Recovering Iris Murdoch
Over at The New York Times, Dwight Garner remembers the novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch on the centennial of her birth. With many of her books...
Roaches Are Getting Harder and Harder to Kill
The cockroaches that plague our homes are even more indestructible than we thought, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Purdue in...
Charter Profited From Ignoring Piracy, Music Companies Tell Court
In March several major music companies sued Charter Communications, one of the largest Internet providers in the US with 22 million subscribers. Helped by the RIAA,...
Bird investor Upfront Ventures eyes $250M growth fund
Upfront Ventures, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, has filed paperwork with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to raise its third growth-stage investment fund. Though...
Appeals court rules Amazon can be held liable for third-party products
In a blow to Amazon, a U.S. appeals court ruled that the mega-retailer can be held accountable for faulty third-party sales. The ruling arrived this week...
How to Get a Vitamix-Quality Blender for a Lot Less Money
If you’re a smoothie enthusiast or just a fan of quality kitchen gear, you know that the Vitamix is a revered blender brand. You see Vitamixes...
Use These Sweet Instagram Captions for All of Your Lucky Ladybug Photos
If you ever have the good fortune to have a ladybug land on you, don’t forget to take a photo and pay that luck forward. Instagram...
We still don’t know how much of Libra Facebook owns
The $10 million entry fee to join the Facebook-developed cryptocurrency’s Libra Association is merely a minimum. Members who’ll verify transactions can opt to invest more in...
GPS on the Moon? NASA’s working on it
If you’re driving your car from Portland to Merced, you probably rely on GPS to see where you are. But what if you’re driving your Moon...
Pax Labs CEO Bharat Vasan and serial founder Keith McCarty are coming to Disrupt SF
The legalization of cannabis and hemp for medicinal and recreational use in states across the U.S. and in Canada has opened up a huge vein of...
