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Instagram's Newest Star Is ... a Tree?

Tentree's Instagram post about planting trees has gone viral. But as with any celebrity's carefully orchestrated photo, the reality is much more complicated.

3 hours ago

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Instagram's Newest Star Is ... a Tree?

Wired

Trump Evicts Tech Workers, Avengers Return, and More News

Catch up on the most important news today in 2 minutes or less.

4 hours ago

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Trump Evicts Tech Workers, Avengers Return, and More News

Wired

Beyoncé, Donald Glover, Adidas, Nike, and the Fight for Cool

Adidas' collaboration with Donald Glover is just its latest attempt to define culture. Also on deck? Beyoncé.

6 hours ago

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Beyoncé, Donald Glover, Adidas, Nike, and the Fight for Cool

Wired

Scientists Need to Talk More About Failure

The most radical talk at TED 2019 wasn't about a miracle cure or a moon shot. It was about a balloon that popped.

7 hours ago

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Scientists Need to Talk More About Failure

Wired

Rami Malek Is Your New Villain ... Bond Villain

Malek's next gig, the Avengers are coming for all the money, Captain America does VR, and more.

7 hours ago

Wired

Rami Malek Is Your New Villain ... Bond Villain

Wired

The Galaxy Fold's Breaking Display Won't Be Easy to Fix

The ambitious device gets an iFixit teardown, revealing what might turn out to be systematic problems.

8 hours ago

Wired

The Galaxy Fold's Breaking Display Won't Be Easy to Fix

Techcrunch

Wireless broadband startup Starry files to raise up to $125 million

The never-ending quest to kill Comcast is poised to receive some renewed investment as an ambitious startup readies to secure some new cash. Starry, a Boston-based wireless broadband internet startup, has filed to raise up to $125 million in Series D funding according to a Delaware stock authorization ...

1 hour ago

Techcrunch

Wireless broadband startup Starry files to raise up to $125 million

Techcrunch

Carbon, the fast-growing 3D printing business, is raising up to $300M

Carbon is issuing new shares at a valuation of $2.5 billion.

2 hours ago

Techcrunch

Carbon, the fast-growing 3D printing business, is raising up to $300M

Techcrunch

Amazon beats optimistic profit expectations for Q1

Amazon announced today that it has beat Wall Street's already optimistic Q1 projections. The e-commerce giant's revenues have slowed a bit, contributing to moderate fluctuations in after-hours trading, but the company greatly benefits by ever-increasing profit margins. Net income for the quarter hit ...

2 hours ago

Techcrunch

Amazon beats optimistic profit expectations for Q1

Techcrunch

Movie subscription service Sinemia is ending US operations

Over the past few months, Sinemia has gone from promising MoviePass competitor to the source of frustration for moviegoers across the country. After rumors surfaced earlier this week that it would be backing away from its troubled subscription-based movie ticket offering, it posted official word tonight ...

3 hours ago

Techcrunch

Movie subscription service Sinemia is ending US operations

Techcrunch

Uber will reportedly seek up to $90 billion valuation in IPO

Uber is reportedly looking to sell shares between $44 to $50, aiming to raise $8 to $10 billion in the offering. This would value the company between $80 billion to $90 billion, Bloomberg reports. Previous reports had pegged Uber's valuation at around $120 billion. Still, that valuation is higher than ...

3 hours ago

Techcrunch

Uber will reportedly seek up to $90 billion valuation in IPO

Techcrunch

Facebook hit with three privacy investigations in a single day

Third time lucky " unless you’re Facebook . The social networking giant was hit Thursday by a trio of investigations over its privacy practices following a particularly tumultuous month of security lapses and privacy violations " the latest in a string of embarrassing and damaging breaches at the ...

4 hours ago

Techcrunch

Facebook hit with three privacy investigations in a single day

Readwrite

Why Your eCommerce Business Should Have a Pop-Up Shop

Ecommerce is booming, and there's no doubt about that. The numbers speak for themselves. After all, in 2017, ecommerce sales reached $2.3 trillion, and it's expected to grow. However, while the foundation of your business is online, it's important to start considering other sales channels. Pop-up shops ...

8 hours ago

Readwrite

Why Your eCommerce Business Should Have a Pop-Up Shop

Readwrite

How Women Are Changing Our Worldview, One Ad at a Time

Stereotypes in advertising are bad for business. As brands ignore women's perspectives, women fight to make their voices " and consumers' " heard. The post How Women Are Changing Our Worldview, One Ad at a Time appeared first on ReadWrite.

11 hours ago

Readwrite

How Women Are Changing Our Worldview, One Ad at a Time

Readwrite

Evolving from Decentralization to Centralization – Back to a Decentralized Future

Believe it or not, decentralization is nothing new. It first began with the social organization of ancient human societies. They lived together in small Neolithic decentralized communities of less than 100 people where everyone was accountable for one another. Small populations directly made management ...

