The idea seemed simple: If you find yourself regularly ordering the same thing from Amazon — coffee, laundry detergent, whatever — why not replace the whole ordering process with a…

Direct-to-consumer plant retailer Bloomscape has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding, with several high-profile D2C startup founders signing on as investors. Founder and CEO Justin Mast told me that…

Damian Bradfield Contributor Damian Bradfield is the president, CMO and founding partner of WeTransfer, the company that designs tools for the creative process. His upcoming book, The Trust Manifesto, about…

The $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract drama continues. It’s a process that has been dogged by complaints, regulatory oversight and court cases. Throughout the months-long selection process, the Pentagon…

DoorDash has reached an agreement with Square to purchase on-demand food delivery and catering business Caviar. DoorDash has agreed to pay Square $410 million in cash and preferred DoorDash stock.…

At this week's big meeting of the "Five Eyes" countries, Barr was in attendance. His demands that internet companies break safe security standards of encryption -- with backdoors, or whatever gets the job done -- was one of the meeting's main topics.Yep, you read that right — we're doing the "war on encryption," again.Encrypted communication…

It's playable for free, although you're limited to the demo version with one character class, a fraction of the levels and virtually none of the conversations with Tristram's residents. Don't fret, though. If you have a copy of the full game (whether from GOG, a disc or elsewhere), you can load its main data file…

I've complained about DeX before -- it's not a very powerful replacement for a true desktop OS and often loads mobile versions of things like Google Docs. Plus, on our demo Tab S6, DeX mode took a few seconds to launch and a few additional seconds to return to regular Android. But at least it…

When it comes to hip-hop, these earbuds don't deliver the same thump as over-ear headphones, but they handle it better than most true-wireless options. Denzel Curry's ZUU can be a bit much for them at times, but that album is thick with heavy bass. The WF-1000XM3 soars with slightly mellower hip-hop like Flying Lotus' Flamagra…

Apple MacBook Pro (13-inch)It was a tough call, but when it came down to deciding which Mac laptop to recommend, we went with the MacBook Pro over the Air. With a starting price of $1,299, the 13-inch MacBook Pro is only $200 more than the 13-inch Air. They share a lot of the same DNA,…