Lily Chang, autor en Bean watcher

Nov

2026

Georgia senator urges federal oversight on Flock Safety technology

Audits, a proposed city ordinance and a push in Washington are testing the license plate reader maker in the city where it was founded. Flock Safety, the license plate reader company built in Atlanta, is under growing pressure at home. Residents are pushing back at public meetings, city leaders are drafting permanent rules and one of Georgia's U.S. senators is pressing for federal limits. The fight in Flock's hometown comes as the startup, valued at $7.5 billion in its last reported funding round, shrinks its workforce and loses customers elsewhere. Officials in all four of metro Atlanta's largest counties have…

Nov

2026

By Lily Chang

Binance resumes withdrawals despite largest crypto hack in history

Investments and Business

The exchange says it has replaced most of the stolen crypto from its own funds, but customers pulled out $3.6 billion more than they put in after the restart.Binance began letting customers pull crypto out again on Sunday, less than three days after attackers drained roughly $6.3 billion from the exchange's hot wallets. Investigators say it is the largest crypto theft on record. Within hours of the restart, customers had withdrawn billions more than they deposited, though the company says volumes settled after an initial spike.The world's leading cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume asserts that it has substituted roughly 95%…

Nov

2026

By Lily Chang

Top investment destinations in technology beyond artificial intelligence

Science and Technology

Investment outside artificial intelligence is flowing most visibly into technologies that produce electricity, move it, store it, connect people, and improve health and security. Clean energy dominates the largest publicly tracked totals: the International Energy Agency expects global investment in clean energy technologies and infrastructure to reach about $2.2 trillion in 2025.There is no definitive global top-ten ranking. Industry reports count different things: a purchased electric vehicle, a new semiconductor factory, a venture-capital round, and a power-grid upgrade are not directly comparable. The ten technologies below are therefore major investment magnets, not a precise league table. The order broadly reflects…

Nov

2026

By Lily Chang

Martha Stewart regrets insensitive homeless costume and issues full apology

Culture and Entertainment

Initially, the 85-year-old lifestyle mogul defended the appearance as a means to generate awareness, but she shared a more comprehensive apology hours afterward, admitting that her first reply had missed the mark.Martha Stewart has apologized for dressing as a homeless person for Halloween, reversing course within hours of a first statement in which she described the costume as an attempt to draw attention to homelessness.In a message posted to Instagram on Sunday, Nov. 1, the 85-year-old businesswoman said her earlier explanation had not gone far enough and called the costume insensitive and unfunny. "It's hard to admit when you've really…