After expanding into new verticals like books and games, Product Hunt is launching daily Q&A’s with makers.
Product Hunt is about to borrow a page from Reddit’s playbook as the influential product recommendation site is set to launch its own take on the “Ask Me Anything” Q&A format long embraced by Reddit and its various high-profile guests.
American inventors have turned to crowdfunding as they prepare for a robot duel with Japanese company Suidobashi Heavy Industry.
MegaBots, Inc., a team of American engineers who last month challenged Japan’s Suidobashi Heavy Industry to a robot duel, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to build its battle bot.
Fig will have advisers to help indie games come to market. And you can get not only backing rewards, but investment royalties.
The new crowdfunding site Fig, which launched today, is focused on helping indie game developers bring projects to fruition—but it’s offering a lot more to potential investors than just free games and T-shirts. It wants to give you the chance to invest in games directly for royalties.
Folded pizza slices, Citi Bike woes, subway sweating—all present and accounted for, and free for you to use for non-commercial purposes.
Stock photos are the Internet’s blank canvas. Those picture-perfect moments of the job and life nobody really has (portrait of African woman holding daisies! family having a meal in the countryside!) have been overhauled to embrace a more diverse depiction of women, co-opted by Vince Vaughn to plug a movie, and transformed into posters for Oscar-nominated films.
The companies will collaborate on TV content, movies, and Olympics coverage.
NBCUniversal has made a $200 million equity investment in BuzzFeed, the companies announced on Tuesday. “We look forward to collaborating on television content, movies, the Olympics, and joint partnerships with ad agencies and brands,” said BuzzFeed executive chairman Kenneth Lerer in a statement.
*Almost bearable.
Presidential hopeful and Twitter hothead Donald Trump has a way of doling out his delusions of grandeur, vitriolic political sludge, and misogynistic overtones in 140 characters or less that makes for some of the most unpalatable quips the Internet has ever endured.
Bitcoin’s developers are at odds over its future. But a clear path forward has already been charted.
On Saturday, Mike Hearn, a key developer of Bitcoin software, posted a blunt essay on Medium explaining why the cryptographic currency’s underlying open-source core software is now proceeding along two separate development paths, or forks. As with everything related to Bitcoin, the move is part software, part ideology, part political wrangling, and part finance. In this case, a low-level plumbing issue was threatening to burble up and swamp the network’s ability to function unless a change was made. Disagreements over the timing and type of change had stalled resolution.
A trade union’s lead officer says Amazon employees face pressure to be “an above-average Amazon robot all the time.”
In the wake of a scathing exposéof Amazon’s workplace culture published by the New York Times this weekend, a British trade union is claiming that employees at the e-commerce giant’s U.K. distribution centers are becoming mentally and physically ill due to difficult working conditions.
At $200, OnHub is wireless, simple, and actually beautiful.
Google just announced in a blog post that it’s entering the Wi-Fi router business with its own version of what used to be the most universally hated part of connecting to the Internet.
With falling sales and legal troubles, the clothing retailer doesn’t have enough cash on hand to make its debt payments.
American Apparel appears to be on the brink of bankruptcy, according to a regulatory filing from the company.
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