Disposable diapers are a massive environmental offender. Roughly 300,000 of them are sent to landfills or incinerated every minute, according to the World Economic Forum, and they take hundreds of years to decompose. It’s a $60 billion business. One alternative approach has been compostable diapers, which can be made out of wood pulp or bamboo….
Dylan Field, co-founder and CEO of Figma, appears at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on May 9, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Design software company Figma filed for an IPO on Tuesday, and plans to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol FIG. The offering would…
Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been on an artificial intelligence spending blitz — and Wall Street does not seem to mind. Zuckerberg has invested tens of billions of dollars in computing infrastructure and research and development, and he’s worked tirelessly to implement AI across the internal organization and to enhance user engagement and ad…
A customer tries on the Apple Vision Pro headset during the product launch at the Apple Store in New York City on February 2, 2024. Angela Weiss | AFP | Getty Images Apple has accused a former engineer for its Vision Pro headset computer of stealing company trade secrets before starting a new job at…
Tuesday marks the first day of trading for the second half of 2025. It was a rocky six months for the U.S. stock market and the Club’s 30-name portfolio as investors weighed President Donald Trump’s tariffs, ongoing geopolitical conflict and the Federal Reserve’s next monetary policy decision. The market ebbed and flowed, but ultimately ended…
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) passengers walk off a train at the Richmond station on March 15, 2023 in Richmond, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Commuters in and around San Francisco rode into work for free on Tuesday morning due to an outage in the Clipper card system, which is used to handle payments…
An image of a Quantix drone made by AeroVironment. David Mcnew | Getty Images News | Getty Images AeroVironment shares fell 7% Tuesday after the defense contractor said it plans to offer $750 million in common stock and $600 million in convertible senior notes due in 2030 to repay debt. The drone maker said it…
Kobbie Mainoo of Manchester United during the Premier League match between Manchester United FC and Aston Villa FC at Old Trafford on May 25, 2025 in Manchester, England. Alex Livesey | Getty Images The English Premier League is bringing artificial intelligence to the soccer pitch through a new partnership with Microsoft. The five-year agreement will…
Elon Musk speaks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump as they watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty Images News | Getty Images Shares of Tesla were under pressure on Tuesday after President Donald Trump said in a late…
Jaque Silva | Nurphoto | Getty Images Internet firm Cloudflare will start blocking artificial intelligence crawlers from accessing content without website owners’ permission or compensation by default, in a move that could significantly impact AI developers’ ability to train their models. Starting Tuesday, every new web domain that signs up to Cloudflare will be asked…
