Why You Should Care About the Fairphone
Say what you will about modular smartphones—and there’s certainly plenty to say—they do have one very clear benefit over the phones folks most commonly carry around...
SpaceX Starhopper ‘hops’ to around 500 feet and flies for just under a minute in new test flight
SpaceX has completed a second low-altitude test flight of its “Starhopper” demonstration prototype, which is being used to test technologies that will be used to build...
Forget the VMAs. The BTS ARMY created their own award show on Twitter.
Monday marked the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards. And while we got Lil Nas X clowning us with his giant scroll speech and Lizzo being an...
Why ‘one app to rule them all’ is not the future of digital health
Chris Hogg Contributor Share on Twitter Chris Hogg is a digital health advocate interested in how new forms of health data are changing the relationship between...
Netflix’s ‘The Irishman’ is coming to theaters on Nov. 1
“The Irishman,” the much-anticipated Martin Scorsese film produced by Netflix, will get a theatrical release on November 1, starting in Los Angeles and New York. It...
Here’s How You Can Get Disney+ for $4 a Month
There are still two and a half months before Disney launches its new streaming service, but if you are ready to commit to the platform, and...
Before Cranes, Ancient Greeks May Have Used This Ingenious Lifting Machine to Move Heavy Stones
Cranes first appeared in ancient Greece over 2,500 years ago, but new research suggests a primitive lifting machine—a kind of forerunner to the crane—was in use...
Fall movie preview: What to watch if you just wanna have fun
Welcome to our 2019 Fall Movie Preview. All week long we’re covering the films you need to know about as we head into the final months...
Ready, Set, Raise — the Y Combinator for female founders — announces second cohort
About one-fourth of the startups in Y Combinator’s summer batch had a female founder. Not the most disappointing statistic if you consider this: Companies with at...
Airship acquires A/B testing company Apptimize
Airship announced today that it has acquired Apptimize, an A/B testing company whose customers include Glassdoor, HotelTonight and The Wall Street Journal. Formerly known as Urban Airship,...
