Another day, another episode of Equity. This time it was an emergency episode, because Uber (finally) went public and a lot of financial folks were quite looking forward to how it would perform on opening day. Turns out it didn’t do so well. Kate and […]
Day: May 13, 2019
The best USB audio interface
Why you should trust us Daniel Varghese is a Wirecutter associate staff writer who covers the AV and smart-home categories. He has been using USB audio interfaces since high school, when he used to record his school band, and he continues to use them as […]
The world is my office: why I chose to become a digital nomad worker
I dismissed the idea at first. Over a picnic in south London’s Brockwell Park last May my friend Tom asked whether I had ever considered leaving the UK behind and continuing my football journalism career abroad. “Nice thought, mate,” I replied. “But I can’t see […]
Brighton vs Man City live stream: how to watch today’s Premier League football online
So can Manchester City do it? The 2018/19 Premier League title is theirs to lose as they head to Brighton on the last day of the season. A win would seal a second consecutive championship. And you’ve come to the right place to see how […]
From crypto winter to crypto weirder
Captain Kirk and neo-Dadaists. Repugnant markets and legendary cryptographers. “Digital couture” auctioned by CryptoKitties developers. Distributed autonomous art organizations. A keynote speech looking back from 2047 at the near-apocalypse of 2026, from which we were saved by a new, fully tokenized economy. Yes, that’s right: […]
*Tolkien* Proves the Hobbits Are More Important Than the Man
In the new movie Tolkien, war is murder—and sometimes Mordor. Clouds of mustard gas billowing into the trenches of the Somme become the smoke of dragon fire; German soldiers setting men alight with flamethrowers transform into the dragon itself. A young James Ronald Reuel Tolkien […]
Picture of the day for May 13, 2019 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
Wikipedia picture of the day on May 13, 2019: Presidential guard of Peru during Peru’s National (Independence) Day in front of the Government Palace, Plaza de Armas, Lima, Peru. http://bit.ly/2WDNSH1
