With professional athletics inevitably comes debauchery. That’s just how it is. England soccer legend Paul Gascgoine notoriously had his best performances after coke and brandy-fueled benders. Iconic baseball player Wade Boggs reportedly downed 107 beers in a single day. Even the comparatively low-key world of gymnastics is no stranger to controversy. Dutch gymnast Yuri van…
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Qualcomm today said it wouldn’t extend its offer to buy NXP for $44 billion today as part of its release for its quarterly earnings, and instead be returning $30 billion to investors in the form of a share buy-back. So, barring any last-second changes in the approval process in China or “other material developments”, the…
Facebook is hiding that users are leaving its main app but sticking with Instagram and WhatsApp by publicizing a new metric. Facebook today for the first time announced that in June, 2.5 billion people used at least one of its apps: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger. That’s a helpful number because it counts real people,…
The trouble with microphones is that they don’t just hear — they have to listen. Powering the mic and its signal processor means using energy, and energy means a battery, and a battery means charging. This new microphone-like system hears more like the way our own ears do, requiring little or no power, and could…
The tech gods and goddesses must adore procrastinators, because we were suddenly compelled to extend our early-bird pricing on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2018. It kills us to see folks paying more than necessary, so you now have until August 1 at midnight PST — another full week — to get your tickets and…
Google confirmed it has issued a strike against Infowars founder Alex Jones’ YouTube channel for breaking the video platform’s policies against child endangerment and hate speech. Four videos were also removed. The strike means Jones’ channel will not be allowed to live stream for 90 days. In a statement emailed to reporters, a Google representative said…
Zen Rooms, the budget hotel network startup founded by Rocket Internet, had faced the deadpool earlier this year after a prospective funding deal collapsed, but now the business appears to have found a home. Korea’s Yanolja, a popular motel brand that has branched out into app-based hotel bookings, has made a strategic investment that could see it…
Beleaguered Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg caused quite a stir last week in an interview with Recode’s Kara Swisher. In their 90 minute talk, Zuckerberg and Swisher discussed Facebook‘s wild ride the past two years, including his thoughts on fake news and what the company was doing to prevent its spread. When asked about Alex Jones,…
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