On 28 May 2009, Google demoed a product called Wave on stage at I/O for 80 minutes and got a standing ovation from developers who had no idea what they had just watched, and 15 months later the company quietly shut it down because almost nobody could explain to a friend what it was actually forJune 5, 2026
Inside a six-walled wedge-foam chamber on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, the background sound is so far below human hearing that visitors start to perceive the grinding of their own joints, the rush of blood in their ears, and eventually a faint ringing that turns out to be the firing of their own nerves. Saving Tips June 2, 2026 Building 87 on Microsoft’s Redmond campus contains a room that registers a background sound level of negative 20.35 decibels, a…
When General James Mattis joined the Theranos board in 2013, he had already spent a year pushing Elizabeth Holmes’s fingerprick blood analyser toward soldiers in Afghanistan, and the only reason it never reached the battlefield was an Army regulatory officer named David Shoemaker who kept warning the FDA the device was not approved. Saving Tips May 28, 2026 General James Mattis joined the Theranos board of directors in July 2013, a few months after retiring as head of…
