A “Spot” robot dog made by Boston Dynamics. Sam Barnes/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images James Howells threw out a hard drive to a landfill in 2013 that contained 8,000 bitcoins. He has an $11 million business plan to excavate the drive and recover the bitcoins. The plan includes budget for two robotic dogs from…
Brittany Chang/Insider Chief is as members-only club for women executives in the US starting at $5,800 annually. Chief hit a $1.1 billion valuation in March after a fundraising round led by Alphabet’s venture firm CapitalG. See inside its New York City clubhouse complete with meeting rooms, bars, and outdoor lounges. For executive-level women in powerful…
Hi! Aaron Weinman reporting from New York. Amazon’s $3.9 billion purchase of One Medical could net Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley millions-of-dollars in advisory fees apiece. It comes as investment banks fall under the microscope for a slow year in dealmaking. Let’s unpack who at the two Wall Street giants put this deal together. If…
Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 at a military airbase in Ukraine, November 23, 2016. Danil Shamkin/NurPhoto via Getty Images US officials appear to be more open to sending Western-made fighter jets to Ukraine to fight Russia. But airpower has had little impact on the war, and Kyiv would benefit more from additional artillery. News that the…
We’re already in the run-up to Apple’s next hardware showcase, likely centered on its phones and wearables. This could include a shake-up for the Apple Watch — the first since the Series 4 watch back in 2018. The high-end variant of the Apple Watch Series 8 may feature the largest display Apple has ever crammed…
Discovering the right gaming monitor for your needs can be tough. Specs often vary significantly, even in the same price bracket, and adding a curved screen into the equation means there’s yet another thing to wrap your head around. However, while the concept of a curved TV has a gimmicky feel to it, since you’re…
The Comedy Pet Photo Awards celebrates the very best in amusing photos of pets. Each year people get the chance to submit hilarious images of their animals getting up to daft things in spectacular ways. Now the finalists for the Comedy Pet Photo Awards 2022 have been revealed. As you can imagine there are some…
Laser industry expert Ortur is officially unveiling its eagerly awaited Laser Master 3. “Imagine it, design it, make it!” As a well-known company in the laser engraving industry, Ortur has been committed to providing users with excellent creative solutions, and its laser engraving machines are hugely popular. The company’s Laser Master 2 recently exceeded 150,000…
Ubisoft is now reportedly targeting a 2023 release window for its next Assassin’s Creed game, which is expected to be a smaller, stealth-focused edition of the series. Codenamed Rift (though likely not its final title), this is the Baghdad-focused project which originally began life as a Valhalla expansion. It has since grown its own fully-fledged…
We may be getting to see more of Cal Kestis sooner than first assumed. That’s according to Twitter account PlayStation Game Size, which revealed Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was listed as releasing in “Early March 2023” on PlayStation Network’s internal database. The game’s PlayStation store page has since been updated, though, and now reads “date…