I’m a terrible cook. I’m the type of guy who struggles to make scrambled eggs properly. I burn toast. While Amazon lets you order all sorts of groceries, it doesn’t yet have an on-demand restaurant delivery service like UberEats, GrubHub or DoorDash. When I got home after a long day of work, I almost always […]
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Big brands like Toys R Us and Bon-Ton liquidating their businesses might paint a gloomy picture for the retail industry, but smaller brands say there couldn’t be a better time to grow. Direct-to-consumer businesses like Bonobos and Warby Parker have paved the way from online stores to brick-and-mortar ones. Others are following — in droves […]
Read moreEzequiel Pereira was about a month shy of 17 when he first got paid for exposing a Google security flaw through its bug bounty program. Pereira got his first computer when he was 10, took an initial programming class when he was 11 and then spent years teaching himself different coding languages and techniques. In […]
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Hard rock fans, get ready to empty your wallets. On June 29, Guns N’ Roses will commemorate the 30th anniversary edition of the group’s landmark album, “Appetite for Destruction” – and it will cost a whopping $999. In 1988, the original album topped the Billboard charts, buoyed by hit singles like “Sweet Child O’ Mine” […]
Read moreA start-up called Volans-i is building drones that can deliver heavy parts over long distances, even to a ship that’s sailing at sea. This kind of technology could have saved the Titanic, CEO and co-founder Hannan Parvizian quipped. The company shared footage of a recent test flight over Lake Pleasant in Arizona with CNBC where […]
Read moreSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in held a surprise meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday to ensure a summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump goes off successfully, South Korean officials said. It was the clearest sign yet that the on-again off-again summit between Trump and Kim is likely to be […]
Read moreIreland is set to liberalize some of the world’s most restrictive abortion laws after exit polls suggested a landslide vote for change in what was until recently one of Europe’s most socially conservative countries. As the vote count began on Saturday morning, the official LoveBoth campaign against liberalization conceded that the polls painted “a bleak […]
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Richard Branson, the 67-year-old British entrepreneur, says he’s in a closely-fought race with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to get the first fare-paying passengers into space. Speaking to the BBC’s “You and Yours” radio show, he said that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is doing “fantastically well” with rocket development and space transport for cargo. But, he […]
Read moreSouth Korea on Saturday expressed cautious relief about the revived talks for a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un following a whirlwind 24 hours that saw Trump canceling the highly-anticipated meeting before saying it’s potentially back on. The statement by Seoul’s presidential office came hours after Trump welcomed North […]
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