A spiritual and wellness retreat aimed at black women has become a major topic of…
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Target partners with Honeyfund to add cash gifts to its wedding registry
Chalk one up to the power of media exposure. The team responsible for building Target’s…
Twenty years after kidnapping newborn, Florida woman pleads guilty
(Reuters) – A Florida woman on Monday pleaded guilty to abducting a newborn from a…
The Latest: Police identify gunman in Detroit standoff
The Latest on a Detroit shooting and standoff that left three women dead, three officers…
The Falcon Heavy launch made me feel like a little kid again
You know that feeling of awe and wonder you had when you were a kid…
Suspicious package scare hospitalizes Trump Jr.'s wife: police
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Vanessa Trump, the wife of Donald Trump Jr., and two other…
Detroit standoff ends; gunman, 3 women dead, officers hurt
Police say a 14-hour standoff with an armed man in Detroit has ended following the…
Cryptocurrency-mining malware put UK and US government machines to work
Over the weekend, a little piece of malware was hard at work mining cryptocurrency on…
Trump budget cuts domestic programs, favors military and wall
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump proposed a budget on Monday that calls for cuts…
What to expect from Mobile World Congress 2018
The world’s largest phone show is set for Barcelona later this month, and it’s shaping…
Obama jokes about ears, gray hair as official portrait unveiled
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Barack Obama joked about his ears and gray hair…
Facebook starts pushing its data-tracking Onavo VPN within its main mobile app
Onavo Protect, the VPN client from the data-security app maker acquired by Facebook back in…
White House releases 2019 budget proposal, seeks funds for wall, military
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump released his second budget on Monday, seeking to bolster…
MoviePass cuts price by teaming up with Fandor on a bundled subscription deal
The controversial subscription service for movie-goers, MoviePass, is still chasing new customers as it attempts…
West Virginia policeman fired after refusing to shoot suspect settles suit
(Reuters) – A former police officer who said he was fired after not shooting a…
Google’s custom TPU machine learning accelerators are now available in beta
Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), the company’s custom chips for running machine learning workloads written…
Unilever warns social media to clean up “toxic” content
Consumer goods giant Unilever, a maker of branded soaps, foodstuffs and personal care items and…
U.S. singer Vic Damone dies at age 89, family says
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. singer Vic Damone, a crooner who found fame in the…
Billionaire investors Icahn and Deason write blog post slamming Xerox-Fuji deal
Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason are a couple of seasoned billionaire investors, who know a…
Simplified investing app Stash raises $37.5 million Series D as it heads into banking
Stash, the micro-investing app that’s been a hit with first-time investors, announced today it has…
Quit Genius, backed by Y Combinator, wants to help you quit smoking
Quitting smoking is one of the most difficult things a person can do. But despite…
XebiaLabs lands $100 million Series B led by Susquehanna Growth Equity and Accel
XebiaLabs, the Boston-based software startup that helps companies automate DevOps functions, announced a healthy $100…
nOCD gets $1M seed round to help people with obsessive-compulsive disorder
nOCD, an app created to help people treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, will launch an Android version…
Traeger’s wi-fi connected grill is delicious overkill
As a fan of both meat and fire, the Traeger Timberline 850 hits right in…
‘Alto’s Adventure’ sequel ‘Alto’s Odyssey’ launches on iOS on February 22
The “endless runner” genre of games seems inherently stress-generating to me, since it implies running,…
Former state Senator Jeremy Ring talks about the first days of Yahoo
In this episode of Technotopia I talk to Jeremy Ring, a former Florida state senator…
New project outfits Indonesia’s street vendors with free Wi-Fi and smart tech
Investors in Indonesia have started a new project aimed at digitizing the kiosk shops that…
Apple joins LG and Valve investing up to $10M in OLED display maker eMagin
Quietly, Apple has been bringing together a number of moving parts in its strategy around…