Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband
Facebook is buying CTRL-labs, a NY-based startup building an armband that translates movement and the wearer’s neural impulses into digital input signals, a company spokesperson tells...
Gotham’s Next Commissioner Gordon May Be Westworld’s Jeffrey Wright
Matt Reeves’ The Batman found its Caped Crusader several months ago, but now we’ve got another name potentially joining Robert Pattinson in the cast. You can’t...
Netflix Turns Negative
Counter to the standard tech ethos—move fast, break stuff, crowbar stodgy old industry players up by their comfortable roots—the fight to control Americans’ streaming-TV dollars has...
Engage:BDR raises $26.25M to fund its NetZero publisher payments
Engage:BDR announced today that it has raised $23.25 million in new funding. CEO Ted Dhanik told me that this includes both debt and equity funding, and will...
RomUniverse Aims to Crowdfund Legal ‘Piracy’ Battle With Nintendo
Two weeks ago, Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the game download portal RomUniverse. The website, which also allows users to download movies and books, stands accused...
Leaker Claims Alexa-Powered Earbuds Are Amazon’s Next Big Device
Amazon has a product launch scheduled for later this week on Wednesday, and alongside a bunch of updated Echo speakers, recent leaks claim Amazon’s next big...
Social radio startup Stationhead moves beyond live broadcasts
Stationhead, the mobile app that turns its users into streaming radio DJs, got a big upgrade today. Where Stationhead DJs were previously limited to broadcasting live,...
Arctic sea ice plunges to dismal levels
After a year of extreme melt, Arctic sea ice ended up dropping to its second-lowest level on record — a mark only surpassed by melting in...
What’s the right way to sponsor a YouTube influencer?
Julian Shapiro Contributor Share on Twitter Julian Shapiro is the founder of BellCurve.com, a growth marketing agency that trains you to become a marketing professional. He...
PlayStation 5’s energy-saving feature sounds great, but there are big questions
Just in time for the U.N. Climate Summit, Sony has some PlayStation news for the planet Earth: The PS5’s energy efficiency will see some exponential improvements....
