Month: February 2020
Perry Bible Fellowship’s Nicholas Gurewitch on making comics for the internet’s golden age
One of the internet’s most beloved webcomics is back in The Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack’s 10th anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword from Michael Cera, undiscovered comics and sketches, and strips that have been reformatted to read like they would on a phone screen. Nicholas Gurewitch’s book — a gorgeous…
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Civilized Cycles is an electric bike full of surprises
The first thing you notice about Civilized Cycles’ first electric bike are those enormous, fully integrated panniers on the rear rack. They’re impossible to miss: massive, dual saddle bags encased in a seemingly tough carbon fiber shell. You could carry a whole load of groceries in those things, while also…
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EE cuts the cost of Samsung S20 deals but somehow remains more pricey than most
The Samsung Galaxy S20 has only just made its pre-order appearance with deals hitting the virtual shelves just days ago. So when EE announced it was cutting prices, we were ready to pop open a bottle of champagne…and then we checked the prices. Despite going at its prices with surgical…
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Netflix wants to kill off JPEGs
Netflix may be known for its video streaming service but the company also deals with a lot of images and because of this, it has released an update to a new image file format called AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) which it believes can replace JPEGs. The video streaming giant…
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The six strategic stages of seed fundraising in 2020
With so many new investors, the old seed fundraise playbook needs a rewrite Danny Crichton 8 hours Seed fundraising is rarely easy, but it certainly used to be a lot less complicated than it is today. In a simpler world, a seed investor (or maybe two) would lead a round,…
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Delta is going carbon neutral
One of the biggest airlines in the world, Delta, has just committed to going carbon neutral. Its pledge — to cancel out all of the greenhouse gas emissions it produces — is one of the most ambitious climate commitments ever made by an airline. Delta will spend $1 billion over…
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