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We started Popcorn Time as a challenge to ourselves. That’s our motto. That’s what we stand for. Pochoclin our mascot We are enormously proud of this project. It is the biggest thing we’ve ever achiev

Economic Scene What if inequality were to continue growing years or decades into the future? Say the richest 1 percent of the population amassed a quarter of the nation’s income, up from about a fifth today. What about half? To believe Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics, this future is…

Politics Trump’s Iran war messaging is not winning over Americans – or their representatives Trump, still negotiating to conclude the war, claims it’s already over. Some Republican lawmakers have had enough The Guardian Business Middle-class Americans are ‘squeezing more life out of every dollar’ as…

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The White House urged tech workers, or "geeks," to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and said having the coverage will give them the "freedom and security" to start their own

Banjo Raises $16M To Grow Its Experiential Real-Time News And Events Platform Darrell Etherington 5:46 AM PDT · March 13, 2014 Startup Banjo has raised a new $16 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total raised to date to $21 million. The round was led by Balderton Capital, and included…

Steve Brigham “Welcome to the zoo,” a man snarls as I walk down a dirt track in Lakewood, New Jersey, into an encampment in the forest known simply as Tent City. It’s two in the afternoon, and he’s dr

Warning: This story contains sexually explicit material that may be NSFW. Women on Facebook : The next time you post a photo showing the slightest amount of skin, it could end up on Reddit, where near

Simply put, Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soap is the greatest cleansing liquid available. It’s grossly effective (getting clean is great, but seeing exactly how dirty you were just a few minutes prior by watching the brownish water trailing down the drain is disgusting), it works for everything, and its…

The Internet giveth, and the Internet taketh away. Or maybe that should be the other way around. Months after HealthCare.gov's botched launch, it's suddenly enjoying a burst of popularity. Where is al

10 min read (Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog's Favourite Living Canadian) He never ran. He didn't hop a plane to Hong Kong and end up in Moscow. Daniel Ellsberg provided the country with the most vivid look inside the dark side decision-making process that…

In an era when we've all got GPS in our pockets, OnStar in our cars and the NSA tracking anyone, anywhere, it is still possible--although rare--for an airliner to seemingly vanish. That appears to be

March 11, 2014 What I learned about online-to-offline Many new online-to-offline entrepreneurs have asked me about my experience founding Exec. “Uber for X” businesses seem to be the startup of the day – it probably helps that on the face they are less technically complex and more accessible to…

From Spotify and Netflix recommendations to Facebook’s news feed or Google’s search results, algorithms play a pivotal role in our media consumption. But what does this mean for journalism, and democracy in general? That was the focus for one of the sparkiest sessions at the SXSW conference in…

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Whisper , the popular anonymous sharing app, is reeling in more money from venture capitalists, only six months after its last funding round . The round is worth just shy of $30 million, and places po

Apple is readying an upgraded version of its iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch Maps application for the next major release of iOS in an effort to battle Google for mobile maps supremacy, according to sources briefed on the plans. Apple CEO Tim Cook, Senior Vice Presidents Eddy Cue and Craig Federighi,…

One thing that iTunes, Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have proven is that content makers can fight piracy by providing a better, easier service to paying customers. But what happens when piracy fights back with something just as convenient? A new app called Popcorn Time raises that very question.…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A man traveling with a stolen passport on a missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner was an Iranian teenager trying to migrate to Germany, and is not believed to have any terrorist links, police said Tuesday. The announcement is likely to dampen, at least for now, speculation…

March 11, 2014 WTF Delaware!? So, it’s tax time. Like all responsible business owners out there, I decide it’s time to pay my annual Delaware franchise tax. It’s 2014, and thanks to Al Gore, I can fully expect a hassle-free experience when paying my tax bill at delaware.gov. Maybe not as smooth as…

Sean Hollister is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Over the course of the last year, the balance of power at Microsoft has drastically changed. Now, BusinessWeek has chronicled…

Over 1,200 military officers and soldiers have been implicated in a long-running, widespread kickback scheme in the National Guard, according to a Congressional oversight panel last week. The scheme is as simple as it is scandalous. In 2005, with the country embattled in two wars, the Army National…

New York subway riders first were promised futuristic touchscreen wayfinding maps a year ago. But the plan to install the futuristic infrastructure stalled as the design team took a step back to improve the hardware. Six months overdue, the first batch is finally live in Grand Central Station. They…

I was one of the original developers on Orchestra, the PHP PaaS that Engine Yard acquired in 2011. Many of our customers were using PaaS for the first time, having come from very traditional hosting b

3 min read Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: An experiment reveals that our vision lags up to 15 seconds behind real time.Our eyes smooth out how we see the world, but scientists don’t fully understand how.This experiment helps narrow it down to an idea called serial dependence.…

When talking to entrepreneurs at the very early stages of their companies, I’ve noticed that there’s a tendency to give a fairly long product roadmap. “And then we’ll add this. And then this. And then this.” That type of thing. And I think that’s fine; it’s good to be thinking ahead, and it’s even…

Like everything else on the iPhone, the critical crypto flaw announced in iOS 7 yesterday turns out to be a study in simplicity and elegant design: a single spurious "goto" in one part of Apple's authentication code that accidentally bypasses the rest of it.

Facebook's recon team hit the ground in Nigeria in the dead of night, and right away ran into trouble with the law. "What did you bring for me," demanded the first cop they encountered. "We brought ou

When Growth Hacking Goes Bad Sarah Perez 8:55 AM PST · January 3, 2014 Andreessen Horowitz-backed music lyrics and annotations Rap Genius was the latest to stray over to the darker side of so-called “growth hacking,” with its spammy SEO tactics disguised as an affiliate program. Called out, exposed…

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Wednesday that the conservative Koch brothers are "un-American." Responding to ads being run by a Koch-backed group against Obamacare, Reid said the ads

Soon you could read all 309 pages of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" in under 77 minutes. Yes, you. To get through it that quickly (a pace of 1,000 words a minute) you'll have to use an about-to-be released app and forgo the idea of reading page by page. With Spritz, which is coming to the…