The London fintech startup Portify has raised £7 million in a Series A funding round, for its platform to help gig economy and self-employed workers manage their finances, according to TechCrunch. In addition to financial planning with Open Banking to track and plan finances through a mobile […]
Month: December 2019
Need to Know: WSU board changes, legalized sports betting and more from the past week
The News: Michigan's Legislature voted Wednesday to legalize sports betting and internet gambling, expanding options for gamblers in a state with …
This 9TB tape shows why magnetic can still be better than SSD or hard drives
Music tapes will bring back warm, fuzzy memories to those born in the early 1980s, but magnetic ribbons have long been replaced by shiny coasters, silicon chips and cloud storage for anyone wanting to store data. But thetechnology is not dead yet – you can […]
To the editor: Farmers are doing the right thing
For Ohio farmers, the problem of voluntary vs. mandatory phosphorus reduction measures (“No more half measures for Lake Erie,” Nov. 24) came …
Consumer sous vide startup Nomiku is winding down operations
Founded in 2012, Nomiku became a plucky Silicon Valley darling by bringing affordable sous vide cooking to home kitchens. A Kickstarter project that same year generated $750,000, several times its $200,000 goal. The company scored a glowing TechCrunch profile the following year, as well, thanks […]
The Future of Sex Work Slams Up Against Big Tech
Xavier Blanco was anxious for change. When I spoke with the 32-year-old New Yorker last week, curious about his motivations for joining OnlyFans after a decade working in a more buttoned-up line of business, he put it plainly, explaining he “needed an outlet for the […]
Study suggests vapers are 1.3 times more likely to develop lung disease
“What we found is that for e-cigarette users, the odds of developing lung disease increased by about a third, even after controlling for their tobacco use and their clinical and demographic information,” senior author Stanton Glantz said in a statement. “We concluded that e-cigarettes are […]
Travolge e uccide con l’auto due ciclisti. Positivo all’alcol test e senza assicuazione: arrestato
Un impatto tremendo che ha spezzato in due le biciclette e frantumato il parabrezza dell’auto. Così nel pomeriggio a Verolanuova in provincia di Brescia sono morti due ciclisti, un 70enne e un 67 entrambi residenti a Cremona, travolti e uccisi da un’ auto. Chi era […]
RIFORMA PENSIONI/ L’attacco degli esodati al Governo (ultime notizie)
Riforma pensioni, tra gli emendamenti alla manovra bocciati anche quello riguardante gli esodati, che reagiscono duramente. by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
College Football Betting Lines: National Title Odds
The 2019 College Football Playoff committee got rather fortunate because there were no major upsets on conference championship weekend and it …