A pintail hen takes flight. DepositPhotos This article was originally featured in Outdoor Life. As hunters and bird watchers track the waterfowl migration each year, many of them look up to the clouds of southbound birds and ponder: How far can ducks migrate in a day? Earlier this month, a pintail hen gave us an answer….
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Amazon plans to delist large seller Appario Retail, in which it maintains a stake, from the marketplace, the two said Monday, a year after ending ties for another large seller Cloudtail following allegations from retailers that some sellers received preferential treatment. Amazon and Patni Group-owned Zodiac said in a statement that they have agreed to…
It’s Halloween. And, if you’re contract management software company Icertis, it’s payday. After raising $115 million in 2019, Icertis today secured $150 million — $75 million in convertible debt and a $75 million revolving credit facility — in a combined tranche that brings the company’s total capital raised to $520 million. By going the debt…
Saba Karim Contributor Share on Twitter Saba Karim is director of the startup pipeline at Techstars. As the head of startup pipeline at Techstars, I’ve been getting on calls with founders, attending events, speaking on stages like TechCrunch’s Disrupt and hosting countless Twitter Spaces. Each time, I’ve been telling founders why they should join an…
Sitting at the bar after a comedy open mic, a couple of male comics asked me about sex parties. A joke I’d tried on stage about one experience had sparked their curiosities. After the usual questions about participation requirements, gender ratios, and voyeurism etiquette, one guy asked me how consent works at a play party….
This Halloween, in the midst of Wordle-inspired costumes and general mayhem, something stood out to me: my friend Temujin carrying a point-and-shoot digital camera, the kind that dominated the 2000s before smartphone cameras took reign. He was using his mother’s camera, he explains, but he’s taken it for his own now. Throughout the night, we…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere. Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have become indispensable to millions of users. Tesla Autopilot has the potential to change driving forever. And IBM Watson took a new job providing big data solutions to corporations after its first job was in jeopardy. Those are just the most prominent examples. Helpful applications…
As we’re on the cusp of Halloween and an evening of trick-and-treating, there’s always an app that helps us get into the holiday spirit, and this year’s example is the Opera GX web browser. It’s available on iOS and Android with a secret theme. Opera GX is, based on our testing, a fun web browser…
Despite cybersecurity being a significant concern for the majority of companies, many still wouldn’t be able to tell if their endpoints had been compromised, or not. However this news may not be as bad as it sounds. Cybersecurity researchers from Nozomi Networks found over a third (35%) of businesses did not know if their organization…
US President Donald Trump (L) speaks with Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on March 7, 2020. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images World leaders swiftly backed Brazil’s president-elect on his election victory over Jair Bolsonaro. President Joe Biden and others described the contest as “free” and “fair.” Analysts…