Month: March 2021
Sivo, a young “Stripe for debt” led by a veteran operator, seems to have investors clamoring
Kate Hiscox is having a moment. Her company, Sivo, founded eight months ago, has already raised $5 million from investors at a post-money valuation of $100 million, and she is in active talks with others who would like her to consider accepting Series A funding from them. Partly, the attention…
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Time is running out to bid on an NFT version of Jack Dorsey’s first tweet if you really must
If you want to buy Jack Dorsey’s first tweet, you’d better get your bid in. The billionaire co-founder and CEO of Twitter put the tweet up for digital auction as an NFT —non-fungible token— a digital good that lives on the Ethereum blockchain. Dorsey’s 15-year-old tweet is up for sale…
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Apple ordered to pay $308.5 million after jury finds it infringed on digital rights management patent
Apple has been ordered to pay $308.5 million to Personalized Media Communications after a federal jury in Texas found the company had infringed on a technology patent related to digital rights management, Bloomberg reported. PMC had sued Apple over its FairPlay technology, used to distribute encrypted content from iTunes, Apple…
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PS5 restock date: Amazon, Target, Best Buy and other US stores – here’s when PS5 restock
The next PS5 restock dates will be this week, according to our warehouse sources at various retailers in the US, and we’re giving you a heads-up on where and when the PS5 will see new stock. Specifically, our PS5 restock Twitter tracker is the fastest way to get alerts about…
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New trailers: In the Heights, the WeWork documentary, Concrete Cowboy and more
So I have utterly failed at trying not to watch Hannibal right before bed; it definitely makes for weird dreams but it’s so good. I’m about halfway through season 2 now and getting very nervous for some of the characters I don’t remember from Silence of the Lambs and/or Red…
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The debate about cryptocurrency and energy consumption
Energy consumption has become the latest flashpoint for cryptocurrency. Critics decry it as an energy hog while proponents hail it for being less intensive than the current global economy. One such critic, DigiEconomist founder Alex de Vries, said he’s “never seen anything that is as inefficient as bitcoin.” On the…
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