Remember Pandora, the music app you used to love until you studied abroad and could only listen to Spotify, and it made you realize that Spotify was far superior, so you never listened to Pandora again? No? Just me? Anyway, on September 24, Pandora was bought for $3.5 billion by SiriusXM, another music service you […]
If there’s one thing we’ve learned this year, it’s the importance of being careful with who gets your data. We already know that Cambridge Analytics violated the privacy of millions of Facebook users and that Google tracks your movements even when you tell it not to. Who could’ve predicted that a security firm would sneakily […]
Can you imagine a time where traditional carnivals have become a thing of the past? Brent Bushnell and Eric Gradman can. Bushnell and Gradman are, respectively, the chief executive officer and the chief technology officer of Two Bit Circus, a new venture that wants to reinvent the carnival and perhaps social interaction as a whole. […]
Apple has joined the effort to educate and encourage voters ahead of the most highly-anticipated midterm elections in recent memory. In a press release posted on Monday, Apple called their new initiative “an easy way to follow the elections, with reporting from trusted sources curated by Apple News editors.” This endeavor is the latest in […]
It seems like you can’t look at tech news without seeing five new articles about Facebook. From scandals to new platform features, it’s nigh impossible to escape new developments about Mark Zuckerberg’s empire. So let’s dive into the latest goings-on from that site we all love to hate with a condensed look at a few […]
If you lived through the 90’s, chances are you can vividly recall the Beanie Baby craze. It seemed as though everyone was collecting hundreds of different types of floppy plush creatures as they could with false optimism that one day they would be worth a fortune. Now, the blockchain company and self-described “innovation studio” Axiom […]