Bedding startup Boll & Branch raises $100M

Boll & Branch, which sells sustainably-sourced sheets, pillows, mattresses and towels, is announcing that it has raised $100 million in a strategic investment from L Catterton’s Flagship Buyout Fund. This…

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The Jeopardy! Master is Making a Better Trivia Game

"I think most people's experience playing trivia is just feeling dumb, and that's no way to spend an evening."That sentence probably doesn't describe Ken Jennings, who holds the record for the longest winning streak on TV quiz show Jeopardy! after a 74-game winning streak (though he still lost to IBM's Watson in 2011). But Jennings,…

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Razer’s Blade Pro 17 Is Our Favorite XL Gaming Laptop

Laptops usually come in one of two flavors: 13-inch for portability or 15-inch for horsepower. Simple. Easy-peasy. Occasionally though, a manufacturer makes a laptop outside of that binary. Sometimes they're itty-bitty 12-inch ultrabooks, designed to slip into manila envelopes (our favorite laptops). This time, pendulum has swung the other direction, yielding the Razer Blade Pro,…

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While You Were Offline: Who Wants to See Sean Spicer’s Samba?

It’s been a week where people got very upset about the prospect of Spider-Man not appearing in any more Marvel movies but slightly less so about the fires in the Amazon rainforest. It’s also been a week where Taylor Swift put out a new album while announcing a plan to re-record her back catalog so…

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