Edmund de Waal’s Venetian Tableaux
In his book The White Road (2015), Edmund De Waal recounted his love affair with porcelain and the long, fascinating history of the material’s travels and...
How to choose the right Java library
Anyone with any amount of experience in the Java ecosystem — even just a little — knows it has a wealth of support features. There are...
Geek Trivia: Which Super Hero Movie Went Into Production Without A Full Script?
Which Super Hero Movie Went Into Production Without A Full Script? The Amazing Spider-Man X-Men: The Last Stand Man of Steel Iron Man Think you know...
Fairjungle is a modern take on corporate travel management
French startup Fairjungle wants to make it easier to book a flight or a hotel room for corporate purposes. The company just raised a $2 million...
Sprint is the latest telecom to offer a tracking device that uses LTE
Following in the footsteps of AT&T and Verizon*, Sprint is now offering an LTE tracker. The matchbook-sized device, simply called Tracker, provides real-time location tracking on...
GuestReady raises $6M to help hosts on Airbnb and other services manage their property
GuestReady, a three-year-old service that lets shared-economy hosts manage their business on Airbnb and other rental sites, has announced a $6 million Series A round. The...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Takes Stunning Photo of Asteroid Bennu From Just 0.4 Miles Away
NASA’s asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, which is currently in position around the tiny, near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, has transmitted its closest shot of the asteroid’s surface yet....
Report: Hospitals and Patients Are Being Plagued by Robocalls
We’re already living in a national robocall nightmare, but at least most of the time, for most of us, dealing with phone spam is not a...
4 Things We Loved, and 3 We Didn’t Like So Much About Jessica Jones Season 3
Every so often, you come across a season of a television show that’s so generally strong that even the things you don’t particularly like about it...
Apple TV is getting a Picture-in-Picture mode so you can watch two shows at once
Apple TV is getting a Picture-in-Picture mode that will allow users to stream two shows at the same time, TechCrunch has confirmed. The feature’s forthcoming launch...
