Many of our favorite outdoor retailers find themselves in a pretty pickle on Black Friday. There’s no activity that’s less outdoorsy than cruising retail sites shopping for gear, but you still need rain jackets, a good layering system, and running gear to make it through the winter. If you’d... Read more

Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.  Unity today released two new reports on gaming — one on multiplayer and one on post-launch... Read more

On Tuesday afternoon, Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, made a supposedly exciting announcement: a glove. But not just any glove. It’s a haptic glove lined with tiny motors that use bursts of air to mimic the sense of touch, and it looks like a wearable nightmare. There’s... Read more

Enlarge / Take one daily to keep Evil Hackerman away! Securing your digital life View more stories Information security and privacy suffer from the same phenomenon we see in fighting COVID-19: “I’ve done my own research” syndrome. Many security and privacy practices are things learned second- or third-hand, based... Read more

“Hi, if you have any questions, I am here to help.” “Hi, let’s chat; we are here to help.” “Hi, we are live and ready to chat with you.” “Ask something to start a live chat.” Have you received such messages from pop-up-based screens or when you visit any... Read more

Convertibles should absolutely be more popular than they are. Why? They’re excellent cars. I stand by it. I haven’t owned a car with traditional roof in a long time, and I don’t plan on changing that. My Mazda Miata continues to surprise me with how much it offers in... Read more

Toward the end of the third episode of Tiger King 2—Netflix’s follow-up to March 2020’s explosive docuseries about the wild lives of big cat collectors and conservationists—a “psychic detective” gets emotional about an empty chicken container lying near a Porta Potty. The psychic, hired by the daughters of missing... Read more

Cymbio, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup providing a marketplace automation platform, today announced that it raised $20 million in series B financing led by Corner Ventures with participation from Udi Angel, Vertex Ventures, and Yuval Tal and other individual angel investors. The round brings the company’s total raised to... Read more

DeFi, GameFi, and many other Fi’s are available, and MachineFi is the elephant-linchpin in the room. What if your profit center and economic driver could be machines? I see a paradigm shift in the crypto and blockchain space. But take a minute to watch the goals of DeFi come... Read more

Consider this thought experiment. What would the climate change debate look like if nuclear power was invented tomorrow? Imagine if humanity had only used fossil fuels and renewables up to this point, and an engineering visionary revealed that split atoms could be used to generate clean power. That’s the... Read more