Alex Wilhelm 1 day The holiday season can be a lot. You might need something to make you feel better. This post doesn’t have it. But it does have some…

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today, something short. Continuing our loose collection of looks back…

Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors, the ride-hailing company announced today. Kalanick will officially resign from the board as of December 31,…

The listing was first spotted by Kotaku, and is interesting for a couple of reasons. To start, Drop It: Block Paradise first came out in 2017. If that weren't strange enough, it's been available on the Wii U in Europe, but not North America, since that same year as well. For whatever reason, Drop It:…

Arguably justifying the increased price, Sling TV added FOX News, MSNBC and CNN's HLN (Headline News) channels to its Sling Blue lineup. What will likely be more of a draw for new customers is the introduction of the company's "Cloud DVR Free" service, which allows users to record up to 10 hours of content with…

What's the deal with high-profile streamers leaving Twitch? Is VR finally going to go mainstream now that a Half-Life game is on the way? What's next for the streaming wars? And when did tech CEOs lose their luster?Depending on who you ask (and let's not get into that whole "there is no year 0" thing),…

The Expanse is back! Season 4 of the sci-fi thriller launched on Amazon Prime last week, and I’m already deep into it. The story is set in a future where humans have colonized the solar system and split into three groups, based on Earth, on Mars, and in the asteroid belt. And of course, whenever…

For many of us, winter, with its chilly days and long nights, brings with it a general sense of malaise. It’s harder to peel ourselves out of bed in the half-light of morning, and hunched over our desks at work, we can feel our productivity draining away with the remnants of the afternoon sun.Wired UKThis…

And now, it’s over. Not the year, not yet—although this is the final Cantina Talk of 2019—but the Skywalker Saga, which ended with last week’s release of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, a movie we don’t doubt everyone reading this has seen by now. (We liked it quite a bit, for what little it’s…

In the late 1970s, Robert Hazard had a problem. He’d been tooling around Philadelphia’s music scene for more than a decade, trying out any sound that might put him on the map, to no avail. Then, in 1981, he finally recorded a demo of catchy new wave songs, which his manager passed along to an…