Lea Artz, Head of Newsroom and Central Operations for Citizen, explains how the new app works. Citizen pushes an alert to your phone when there's an emergency in your area.
Artz says Citizen could've helped the situation in Hawaii when a ballistic missile alert was accidentally triggered to anyone with a smartphone. Artz says Citizen "cuts through the noise."
Citizen first launched as "Vigilante," but was quickly taken off the App Store after Apple believed it encouraged people to intervene in crimes being committed. Artz says Citizen has learned its lesson.
Citizen is credited with keeping people safe and informed during the New York Tribeca terror attack in October. An elementary school principal says the app helped her make decisions and keep her students out of harm's way.
Apple Pay is getting in on the buy now pay later boom with a feature allowing users to split purchases into four separate payments over six weeks at no additional cost or interest.
San Francisco-based technology startup Illumix just closed a $18 million Series A round of funding, and in a rare move for the Shark Tank star, Mark Cuban contributed.
Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant venture, is reaching out to major U.S. neurosurgery centers to potentially begin testing its devices on humans, according to a Reuters report.
A Minnesota utility began shutting down a nuclear power plant near Minneapolis on Friday after discovering water containing a low level of radioactive material was leaking from a pipe for the second time. While the utility and health officials say it is not dangerous, the issue has prompted concerns among nearby residents and raised questions about aging pipelines.
