Nike debuts its most ambitious SNKRS stash drop for the Championship Tour featuring Kendrick Lamar and SZA

On a mild Thursday night at the Los Angeles Forum, Nike’s public relations team and a group of journalists from some of the country’s leading lifestyle, tech, and general interest websites gathered to see the debut of Nike’s most ambitious SNKRS stash drop. Launched in conjunction with Kendrick Lamar’s Top Dawg Entertainment, the collaboration between […]

Looking for a better exit? Get out of the game early

Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor In Canada’s cloud services market, venture investment opportunities abound What did VCs study in college? VC investing is a game of putting money into a company and hopefully getting more out. In an ideal world, the […]

SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has roughly 300 launches before retirement

Now that SpaceX's final Falcon 9 design has launched for the first time, there's a looming question: how many more launches does the vehicle have left? Elon Musk has an idea. He estimated that SpaceX will build 30 to 40 more Falcon 9 cores for "~30...

Tidal will debut an unreleased Prince album in 2019

Tidal and Prince's estate are done battling it out in court, ending things in good terms and with a new album, to boot. Jay-Z's streaming service has announced that it's debuting a new Prince album with previously unreleased songs in 2019. It will st...

The UK and USA need to extend their “special relationship” to technology development

Matt Hancock Contributor Share on Twitter Matt Hancock is the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and a Member of Parliament for West Suffolk. The UK and the USA have always had an enduring bond, with diplomatic, cultural and economic ties that have remained firm for centuries. We live in an era of profound […]

How to avoid getting crushed by the big 5 in the struggle for attention

People don’t usually brag about how poor they are, except when it comes to being ‘time-poor.’ It’s a badge of honor now to say how busy you are. As writer Tim Kreider has observed: “It is, pretty obviously, a boast disguised as a complaint.” The startling truth though is that we have more time than in the past. American men now work on average 12 hours less per week than 45 years or so ago. Labor-saving devices like dishwashers and microwaves mean that we spend less time toiling on house chores than we used to. But one reason that we…

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Subscriptions for the 1%

We are in a subscription hell. Paywalls are going up across the internet, at aggregated prices few but Jeff Bezos can afford. The software I used to pay for once now requires an annual tax, because … “updates.” We are getting less every day, and paying more for it, all the while the core openness […]

President Trump says he’s working to give ZTE a reprieve

In a remarkable development, President Trump has thrown an olive branch to controversial Chinese telecom firm ZTE . The company, which sells telcom network equipment and consumer devices including smartphones, said on Wednesday that it would cease its main business operations after the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a seven-year export restriction for the company, resulting in […]

The crypto alternative

Suppose, just for a moment, just for argument’s sake, that (some) cryptocurrencies are not a giant scam, and what’s more, they’re not just another kind of financial asset. Come on. Don’t look at me like that. Work with me here. Imagine, just for a moment, that there exist plausible futures in which they matter. An […]

US and Chinese presidents work to get ZTE 'back into business'

ZTE's future is currently grim in light of the revived US export ban, but is it guaranteed to wither and die? Not necessarily. President Trump has tweeted that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping are "working together" to give ZTE a "way to get bac...

The best portable carpet and upholstery cleaner

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After math: Well, that's one way to do it

It was a big week for interesting calls. Facebook is reportedly looking to hop on the cryptocurrency bandwagon, AT&T admitted that it hired Michael Cohen's firm for "insights" into the administration, and somehow enough folks watched the YouTube...

UK adults may soon have to buy “porn passes” from corner shops to prove their age online

Later this year, new UK legislation will require visitors to adult websites to prove that they’re over the legal age of 18. The logistics of how this will work, however, are proving trickier than thought. It’s likely most porn sites will verify user ages through credit cards. After all, in the UK at least, you need to be over the age of 18 in order to access any kind of credit. The problem is, around 40-percent of Brits don’t hold a credit card. And that says nothing about the 1.6 million working adults who are “unbanked” — meaning they lack access…

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Learn Excel and get Microsoft-approved certification — and the training is less than $10

While every mistake you make in an Excel doc may not be a $100 million error, you still better know your stuff while working with these vital documents. You can get the hardcore Excel training you need with this Essential Microsoft Excel Specialist bundle, a nearly $2,000 value available now at the rock-bottom price of just $9.99 from TNW Deals.

Ben Heck's glue gun and mini pinball game: Which one gets the axe?

As the team comes to the end of its long-term builds, it's time to make a tough decision: What should they axe? Which product can more easily be taken into production? Join Ben, Felix and James Ray from AVID as the group discusses the viability...

Thinking of investing in an ICO? Read this first

There are so many ICOs and token sales these days, which makes it hard to cut through the clutter. How do you know which projects are likely to become viable businesses and which projects will leave you with empty promises? When participating in ICOs there are best practices you can follow to reduce the risk of contributing to a project that’s destined to fail, or worse… walk away with your funds. Always follow the overarching rule of “never risk more than you can afford to lose!” That being said following these five steps could make or break your success when…

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Spotify is expanding in the Middle East, with its UAE launch this year

Spotify, the world’s leading music streaming service is expanding to MENA with its UAE launch planned for Q4 this year, a source close to the development told MENAbytes. The Swedish company that recently went public on the New York Stock Exchange in a direct listing, which is different from the traditional initial public offering. Our source has told us the company has already leased an office space in Dubai. Spotify’s recent filing with SEC (when it went public) confirms this. The source has also told us that the company is currently looking to fill at least four positions to build its regional…

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Scientists shouldn’t reanimate decapitated human heads

Do you want to live forever? If so, there’s some good news. Or so it seems. For it appears that we may have taken a step closer to making immortality reality. In a recent meeting at the National Institutes of Health, Yale neuroscientist Nenad Sestan revealed that his team has successfully reanimated the brains of dead pigs recovered from a slaughterhouse. By pumping them with artificial blood using a system called BrainEx, they were able to bring them back to “life” for up to 36 hours. Admittedly, the pigs’ brains did not regain consciousness, but Sestan acknowledged that restoring awareness…

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