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Bonsai Brands
The energy in the DTC sector is undeniable. In just about every vertical we see new businesses taking advantage of the evaporation of friction in launching an ecommerce brand. With the democratisation of tools like Shopify and Instagram Ads anyone can launch a DTC business.
1 in 5 Employees Is Highly Engaged and at Risk of Burnout
Dorothea loved her new workplace and was highly motivated to perform. Her managers were delighted with her high engagement, professionalism, and dedication.
BFR | Earth to Earth
The BFR will be capable of taking people from any city to any other city on Earth in under one hour.
Genius Catches Google Copying Song Lyrics
“Over the last two years, we’ve shown Google irrefutable evidence again and again that they are displaying lyrics copied from Genius,” said Ben Gross, Genius’s chief strategy officer, in an email message.
America’s Job Listings Have Gone Off the Deep End
Are you a code sensei? A customer-service rock star? Do you have a passion for sales? Will you devote your life to conference calls, leaving your family and friends behind while you camp out under your desk, ready to dial in at any time?
An Oral History of Vincent D’Onofrio’s Perfect Men in Black ‘Sugar Water’ Scene
Robots are breaking out of their cages on the factory floor, and here’s what they are doing
Collaborative robots, or cobots, have been working with humans on the factory floor for years, but when it comes to the large-scale industrial robots that can lift and move massive pieces of manufacturing, the danger to human workers is so great that the robots are bolted down to the factory floor b
HBO cancels ‘Vice News Tonight’
HBO is not renewing its nightly news series with Vice News, The Hill has learned. Vice News CEO Nancy Dubuc announced in an email to staff Monday morning obtained by The Hill that the cable news company had “made the decision not to renew Vice News tonight” after seven seasons.
FedEx to End U.S. Express Business With Amazon
Delivery giant, in severing U.S. air contract, says it wants to focus on other retailers FedEx Corp. FDX 0.75% is ending its air-shipping contract with Amazon.com Inc. in the U.S., evidence of escalating tensions between the longtime partners as the e-commerce giant builds its own delivery network.
This ID Scanner Company is Collecting Sensitive Data on Millions of Bargoers
We’ve all seen it, and some of us have lived it: A bar patron mouths off to a bouncer, tags a wall, gets in a fight, or is just too drunk and disorderly. They’re not just kicked out for…
Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
Recently, a musician signed to a major indie label told me they were owed up to $40,000 in song royalties they would never be able to collect.
The Boring Company on Twitter
General Motors designs a new “brain and nervous system” for its vehicles
A common criticism of the increasingly digital nature of new cars and trucks is that all these new features are being shoehorned into systems that were not designed with features like connectivity in mind.
Apple and Amazon cut a deal that upended the Mac resale market
When John Bumstead looked at listings for his products on Amazon.com in early January, he was waiting for the guillotine to fall.
Watch an autonomous drone dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge a football
Drones are agile things, but they’re not exactly known for their quick reactions. If you want to knock one out of the sky, a well-thrown ball or even a spear should do the trick.
Space Engineer: We Could Move Earth’s Orbit to Escape a Dying Sun
In about five billion years, the Sun will begin to die, rapidly expanding and incinerating the Earth in its death throes. That’s not for a while, but any humans left will need to plan well in advance if they want to escape cosmic obliteration.
Apple Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone Upgrade
Unimpressed by Apple’s upcoming iPhone 11 and iPhone XR2? New information directly from Apple itself has teased a red-hot new iPhone upgrade that’s worth waiting for.
First look at Tesla’s new in-car driving visualization
Tesla is currently pushing a new software update with a revamp of its in-car driving visualization produced by its Autopilot system. Today, we get a quick first look at it with a new video. As we reported earlier this month, Tesla started pushing a new software update (2019.