Many millennials believe if you can’t share your experience on social media, then it never happened. Enter media company Refinery 29’s 29Rooms, an interactive exhibition of art installations that allows nonprofits, artists and companies to get in front of the Instagram and Snapchat-minded generation. “People are craving in-person experiences more than ever before, and experiential […]
Read moreSeattle Seahawks star quarterback Russell Wilson is wearing a new helmet this year. So is Alex Smith from the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston Texans linebacker Jadeveon Clowney. They’re all strapping on equipment from a Seattle-based startup called Vicis that wants to help the NFL and NCAA tackle football’s ongoing concussion problem. The company’s Zero1 […]
Read moreApple looks set to introduce a special “iPhone X” on Tuesday, to mark 10 years of the handset. We’ve seen a number of leaks about the hardware and its features, but everyone has been calling it the iPhone 8 so far. It looks like Apple is about to launch its top-tier phone as the iPhone […]
Read moreChina is joining France and Britain in announcing plans to end sales of gasoline and diesel cars. China’s industry ministry is developing a timetable to end production and sale of traditional fuel cars and will promote development of electric technology, state media on Sunday cited a Cabinet official as saying. The reports gave no possible […]
Read moreFor many people, making personal finance decisions is necessary and a major source of stress. Helping alleviate that confusion is what compelled Ramya Joseph to leave her position as vice president of proprietary trading at Goldman Sachs, and found the financial technology company Pefin in 2011. As competition and technology reshape the sector, “we’re being […]
Read moreAmazon has set off a scrum among cities that are hoping to land the company’s second headquarters — with the winner getting the prize of a $5 billion investment and 50,000 new jobs over the next two decades. We’re offering to help, using Amazon’s own criteria to identify a winning city. The company announced this […]
Read moreHurricane Irma will create combined insured losses of between $20 billion and $65 billion, according to a projection from risk modeling software company AIR Worldwide. The company includes in its estimate both the United States and selected islands in the Caribbean. For the U.S. alone, insured losses are expected to reach between $15 billion to […]
Read moreWhen Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan wrote a letter to their newborn daughter last month, they called themselves “optimists.” It’s a popular concept in Silicon Valley, where founders view themselves as improving the world through innovative disruption. And, according to a study from Stanford University, it’s a philosophy rooted in 19th-century […]
Read moreFashion Week kicked off on Thursday with the industry descending on New York City. The tradition of designers showing off their collections actually goes back to the 1940s. In today’s fast paced digital world, however, some are wondering if the tradition is still relevant. Fashion week “used to be open to a very small closed […]
Read moreTechnology is bringing video game enthusiasts experiences so immersive and lifelike, it’s hard to imagine how it could be enhanced any further. Perhaps for that reason, gamers are craving a bit of nostalgia. The proliferation of retro gaming has seen a boom in classics like “Space Invaders,” “Centipede” and “Frogger” — all of which are […]
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