11 hours ago

Readwrite

Evolving from Decentralization to Centralization – Back to a Decentralized Future

Readwrite

How to Enhance Customer Service Through AI

There is no exaggeration in saying that the contemporary era is of automation. People just love automation. Booking movie tickets, or ordering pizza, commaning voice assistants for any task, travel assistance — all of it — we love automation. Automation reduces human efforts but it also ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

How to Enhance Customer Service Through AI

Readwrite

These 5 Tech Startups Prove Household Innovation Is Accelerating

Tech's progress may have "slowed" in the past 50 years, but just about the only thing today's tech can't do is predict what home life will be like in 2050. The post These 5 Tech Startups Prove Household Innovation Is Accelerating appeared first on ReadWrite.

1 day ago

Readwrite

These 5 Tech Startups Prove Household Innovation Is Accelerating

Readwrite

Make Room, Software – Mobile Content is Eating the World

It may seem obvious that mobile-driven content is becoming the primary mainstream preference of content consumption, but the pace and implications of such a shift are often overlooked. Despite the absurd amount of time Generation Z spends on their phones or how the youth is redefining content consumption ...

1 day ago

Readwrite

Make Room, Software – Mobile Content is Eating the World

Fast Company

A deleted Wikipedia page speaks volumes about its biggest problem

You’ve probably never heard of Clarice Phelps. If you were curious, you might enter her name into Google. And, if you had done so anytime between September of last year and February of this year, you would likely have found her Wikipedia entry. The nuclear scientist is thought to be the first ...

7 hours ago

Fast Company

A deleted Wikipedia page speaks volumes about its biggest problem

Fast Company

Amazon will spend $800M to bring free 1-day shipping to Prime

Get ready for Amazon Prime 1-day shipping. At the company’s quarterly earnings call, CFO Brian Olsavsky disclosed that Amazon is working shorten its promised 2-day shipping on Amazon Prime to 1-day. “Our goal is to evolve the two-day free shipping program to a one-day free shipping program,” ...

8 hours ago

Fast Company

Amazon will spend $800M to bring free 1-day shipping to Prime

Fast Company

Amazon stock jumps on earnings beat, but its ad business lagged

Amazon just keeps on being Amazon. Over the last few years, the company has been on a roll in terms of scale–and this past quarter it certainly grew. Still, we may finally be seeing signs of growth fatigue. In its latest earnings report, the company disclosed that quarterly sales hit $59.7 billion, ...

9 hours ago

Fast Company

Amazon stock jumps on earnings beat, but its ad business lagged

Fast Company

Work at one of these 5 companies if you want better work-life balance

The struggle is real, people. No matter what their age, gender, and role, the majority (70%) of workers reported that they feel overwhelmed by their workload and are struggling to maintain a work-life balance, according to a LinkedIn Learning survey of more than 2,800 professionals. What’s a stressed-out ...

9 hours ago

Fast Company

Work at one of these 5 companies if you want better work-life balance

Fast Company

Even Philip Morris is pivoting to the blockchain

A year ago, pivoting to the blockchain was all the rage. If you were a company in dire straits, all you had to do was gin up a press release explaining that you were investing in bitcoin’s underlying technology and then–voila–you had a new business model. Camera companies did it, ...

11 hours ago

Fast Company

Even Philip Morris is pivoting to the blockchain

Fast Company

Norwegian Air may not be profitable this year, thanks to Boeing 737 Max 8 grounding

Norwegian Air has solid bookings, high demand, decreased costs, and increasing revenue. Despite those promising figures, the budget airline probably won’t make any money this year due to one thing: the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max 8. In an earnings release today, the airline’s CEO, Bjørn ...

12 hours ago

Fast Company

Norwegian Air may not be profitable this year, thanks to Boeing 737 Max 8 grounding

Engadget

Sinemia's theater subscription shuts down in the US

As MoviePass stumbled, Sinemia presented itself as an all-you-can-eat moviegoing alternative. Now, after quickly rushing through a series of plan changes and account terminations, the service has announced it's shutting down. A note on the front page...

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Engadget

Sinemia's theater subscription shuts down in the US

Engadget

The CIA is now on Instagram

The CIA launched its Instagram account on Thursday afternoon; in a bid for transparency that will probably only reveal how thirsty it is for likes. Sure enough, America's top spy agency's debut post on Instagram is an obviously staged shot of a fake...

2 hours ago

Engadget

The CIA is now on Instagram

Engadget

Amazon Prime shipping could shrink to just one-day

One of the perks of Amazon's Prime membership is free two-day shipping on Prime-eligible purchases. That, however, might change. In a call to investors following Amazon's first quarterly earnings report today, CFO Brian Olsavsky said that the company...

