The smart home concept is increasingly becoming the norm. Over the past few years, we’ve seen an increase in voice recognition assistants and connected devices to make our busy lives more seamless. With a few speaking commands, we don’t have to lift a finger to play music, stream content, turn off the lights, or pick…
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Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Alex and Grace are back to cover the biggest, boldest and baddest technology news. After some holiday weeks, we are back on an actual Monday! What a treat. Here’s what we got into: Stocks…
If you’re trying to fill the Stranger Things-shaped hole in your life after the end of Stranger Things 4, a quick phone call to a certain West Coast pizza joint is just what you need. Surfer Boy Pizza and its lovable stoner employee Argyle (Eduardo Franco) played a large role in Stranger Things 4. Argyle…
Your high school cliques could soon be a part of workplace calls due to a new update coming to Microsoft Teams. The video conferencing platform is making a tweak to its Together Mode that will allow meeting organizers to assign specific seats to certain participants. This means that teams of co-workers, friends or even just…
Donald Trump (left) and a phone displaying his social media app, Truth Social. Brandon Bell/Getty Images/Christoph Dernbach/picture alliance via Getty Images Digital World Acquisition climbed 15% Monday after Elon Musk walked away from his Twitter bid. Musk cited a lack of clarity over spam accounts as driving his decision to leave the deal. But he…
Ahead of the Amazon Prime Day 2022 sales, online shoppers have been urged to be on their guard once again against scams and online fraud. A report from Juniper research has estimated that if current trends persist, the total overall losses to online payment fraud for merchants across the world between 2023 and 2027 will…
Pierre “P” Thomas (left) and Kevin “Coach K” Lee. Courtesy of QC Kevin “Coach K” Lee and Pierre “P” Thomas cofounded Quality Control Music in 2013. They manage artists like Lil Baby, City Girls, and Migos. Their best advice for entrepreneurs is learn to adapt to change and to not box yourself in. In 2013,…
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) during a break in a hearing of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building on June 9, 2022 in Washington, DC. Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images The House Select Committee investigating the January 6…
The Twitter logo is displayed on the screen of the phone, with Elon Musk’s Twitter account in the background. Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images US stocks were lower to start the week after ending last week with a modest gain. Investors are bracing for earnings season, with several corporate giants on tap to report…
A candlelight vigil to pay tribute to the late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Sam Panthaky/AFP via Getty Images The Unification Church confirmed the Shinzo Abe shooting suspect’s mother was a follower. The group did not name her but said she became a member in 1998. The suspect told police that his mother went…