There is no shortage of controversial opinions on Bitcoin these days. Contrary to what people may expect, not all of these opinions come from outside of cryptocurrency. Roger Ver, a person who has been tweeting some strange things lately, has made yet another disturbing statement … | Continue reading
Members of Donald Trump’s presidential transition team were told to save materials relevant to the federal investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to a memo obtained by Politico and The New York Times.The instruction, which came from the team’s la … | Continue reading
Amazon is buying American supermarket chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion, the online retail giant announced today. The acquisition is technically happening as part of a merger agreement that will see Amazon will pick up the supermarket’s net debt and purchase its stock at $42 pe … | Continue reading
Look out, Netflix and Amazon. After dipping its toe into the water with Planet of the Apps, today Apple announced the latest development in its push into original content. It is hiring Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg, who since 2005 had been co-presidents of Sony Pictures Ente … | Continue reading
Following speculation last month, Amazon has reportedly acquired Whole Foods in a massive deal valued at $13.7 billion. For more context, that equals about $42 per share. Whole Foods CEO John Mackey will remain acting as the CEO of the popular grocery store chain after the deal h … | Continue reading
Bloomberg News is reporting that Amazon is going to acquire Whole Foods.The acquisition price is a reported $42 per share or roughly $13.7 billion (according to CNBC).Developing… Read More | Continue reading
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where each week we discuss other people’s copious dollars and lacking sense. This week, Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley and I — Alex Wilhelm — were lucky enough to have Charles Hudson join our little crew. … | Continue reading
Amazon has announced something of a curve ball acquisition today, as the internet giant plans to snap up healthy supermarket chain Whole Foods Market in an all-cash deal worth nearly $14 billion. Founded out of Austin, Texas, in 1980, Whole Foods Market specializes in organic foo … | Continue reading
The death toll from the fire at Grenfell Tower, the 24-story apartment building in London, has climbed to 30, the Metropolitan Police said Friday.“I do believe that the number will increase,” Commander Stuart Cundy said.Police said 24 people are still in hospital, 12 of them in c … | Continue reading
This is it … your absolute last day to invest in the Rainmaker Platform at pricing that will never be seen again. The party’s over today at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time (you can read the original announcement with all the details here). We hope you’ll join the Rainmaker family before w … | Continue reading
The School Where War and Persecution are Familiar SubjectsRJ Wolcott | Lansing State Journal[Nasim] Mohammad left school in the fourth grade. It was around the time that the Taliban took power in Ghazni Province, his home. He wanted to keep his mother safe, to be her guardian. .. … | Continue reading
Wow, that was a long one. E3 2017 began for our away team on Friday last week, for those of us back in the UK on Saturday night, and has barely let up since. I've already mentioned that the volume of hype is now out of all proportion to the number of brand new game reveals, and t … | Continue reading
IO Interactive has announced it has become a fully independent studio. The Copenhagen-based team said it has agreed to a management buyout with owner S… | Continue reading
Precious few investors or entrepreneurs are looking to what might be the greatest unicorn opportunity yet — the elder boom. Read More | Continue reading
The first code for bitcoin scaling proposal SegWit2x has been released for testing. Notably, it might be compatible with another proposal, BIP 148. | Continue reading
This week The Europas Startup Conference and Awards once again pulled together the best startups in Europe for a day of conversation, networking and partying. The conference day is rounded out by the evening awards where the hottest startups in Europe are honoured, based on the … | Continue reading
How do you set summer internship goals so both you and your intern get the most out of their time with your company? A framework to get you started. | Continue reading
The Moto C Plus shines when it comes to battery life, thanks to the 4,000 mAh battery and relatively frugal components. The phone is launching on India soon. | Continue reading
Last month, Capcom unexpectedly announced that they would be releasing a brand new mobile iteration in the Street Fighter series, dubbed Street Fighter IV: Champion Edition. Owing to the quality of the last few games in the series that have made the transition to the smaller scre … | Continue reading
Facebook has a notifications problem.For whatever reason (maybe to help fix that pesky engagement problem), Facebook has really amped up the notifications spam lately. And it sucks. Call me old fashioned, but I remember when a Facebook notification meant that one of your friends … | Continue reading
This is our final update from E3 week. Read the previous ones: Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday It's over. After seven full days that felt like thre… | Continue reading
It’s always great to reconnect with old friends, and that especially holds true for old Internet friends. That must be why it was such a delight to spend some time chatting with Ana Marie Cox, as a guest on “With Friends Like These“. (And, as we reference in this | Continue reading
Another tragedy, another sad opportunity for ugly conspiracy theories. SEE ALSO: Firefighter's tweet goes viral in the wake of the London tower fireIn the aftermath of the horrendous fire that ripped through a 24-story high-rise block in West London killing at least 30 people, th … | Continue reading
