SoundCloud buys artist distribution platform Repost Network
The past year has seen Spotify embark on a series of acquisitions to beef up its service, particularly on podcast content. Now it is the turn...
Future Positive Capital outs $57M fund to back European startups tackling world’s ‘most pressing problems’
Future Positive Capital, an early-stage VC firm co-founded by ex-Index Ventures associate Sofia Hmich, breaks cover today. The new pan-European fund, which has a first close...
The New XPS 13 2-in-1 Comes Tantalizingly Close to Overshadowing the Original
When it comes to laptops, I’m a big advocate of 2-in-1s like Lenovo’s Yoga C930 and Microsoft’s Surface Go because their flexible designs let you use...
Alienware’s Big Redesign Comes to Its Thinnest Gaming Laptops
At CES Alienware announced a major redesign, featuring devices with soft-touch plastic, curved [curved what?], and an overall look that was meant to be less aggressive...
Geek Trivia: In The 1960s, RCA Invented A Record That Could Play?
In The 1960s, RCA Invented A Record That Could Play? With Perfect Fidelity 24 Hours of Audio Video Recordings Via Laser Beam Think you know the...
HP’s Revamped VR Backpack Delivers the Closest Thing to True VR Freedom Yet
Does a VR headset still qualify as a standalone device if the computer powering the headset is strapped to your back rather than built into the...
It Is Kind of Shocking Who Is Doing Some of the Most Interesting Stuff in Laptops Right Now
There are things I associate HP with: printers, hyper-expensive ink for printers that threatened to ruin me that one time in college, and inexpensive enterprise computers....
Alibaba reportedly mulling to raise $20B through a second listing in Hong Kong
Massive news just dropped for Hong Kong’s capital markets. Alibaba, one of the world’s largest tech companies, is considering raising $20 billion through a second listing...
Mark Zuckerberg to Ignore Canadian Parliament’s Subpoena, Maybe Get Found in Contempt
The hottest trend sweeping Washington right now has officially arrived in Silicon Valley: Defying lawmakers’ subpoenas is all the rage and Facebook apparently has no plans...
Camera Trap Snaps Photo of First Known Albino Giant Panda
Using a motion-activated camera, scientists at Wolong National Nature Reserve in southwest China have snapped a blurry but unprecedented photograph of the world’s first known albino...
