the OpenAI CEO announced he would be fielding questions publicly on X, as a way of demystifying his company’s decision to pick up the Pentagon contract that Anthropic had just walked away from.  Most of...