Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge When I was a kid, I was entranced by commercials for the Talkboy Tape Recorder. They promised you a life of pranks and trickery, a perfect tool for being optimally annoying to siblings and loved ones — as seen in Home Alone 2! The world has changed a…
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Rode is launching Rode X, a new audio hardware and software sub-brand for gamers and streamers. | Image: Rode Rode has announced a new division dedicated to audio equipment designed to serve the needs of the gaming and streaming community. The Australian audio company has named this new sub-brand “Rode X,” and the lineup will…
The current unreliability of patent-eligibility law, documented thus far here, here and here, has also created undue burdens on litigants and the courts. In this final installment, we detail how the current unreliability burdens litigants and the courts and how it is a fundamental threat to U.S. competitiveness and national security. Patent infringers now routinely…
Enlarge (credit: Busa Photography) ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature…
Amanda Reed We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Having the greatest technology in the world is not particularly helpful if it is uncharged, or difficult to charge for that matter. And while there’s a lot of useful information out there about charging,…
Harbor seals hanging out in the surf. Deposit Photos Seals are very vocal and musical animals. Baby seals have been known to sing low notes to get attention, and their knack for being noisy sets them apart from other animals. Biologists believe that the ability to produce new vocalizations is a key ingredient to the…
Google, DuckDuckGo, and other search engines help you find information from the web. But it’s hard to find documents, messages, meetings, and emails from your own accounts. You need to go to different applications to find things that might be related to one project. A Y-Combinator-backed app called Needl is helping users with that. Needl…
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Insider’s experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). In some cases, we receive a commission from our our partners, however, our opinions are our own. Terms apply to offers listed on this page. You can file an extension by completing Form 4868. Pekic/Getty A tax…
Donna Langley at October’s Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Gala. Frazer Harrison/Getty Universal film chief Donna Langley says movies will never go back to “those exclusive traditional windows” in theaters. On the disappointing box office for gay romcom “Bros”: “People didn’t show up, so somehow we missed the mark.” “I would love to see a…