Month: February 2020
All the ways China’s coronavirus outbreak is affecting tech
The tech sector is currently feeling the impact of the coronavirus, with companies closing offices, stores, and factories in China as well as restricting employees from nonessential travels to the country. The closures, which were initially expected to last through the Lunar New Year holiday week in late January, have…
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Catching up with B Capital, the fast-growing firm founded by Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly
B Capital Group, formed in in 2015 by Facebook cofounder Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly, formerly of Bain Capital, has been quietly building its business since closing its first fund with $360 million in capital commitments, anchored by the management consulting giant Boston Consulting Group. Already the firm, which is…
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There’s only one way to tweet right now, and it’s making Twitter a better place
Twitter is in the midst of an outage for its most basic function: sending your thoughts into the ether via tweeting. On DownDetector, the service is showing a spike in problems over the last hour or so. Tweets sent bounce right back; it appears that retweets are also limited. But…
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When is Star Trek: Picard episode 4 released?
Wondering when Star Trek: Picard episode 4 is available to stream? The latest show in the illustrious Star Trek series releases every Thursday on CBS All Access in the US, and every Friday on Amazon Prime Video in international territories, which includes the UK and Australia. By now you’ve seen…
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Mythic Quest: Raven’s Banquet is a comedy surprise you can’t miss
Video games are a hard thing to love. The medium rarely translates well outside of its own little island — think of all the bad video game adaptations we’ve seen, or how “video game” is usually used as a shorthand for “shallow” when used to describe stories in other media.…
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This girls-only app uses AI to screen a user’s gender — what could go wrong?
A new social app called Giggle is pitching itself as a girls-only networking platform. To sign up, users have to take a selfie. And while that might not sound too invasive, the app then uses “bio-metric gender verification software” to determine whether that person is a woman. If that wasn’t…
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