Impressive Catalog Of All The Books Christopher Columbus’s Son Owned! Critical Linking, April 22, 2019
Sponsored by Down & Dirty by Rhenna Morgan. Available now! The 16th century was a thrilling time for books, at least for those who could afford...
Is Anybody Out There? One Writer on the Purgatory of Submission
There’s something that people do, but not everyone does it. It involves a hamburger, a shelf, and a lot of time. It goes like this: buy...
Confirmed: Pax Labs raises $420 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion
Pax Labs, the popular vape maker, has today confirmed the close of a $420 million equity round, including from existing investors Tiger Global Management and Tao...
Huawei says it shipped 59M smartphones in Q1 as revenue jumped 39% to $27B
Fresh from an $8.8 billion profit last year, much-maligned Chinese tech giant Huawei is touting yet more growth. The firm said today that revenue in the...
VPN Users Could Be Depriving Pirate Sites of Ad Revenue
For more than a decade, copyright holders around the world have pushed Internet service providers to block ‘pirate’ sites. While users in the United States are...
Sony launches a taxi-hailing app to rival Uber in Tokyo
Sony last year announced it would enter Japan’s taxi-hailing space and, good to its word, the electronics giant has kicked off its S.Ride service in Tokyo....
Geek Trivia: Which Star Trek Actor Is Responsible For Inventing The Klingon Language?
Which Star Trek Actor Is Responsible For Inventing The Klingon Language? James Doohan William Shatner Michael Dorn Leonard Nimoy Think you know the answer? Source :...
Resurgent HappyFresh raises $20M for its online grocery service in Southeast Asia
It’s been a tricky past few years for HappyFresh, the startup seeking to bring Instacart-like grocery deliveries to Southeast Asia. It’s been through a series of...
China’s new gaming rules to ban poker, blood and imperial schemes
Lots of news has surfaced from China’s gaming industry in recent weeks as the government hastens to approve a massive backlog of titles in the world’s...
Thanos, CBD, and Disembodied Pig Brains: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
An awful lot happened this week—some of it good, much of it bad, and a bit of it just plain weird. In the good news category,...
