US online payment giant PayPal dropped plans Tuesday to invest millions of dollars in North Carolina, joining a growing chorus of protests by major companies against recently passed state legislation targeting transgender people. PayPal’s move…
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Medium Rolls Out Tools to Woo Publishers; The Awl, Others Join Platform
Medium, the popular online publishing platform founded in 2012 by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is making efforts to attract more publishers to its platform. Medium on Tuesday announced that it will roll out new branding…
Amazon Resets Some Users’ Passwords After Hackers Leak Credentials
Amazon on Tuesday (Wednesday early morning in some parts of the world) sent out password reset emails to some of its Amazon account holders. The company said it had found “a list of email addresses…
Saavn Launches Original Programming Series, Announces Artist-in-Residence Program
Music streaming service Saavn announced Tuesday that it will be expanding the scope of its services through original long form audio programming, with ten new shows on May 1st. The ten new shows are through…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Defends Workplace Culture in Shareholder Note
Amazon chief executive and founder Jeff Bezos defended his company’s workplace culture and costly growth strategy in a letter to shareholders made public Tuesday. The work atmosphere at Seattle-based Amazon became a hot topic last…
Mozilla Co-Founder’s Brave Browser to Pay Ad-Viewing Users in Bitcoin
When Mozilla co-founder and former CEO Brendan Eich revealed the Brave Web browser back in January, the idea behind the browser was to block intrusive ads that slowed down the performance and the loading speed…
Not Sold on a Smart TV? Try the Google Chromecast
As much as I love just about anything home automation and anything with the word “smart” in it, I have never been completely sold on smart TVs. All it really does is save you some…
The Most Expensive 4K TV on the Market
Over the past few years, 4K televisions have become more affordable, but Vizio’s newest line has changed that. We all know and love Vizio. They make high quality TVs at very competitive prices. I have…
Amazon Just Introduced Us to Two New Members of the Echo Family
Amazon is dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s in the Internet of Things with its newest releases: the Echo Dot and the Echo Tap. Released together, though not dependent of each other, these…
Alexa-to-Go: Meet the Echo Tap
The Amazon Echo family just added two new members, the Echo Dot and the Echo Tap. You can read my thoughts on the Dot here. I’ve referred to the Dot as the original Echo’s younger…