The Smashing Pumpkins played a pre-Lollapalooza show in Chicago recently, and brought out their former bassist Melissa Auf der Maur and The Brady Bunch’s Barry Williams as special guests. The gig took place on Wednesday night (July 29), as the ‘90s alt icons took to the stage at Riviera Theatre ahead of their set at…
It was in the middle of the pandemic that I ceased stashing sparkling wine. There were no special occasions, or occasions at all, really, save for daily episodes of the BBC’s Baby Club with two cabin-fevered infants and the weekly thrill of a veg box. I might have been stockpiling chickpeas, but I was cracking…
Shorouk Express Hungary’s rejection came hours before a dinner between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever in Brussels to discuss the loan. Merz said he was planning to use the event to bring De Wever on board. “I take the concerns and objections of the Belgian prime minister very seriously,”…
In a nutshell: Despite a convoluted history of bankruptcies, acquisitions, and failed business relaunches, the Commodore brand hasn’t disappeared… yet. A new community-led company is now steering the brand and is attempting to attract Windows 10 users who want to avoid relying on Microsoft’s software ecosystem. Microsoft ended official support for Windows 10 on October…
Goldman Sachs has agreed to acquire Industry Ventures, a 25-year-old, San Francisco-based investment firm with $7 billion in assets under management, CNBC was first to report on Monday. The deal underscores the growing importance of secondary markets and buyouts as traditional venture exits remain sluggish. The investment bank is paying $665 million in cash and…
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR F-Droid has warned that Google’s new developer verification rules could effectively kill alternative Android app stores. The platform says that Google’s rules are monopolistic and harmful to competition as well as user freedom. F-Droid says the new rules would make Google the gatekeeper of all Android apps, but Google…
As much as we enjoy modern phone designs, there is one trend many of us wish wasn’t going away. Sadly, phones with a removable battery are a dying breed, and our options are getting very, very limited in this niche market. Phones with removable batteries are very convenient in a few ways. For starters, it…
Paying with a handwave once sounded like science fiction, but contactless palm recognition service Amazon One has already been used more than 8 million times, according to the company. That’s Amazon, though, which explains why it has been deployed in Amazon stores and more than 500 Whole Foods Market stores in the U.S., but only…
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Boox, the maker of some of the best ereaders and E Ink writing tablets, has just announced its first ever color PC monitor. Called the Boox Mira Pro, it uses a 25.3-inch E Ink Kaleido 3 display that emulates the look of paper – a screen technology that’s already in use in several popular ereaders,…
