‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier’ didn’t do right by Isaiah Bradley
Welcome to Fix It, our ongoing series examining projects we love — save for one tiny change we wish we could make. With just two complete...
UK fashion portal Lyst raises $85M in a ‘pre-IPO’ round, reportedly at a $500M valuation
E-commerce continues to be a huge focus for investors watching consumer behavior and spending patterns in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. In the latest development,...
VPN.ht Asks Court to Dismiss Piracy Lawsuit Over Lack of Jurisdiction
A group of movie production outfits, including affiliates of the film studios Millennium Media and Voltage Pictures, filed a lawsuit against VPN.ht in March. The companies...
Swarmia raises $8M Seed to help software development teams deal with data
Swarmia, a B2B SaaS company for software development teams dealing with data, has raised a €5.7 M Seed round and a previously unannounced 1M€ pre-seed round,...
A pack of 9 CryptoPunk NFTs sold for $17 million at auction
The NFT fever is still raging. Nine CryptoPunks, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) residing on the Ethereum network, have been sold at an auction at Christie’s for $16,962,500....
Quix raises $3.2M from Project A and others for its ‘Stream centric’ approach to data
Quix, a platform for Python developers working on streaming data, has secured a £2.3 Million ($3.2M)Seed funding round led by Project A Ventures in Germany, with...
The Realme 5G Is a Refreshingly Simple and Cheap 5G Phone
It’s not very flashy, and it doesn’t have a huge tagline emblazoned on its back like its more expensive sibling, but the Realme 8 5G is...
Women in Tech: “Diversity is always an asset”
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech companies...
Castlevania’s Final Season Gets There, in the End
There’s a moment roughly halfway through Castlevania’s final season when, at the height of an arduous, suitably bloody, and rather fantastic fight sequence, one character yells...
Vinted raises $303M for its 2nd-hand clothes marketplace, used by 45M and now valued at $4.5B
The circular economy — where consumers themselves are both the suppliers and buyers of goods and services — has come into its own in the last...
