Netflix launches Rs 199 ($2.8) mobile-only monthly plan in India
Netflix has a new plan to win users in India: make its service incredibly cheap. The streaming giant today introduced a lower-priced mobile tier in the...
‘A Compelling Power’: When Mesmerism Came to America
Between 1836 and the late 1850s, mesmerizing another person—or seeing someone get mesmerized, or denouncing mesmerists as charlatans—became a way of stockpiling control for one’s own...
Indonesian startup Pomona raises $3 million to help brands increase engagement with cashback offers
Pomona, an Indonesian startup that creates omnichannel marketing and sales software for consumer brands, announced today it has raised a Series A-2 of $3 million led...
Geek Trivia: The 1970s Oil Crisis In The United States Introduced What Automotive-Related Change?
The 1970s Oil Crisis In The United States Introduced What Automotive-Related Change? Fins On Cars Right Turn On Red DIY Gas Refining 2 Cylinder Engines Think...
China plans e-cigarette regulation as industry booms
China is taking steps to regulate its blossoming vaping market as health concerns over electronic cigarettes increase in recent times. China’s National Health Commission has begun...
Report: FTC to Accuse Facebook of Using 2FA Numbers for Ads, Hiding Facial Recognition Settings
The Federal Trade Commission recently attracted scorn from congressional Democrats for fining world-spanning social network Facebook just $5 billion rather than tens of billions after the...
‘The Great Hack’: Netflix doc unpacks Cambridge Analytica, Trump, Brexit and democracy’s death
It’s perhaps not for nothing that The Great Hack – the new Netflix documentary about the connections between Cambridge Analytica, the US election and Brexit, out...
Snap Back?
Snap Inc. has been slowly righting its ship recently, stymying its nose-diving stocks prices and exodus of users. The Snapchat creator’s Q2 2019 earnings imply that...
Guy Who Built Twitter’s Retweet Button Admits Maybe That Was a Really Bad Idea
The man behind Twitter’s “Retweet” button—which is pretty much the foundation of the whole site—now thinks he screwed up big time, telling BuzzFeed News in an...
The softblocking meme blends literary references with cancel culture
Oof. Yikes. A new copypasta has everyone softblocking problematic villains from well known stories, all in the name of the meme. Urban Dictionary defines softblocking as...