3 hours ago

Engadget

Amazon Prime shipping could shrink to just one-day

Engadget

Windows 10's May update won't work on PCs with USB storage or SD cards

Microsoft notified its users that the May Windows 10 update won't install on PCs using USB storage or SD cards. The company says it's blocking the installation on those PCs because "inappropriate drive reassignment" might occur and could impact both...

3 hours ago

Engadget

Windows 10's May update won't work on PCs with USB storage or SD cards

Engadget

Apple fixes 'terms and conditions' iOS bug that blocked app downloads

If you're one of the people who has been unable to install new apps or download updates from Apple's iOS App Store, don't worry. A fix is on the way. Apple has issued a server-side fix to address a bug that has prevented people from completing downlo...

4 hours ago

Engadget

Apple fixes 'terms and conditions' iOS bug that blocked app downloads

Engadget

New York AG is investigating Facebook over email contact scraping

The New York attorney general's office will investigate Facebook's "unauthorized collection of 1.5M of their users' email contact databases." Earlier this month, it emerged the company had been scraping the contact lists of some users who joined the...

4 hours ago

Engadget

New York AG is investigating Facebook over email contact scraping

Venturebeat

Respawn pledges transparency for Apex Legends, teases Season 2 updates

Respawn hasn't had the smoothest time keeping fans in the loop about future Apex Legends content. But it's hoping to change that moving forward.

3 hours ago

Venturebeat

Respawn pledges transparency for Apex Legends, teases Season 2 updates

Venturebeat

Intel CEO: Headwinds in China's PC market are making everyone more cautious

Intel CEO Bob Swan said in an earnings conference call that the company lowered its revenue expectations due to "headwinds" among customers in China.

4 hours ago

Venturebeat

Intel CEO: Headwinds in China's PC market are making everyone more cautious

Venturebeat

Epic Games is giving away 500 Magic Leap One AR devices to developers

The giveaway for the AR glasses is in addition to the $100 million the company pledged to give out to developers. You can apply for both online.

5 hours ago

Venturebeat

Epic Games is giving away 500 Magic Leap One AR devices to developers

Venturebeat

Intel's wave of high-performance chips pushes it to bigger Q1 earnings

Intel slightly beat expectations for the fiscal first quarter ended March 31, with 10-nanometer parts ramping up and PC sales driving the way.

6 hours ago

Venturebeat

Intel's wave of high-performance chips pushes it to bigger Q1 earnings

Venturebeat

Amazon reports $59.7 billion in Q1 2019 revenue: AWS up 41%, subscriptions up 40%, and "other" up 34%

Amazon today reported fiscal Q1 2019 earnings, including revenue of $59.7 billion, net income of $3.6 billion, and earnings per share of $7.09.

6 hours ago

Venturebeat

Amazon reports $59.7 billion in Q1 2019 revenue: AWS up 41%, subscriptions up 40%, and "other" up 34%

Venturebeat

CEO Tim Sweeney: Epic Games Store will "hastily" retreat from exclusives if Valve changes revenue model

The store's exclusives have rubbed some folks the wrong way. But Tim Sweeney says they'd back off if Valve matches its 88/12 revenue sharing model.

7 hours ago

Venturebeat

CEO Tim Sweeney: Epic Games Store will "hastily" retreat from exclusives if Valve changes revenue model

Ars Technica

Samsung puts the screws to iFixit, makes it remove the Galaxy Fold teardown

After embarrassing itself with the Galaxy Fold, Samsung goes after iFixit.

23 minutes ago

Ars Technica

Samsung puts the screws to iFixit, makes it remove the Galaxy Fold teardown

Ars Technica

Amazon plans to make Prime shipping one-day by default

Still building up support for more products, ZIP codes before nationwide rollout.

3 hours ago

Ars Technica

Amazon plans to make Prime shipping one-day by default

Ars Technica

Wireless carriers fight ban on throttling firefighters during emergencies

Committee passes Calif. bill spurred by Verizon throttling despite CTIA objection.

7 hours ago

Ars Technica

Wireless carriers fight ban on throttling firefighters during emergencies

Ars Technica

Russia launches sub that will carry doomsday nuke drone torpedo

Giant sub 27 years in the making, Belogrod is the mother of all "special project" boats.

7 hours ago

Ars Technica

Russia launches sub that will carry doomsday nuke drone torpedo

Ars Technica

Daimler North America CEO says future "does not include plug-in hybrids"

Daimler says it will have 50 all-electric test trucks on roads by end of 2019.

7 hours ago

Ars Technica

Daimler North America CEO says future "does not include plug-in hybrids"

Ars Technica

Password1, Password2, Password3 no more: Microsoft drops password expiration rec

For years, Microsoft's baseline security policy has expired passwords after 60 days.

8 hours ago

Ars Technica

Password1, Password2, Password3 no more: Microsoft drops password expiration rec