Pokemon Go players might be in for a huge surprise as creator Niantic has announced on its official support page that in-game gyms will soon be closing temporarily. While the company stopped short of dropping any explicit hints about what changes players can expect, it mentioned … | Continue reading
LAVORI DI ASFALTATURA IN VIA NURSINA L’intervento inizierà lunedì 26 giugno per una durata massima di 15 giorni Al via i lavori di sistemazione del manto stradale in via Nursina. L’intervento, che richiederà la fresatura e l’asfaltatura del tratto compreso tra la rotatoria di v … | Continue reading
The online gaming and eSports industry have a lot of fan following. The market players in the segment rarely shy away from using the latest of the technologies. Realizing the opportunity and to further add value to the sector, Alexey Zakharov and Igor Solomatin have introduced Sk … | Continue reading
Samsung has been bullish on virtual reality hardware, hoping that its early moves in headsets and devices to shoot content will give it a stronger position in the space as (and if!) it continues to expand to more applications and users. Now TechCrunch has learned that as part of … | Continue reading
Should purveyors of ICOs fear the long arm of US law? Three attorneys cite a recent case that suggests the answer is yes.Source | Continue reading
Nothing's worse than a cramp. Check out the sports drink designed by a Nobel Prize winning chemist that gets rid of cramps with this pharma based spotlight! | Continue reading
LevelUp, a Boston-based mobile payment and food order platform, is this weeks Spicy Spotlight! Learn everything you need to know about this Boston company. | Continue reading
“I decide when I’m done.”This is Lightning McQueen’s rebuttal after he suffers a horrific crash that has many in the racing world speculating that he should retire. But it also sounds a bit like a declaration of intent from Cars 3, a thoroughly unnecessary installment in a Pixar … | Continue reading
A video released by Otto Warmbier’s brother shows the U.S. student with his tour group in North Korea in January 2016, just before he was detained for allegedly defacing a political poster. Photo: Austin Warmbier | Continue reading
Two episodes into the first season of HBO’s The Leftovers, the beleaguered suburban police chief Kevin Garvey faced an existential crisis because of a bagel. He placed its two halves onto the conveyor belt of the office toaster—but no bagel, toasted or untoasted, materialized on … | Continue reading
The biggest question regarding both Apple and Samsung's upcoming flagship phones is currently this: Will they come with a fingerprint reader embedded into the screen?And while the jury is still out on both the upcoming iPhone 8 and Samsung's Note 8, a new report claims that the f … | Continue reading
Ob das gesund ist? Das Designstudio Theoriz projizieren mithilfe der Tracking-Technik von Vive VR und dem Augmenta-Trackingsystem sich an die Bewegungen eines menschlichen Akteurs angepasste 3D-Welten in einen Raum. Projection mapping in Echtzeit. Uff.... | Continue reading
Art tool brand Reeves celebrated its new brand look with an event that took place yesterday (15 June) which featured an immersive photo experience and real-time build of an art installation. | Continue reading
Check out the latest rumors regarding Samsung's upcoming flagship device, the Galaxy Note 8. | Continue reading
One of the most depressing things about President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back elements of the Cuba opening is how predictable it was. A Republican candidate for president makes last-minute campaign promises to a hard-line Cuban American audience in South Florida. Senator … | Continue reading
France’s national railway operator aims to have autonomous high-speed TGV trains running by 2023, according to a report from FranceInfo. The train operator, known by the French acronym SNCF, will begin testing a prototype of its so-called “drone train” in 2019, FranceInfo reports … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — French President Emmanuel Macron laid out his vision for a digital future on Thursday, saying he wants France to undergo a revolution so that it becomes a country that “thinks and moves like a startup”. Speaking at the Viva Technology conference in Paris, Macron repea … | Continue reading
Maynards Bassetts opened its Sweet Art Gallery today (16 June) and Event spoke to Katie Bashford, senior brand manager, about the activation. | Continue reading
XBT Provider, a Swedish bitcoin investment company, has announced a new partnership with cryptocurrency storage startup Xapo.Source | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the business of podcasting specifically and advertising generally, and why Apple’s recent changes will have less of an effect than people think. Presented by MailChimp Links Ben Thompson: Pocasts, Analytics, and Centralization — Stratechery Episode 082: A Po … | Continue reading
A few years back the European Union enacted a law that entitled netizens to the ‘right to be forgotten,’ obligating Google to act on user requests to remove “outdated” and “irrelevant” links in searches for their names. But despite wiping off over 760,000 links from the web, Germ … | Continue reading
The latest Google Maps beta adds notification channel support for Android O and shows hints of the ability to download entire country maps. | Continue reading
Evan Stanford muss den Herzallerliebstpreis für seine materialgedruckte Mini-Lasershow verliehen bekommen.Auf Thingiverse erklärt er, wie es geht (und legt seine Dateien offen) und auf YouTube zeigt er, wie es geht. | Continue reading
Ten years as Apple’s CEO left John Sculley with an insatiable appetite for tackling big problems. Now, the septuagenarian tech icon is the head of RXAdvance, which he describes as “the most exciting company I’ve worked at since Apple.” Its goal is to reform the broken American he … | Continue reading
This California coastal home is all about addressing the conditions we face now by incorporating sustainable materials, energy efficiencies. | Continue reading