Day: July 23, 2019

Using Spotify and Netflix payments to build your credit score? Grow Credit has a service for that.

Can subscriptions and everyday payments be used to help build or rebuild a credit score? The Los Angeles-based Grow Credit thinks so. The service, which launched earlier this month, is one of the slew of new ideas coming from businesses that are angling to help […]

How to Watch Robert Mueller’s Testimony—and What to Expect

On Wednesday, former special counsel Robert Mueller will testify before Congress. More specifically, he’ll field questions from the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees in two separate sessions. If you haven’t gotten around to reading the Mueller report yet—but seriously, read the Mueller report, now’s your […]

Xbox Project Scarlett games: all the games confirmed and expected on the next Xbox

Microsoft officially announced Xbox Project Scarlett during its E3 2019 keynote conference. It’s real, and it’s coming. Faster and capable of more advanced graphics than its predecessors, the next-generation hardware promises to be the most powerful games console (or perhaps consoles) in the world when it […]

Alphabet’s Loon balloons developed clever strategies to pass 1M hours flying in Earth’s stratosphere

Alphabet’s Loon subsidiary, which aims to blanket the Earth in high-speed broadband Internet connectivity, has passed the 1 million hour mark in terms of total time spent in Earth’s stratosphere across all its flights. The balloons occupy the upper-edge of Earth’s atmosphere, in an altitude […]

The Twisted Flight Paths of ‘Global Girl’ and the Lolita Express

The Gulfstream Girl can’t use that nickname anymore. In 2013, the model-turned-pilot—then 27, blond, often beaming in photos—was hit with a trademark infringement suit by Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, which told her their brand name was off-limits. That must have been a disappointment. As a commercial […]