A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters

When I speak to Blake Resnick, he’s walking around his drone startup’s newest office space in Seattle—a cavernous 50,000-square-foot facility that, Resnick estimates, won’t be fully set up until later in the year—potentially November. Still, the big (and for now, largely empty) building offers the promise of a fast-growing company intent on conquering its particular…

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The TSA fiasco is an appalling example of how we treat essential workers

Harassment and small paychecks have long been the norm. But in this case, the partial government shutdown is also creating a dysfunctional—even unsafe—atmosphere for airport customers. Amid the partial government shutdown, at least 61,000 Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents are going without pay. Regardless, the employees, who are considered essential workers, have to continue showing…

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New Mexico just handed Meta its first courtroom defeat over child safety, and the rest of the country is watching

A jury in Santa Fe on Tuesday ordered Meta to pay $375 million in civil penalties after finding the company misled consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangered children. New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez’s office called the decision a “watershed moment for every parent concerned about what could happen to their kids…

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