Month: April 2021
Nike and MSCHF settle Satan Shoe lawsuit, say any ‘confused’ buyers can get a refund
Nike and the internet collective MSCHF have settled their trademark dispute over a run of unofficially modified Satan-themed Nike sneakers. Neither company disclosed the terms of the deal. But it apparently includes an offer to let customers return their $1,018 “Satan Shoes” — or a pair of MSCHF’s earlier “Jesus…
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Daily Crunch: KKR invests $500M into Box
Box gets some financial ammunition against an activist investor, Samsung launches the Galaxy SmartTag+ and we look at the history of CryptoPunks. This is your Daily Crunch for April 8, 2021. The big story: KKR invests $500M into Box Private equity firm KKR is making an investment into Box that…
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Google Pixel Watch leak teases a classic timepiece feature wear os
A new Google Pixel Watch leak shows a purported glimpse of the rumored smartwatch, suggesting it’s getting a feature we usually see on traditional timepieces: a physical crown. The peek came in a tweet courtesy of leaker Jon Prosser, who teased it a day before on Twitter claiming images (plural)…
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Facebook and Instagram are down
Facebook and Instagram were down on Thursday afternoon. The outage appeared to start around 5:30PM ET, with several thousand people reporting outages on DownDetector. The outage is the second one in less than a month from the social media giant; an outage on March 19th took its sites offline for…
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Microsoft Edge is getting a welcome Windows 10 security boost Microsoft Edge
Microsoft has begun rolling out a new security feature for Edge in Windows 10 that will prevent unauthenticated users from using autofill to enter passwords in its browser. Just like with other modern browsers, Microsoft Edge contains a built-in password manager that allows users to store and autofill their passwords.…
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YouTuber records himself trespassing at SpaceX’s Starship facilities
A YouTuber recorded himself entering SpaceX’s Starship rocket facilities in south Texas last month, freely sauntering on site. No security stopped him from wandering around the underside of SN11, the 16-story-tall rocket prototype that would launch and explode just a few days later. The video was posted to a small…
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