They call it range anxiety, the fear that an electric vehicle could run out of juice, say somewhere south of Yeehaw Junction on the way to Disney World with three cranky kids aboard.

Such scenarios are one of the big hesitations for many people pondering the purchase of an EV.

Research going on at Florida International University could go a ...Read more

Even for Silicon Valley, the land of multibillion-dollar “unicorn” startups, the launch of 23andMe in 2006 attracted special attention.

Formed to offer genetic testing services directly to consumers, who spit into a receptacle and mailed it to the company for DNA analysis, its founders included Anne Wojcicki, who was married to Google co-...Read more

Startup acquisitions have boomed so far this year, capped by last week’s massive $32 billion deal for cybersecurity startup Wiz — a signal that Silicon Valley is optimistic about the Trump administration’s antitrust policies, and that venture-backed companies may finally have a way to cash out.

There have been 11 startup sales of more ...Read more

Spirit Airlines said Wednesday it is adding 15 nonstop destinations from Detroit Metro Airport.

The new and resuming routes from Detroit are to: Austin, Birmingham, Charleston, Hartford, Louisville, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Norfolk, Phoenix, Punta Cana, Richmond, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Juan and St. Louis. Nine of the routes are new, ...Read more

In early 2020, thousands of drivers — led by Southern California advocacy group Rideshare Drivers United — filed claims with the state against Uber and Lyft. They alleged the companies had illegally treated them as independent contractors and owed them more than $1.3 billion in wages, expenses and damages.

Now, the state is set to begin ...Read more

Elon Musk’s X is on pace for its first year of advertising revenue growth since the billionaire acquired the company in 2022, according to research firm Emarketer — in part because advertisers are reacting to Musk’s power in the Donald Trump administration.

The social network, formerly Twitter, is projected to generate $1.31 billion in U....Read more

Tucked in a former textile-manufacturing section of the Philadelphia's East Falls section, an open warehouse space is home to a paintball-goggle maker, an online glass distributor, a seamstress, and other small-business founders.

It's the two-year-old, newly-expanded Philadelphia center of WareSpace, which is taking the U.S. warehouse boom into...Read more

The fear of long charging times — or finding a safe place to plug in — are major deterrents keeping drivers from buying electric cars.

In the rollback of former President Joe Biden’s climate policies, the Trump administration pumped the breaks on more than $4.7 worth of charging station projects in Miami-Dade and put an end to a plan for ...Read more

23andMe Inc. said Tuesday that it experienced website delays, after a wave of customers sought to delete their genetic data before it can be sold through a planned bankruptcy auction.

A company spokesperson said the site “experienced some issues and delays due to increased traffic” on Monday, in response to Bloomberg News questions about ...Read more

A federal judge has set a trial date in the ongoing criminal fraud case against Boeing stemming from two fatal 737 MAX crashes six years ago.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on Tuesday set a trial date, potentially changing the course of the prosecution after several months of behind-the-scenes discussions between Boeing and the Justice ...Read more

Senior government officials mistakenly invited the editor in chief of the Atlantic to a group chat on the messaging app Signal, where the focus of conversation was U.S. airstrikes against rebel groups in Yemen. The app’s use by high-ranking national security officials has raised the question: Just how secure is Signal anyway?

On March 11, ...Read more

A federal judge has set a trial date in the criminal fraud case against Boeing, the latest step in the grinding legal process following two fatal 737 MAX crashes six years ago.

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor on Tuesday set a trial date, potentially changing the course of the prosecution after several months of behind-the-scenes discussions...Read more

California launched a new statewide online pesticide notification system this week that will warn farmworkers beforehand of upcoming pesticide applications.

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) says its Spray Days California online pesticide notification system is the “first-of its-kind.”

According to the Department of ...Read more

It wouldn’t be quite accurate to label the brief reign of acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek an unmitigated disaster.

That’s because, disastrous as it has been, there’s one mitigating factor: Dudek’s scorched-earth actions — and their apparent endorsement by others in the Trump administration — have awakened the ...Read more

As the pork and poultry industries cheer deregulation that will let them permanently increase the speed of production lines at slaughterhouses, workers say they’re already moving too fast.

“We don’t need a faster line,” said Aster Abrahame, who trims loins at the JBS pork plant in Worthington, Minn. “If it goes faster, more people ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Teenagers as young as 14 could soon be allowed to work overnight shifts as part of an effort in the Republican-led Legislature to roll back major aspects of the state’s child labor laws.

The proposal — which moved through its first Florida Senate committee Tuesday — comes as Gov. Ron DeSantis says a younger workforce...Read more

Eric McCullough spent months looking for an affordable place of his own but then moved into an apartment with his daughter, his only option to make ends meet.

McCullough, 59, lives on disability insurance and said he could not find apartments or houses for rent that he could afford on those payments alone.

“The magic question, to me, is what...Read more