YouTube Music is still catching up on features, and this time around it's one of the most important elements: the Now Playing screen you see whenever you listen. After weeks of testing, the Android version's updated playback screen includes clearer and more persistent buttons, including Up Next (to show your queue), shuffle, repeat and flipping…
In 1995, the computer scientist David Gedye had an idea that could only originate at a cocktail party. What if the world’s personal computers were linked together on the internet to create a virtual supercomputer that could help with SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence? The network would be able to sort through the massive…
Hello and welcome back to our approved morning watch at non-public companies, public markets and the grey pickle in between. We’re nonetheless in IPO-land this morning, working our design through…
As U.S. markets opened Monday morning, 30-year old engineer Vivek Sevak was ready to cut his losses. The recreational trader had put money in a market-short exchange traded fund, and was looking to sell. But when he logged into his Robinhood account to make …
Health officials in South Korea tested 10,000 people for the coronavirus on Friday alone. This week, they built drive-thru coronavirus screening locations, giving hundreds of patients an assessment of their health in just 10 minutes. The US announced its fir…
We knew this was coming, as last fall, FX announced that Hulu would become its official streaming home. For the most part, new episodes will air on their respective FX channels and land on Hulu the next day.FX also has a number of Hulu-exclusive series in the works. The first is an eight-episode run of…
A 65-inch TV is a monolithic black mirror, radiating a dark power. It makes itself the center of gravity in any room. Furniture becomes inexplicably angled toward it, people find themselves staring even when it's off, drawn to the ineffable grace. I mean they're also just really big. Bigger than I always think they're going…
mParticle, which helps firms love Spotify, Paypal and Starbucks umanage their buyer records, is announcing that it has raised $45 million in Sequence D funding. Co-founder and CEO Michael Katz…
The rally in U.S. government bonds broke fresh ground, with the yield on benchmark 10-year debt briefly falling close to the 1% mark after a week of steep stock-market selloffs and escalating bets on interest-rate cuts. But yields retraced some of their earl…
Two patients in King County, Washington have died of the coronavirus — the first two deaths on US soil. King County public health officials confirmed the second death on Sunday evening. The patient was a man in his 70s with underlying health problems. The ma…
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