Over the past few months, Sinemia has gone from promising MoviePass competitor to the source of frustration for moviegoers across the country. After rumors surfaced earlier this week that it would be backing away from its troubled subscription-based movie ticket offering, it posted official word […]
Day: April 25, 2019
Trump Evicts Tech Workers, Avengers Return, and More News
Thousands of immigrant tech workers are being sent home under the Trump administration, GoDaddy is out to fight spam, and the Avengers are ready for their End Game. Here’s the news you need to know in two minutes or less. Visa rejections for tech workers […]
Adobe shows off new color palette experiment for Illustrator
Adobe today used the OFFF festival in Barcelona to show off an experimental feature for its Illustrator vector drawing application. The basic idea here is to allow Illustrator users to easily experiment with color palettes based on photos and other images. That makes it incredibly […]
Chromium-based Edge for macOS could arrive sooner than you think
Microsoft has previously said that it expects to bring the new Chromium-powered version of Edge to other platforms outside of Windows, specifically mentioning the Mac, and freshly unearthed evidence indicates the browser will indeed be arriving on macOS – and possibly relatively soon. This comes […]
Traveling To TV & Movie Locations Is The Travel Trend You Absolutely Need To Try This Year
Traveling to TV and movie locations, aka "set-jetting," is the travel trend that … In addition, according to Quartzy, Croatia has seen a huge bump in tourism … on the quaint island of Vis (even though the storyline takes place in Greece). social experiment by […]
Zwift CEO Eric Min on fitness-gaming and bringing esports into the Olympics
The rumored IPO plans of $4 billion spinning brand Peloton marks the rise of a wave of interactive fitness startups like Mirror, Tonal, Hydrow, and At Home 360 that combine a monthly subscription to recorded and/or live video classes with workout hardware. There’s opportunity beyond this […]
How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’
Amazon's fulfillment centers are the engine of the company — massive warehouses where workers track, pack, sort, and shuffle each order before … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Beyoncé, Donald Glover, Adidas, Nike, and the Fight for Cool
Recently, in a group chat, I expressed excitement over an unlikely piece of work: a new short film from Adidas. The sportswear corporation, which now also counts Beyoncé as a “creative partner,” had teamed up with Donald Glover to make a series of vignettes featuring […]
The venture firm SOSV has already raised its biggest fund to date, and it isn’t quite closed
SOSV, a multi-stage venture firm that was founded as the personal investing vehicle of entrepreneur Sean O’Sullivan after his company went public in 1994, then re-launched as a traditional venture firm with outside backers in 2015, has raised $218 million for its third fund. The […]
Macron ai francesi: “Meno tasse? Dovete lavorare di più”
Emmanuel Macron sprona i suoi concittadini francesi, chiedendo uno sforzo ulteriore per finanziare la riduzione delle tasse promessa dall'Eliseo. by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit