To play on a Langston Hughes poem — what happens to a Black founder ousted? Are they forgotten, like words on the tip of one’s tongue? Or revered like a deity and then thrown to the sun? The topic is often awkward to ponder and layered in its probe since the reasons for a Black…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Mining cryptocurrency is no easy task, but neither is finding a co-founder who is savvy and resilient enough to withstand the sector’s volatile nature. Whether you’re mining for a co-founder or your next round of funding, TC Sessions: Crypto, which takes place on November 17 in Miami, provides fertile ground for all your networking needs….
Crypto enthusiasts promise to build a decentralized money system that allows people to freely trade without any intermediary intervention. It’s a rosy picture, but recent events of security vulnerability indicate that the decentralized world might not be working as well as the believers envision yet. That’s why entrepreneurs, infused with venture capital, are racing to…
Rivian is discontinuing the cheapest trim level of its all-electric truck and SUV known as the Explore package due to low demand, according to emails sent this week to customers. The company said in the email, which was first cited in the Rivian Owners Forum, that customers with a pre-order for the Explore package will…
Faire, an online marketplace that gives local retailers a way to buy wholesale from independent brands around the world, launched in 2017. That means the company, recently valued at $12.59 billion, has been navigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for roughly half of its life. The startup has had to not only navigate its…
SAVE 45%: Gather all kinds of data about your health and fitness from your wrist with the Amazon Halo Band, which is on sale for just $54.99 as of August 19. That’s a $45 (or 45%) discount from the $99.99 MSRP. Curious about how much quality sleep you’re getting? Want to compete with your friends…
A renewed, global interest in reading has sprung from an unlikely source: TikTok. The social media giant has a flourishing #BookTok community, one that saw the social media company seizing the opportunity to create its own TikTok Book Club earlier this summer. The club is now into its second month, which means an all-new title…
You can’t buy motivation. But, you can buy a fitness tracking device that lights a fire under your ass to take more than 500 steps in a day, and that’s not nothing. The rhetoric around fitness has changed quite a bit over the past few years (as made clear by Every Fashion Brand Ever releasing…
Can similar reading tastes lead to a healthy romance? Klerb, a new social app based on literary preferences, seems to think so. The app has already been called “Tinder for bookworms,” despite being in early beta. According to the site, Klerb is “a free meetup app for readers,” with IRL activities being offered for like-minded…
Who among us hasn’t wanted to just walk out of work early on a Friday? That’s what Netflix did on Friday morning in the U.S., anyway. Users around the country started reporting widespread outages around 11 a.m. ET on the last day of the work week, according to Down Detector (owned by Mashable’s parent company,…