Slack has apologized after it shut down the accounts of users who have visited Iran following a poorly executed effort at complying with U.S. sanctions…
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Japanese retailer Start Today, which operates Zozotown, the country’s largest online fashion marketplace, has developed a figure-hugging bodysuit featuring lots of uniquely patterned dots. As…
Artist depiction of loop quantum gravity effects in a black hole. The bottom half of the image depicts the black hole which, according to general…
Convo, a tool perhaps best described as a real-time company message board, picked up a new trick this week: automated acknowledgements. It’s a pretty common…
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The story of the game Star Citizen and Cloud Imperium, the company developing it, is almost too ludicrous to believe: a crowdfunding effort to create…
Chatty gamers are apparently worth billions. Discord, the gaming chat startup with more than 200 million active users, announced Friday that it had secured $150…
If you thought Capitol Hill spent the entire week locked in a battle over government funding, you’re right. But spending packages aside, lawmakers managed to…
A lot can happen in a year. In 2018, the bitcoin bubble popped (again), tensions between the U.S. and China boiled over into a trade…
A government shutdown over Christmas and New Year’s is not certain, but federal contractors need to have preparations in place to weather what could be…
If there is one term that has punctuated government contracting in 2018, it is “OTA.” The use of OTAs or “other transaction authority” agreements has…
Fresh off an order from the Defense Department’s then-chief information officer to migrate “fourth estate” data and applications to milCloud 2.0, the Pentagon has successfully…
My podcasting rig is simple: Two microphones, a Tascam recorder, two XLR cables. I’ve upgraded things a bit in the past year — improved the…
Florida men are seemingly involved in so many strange happenings involving pythons, alligators, and restaurant break-ins that when a parody “Florida Man” Twitter account surfaced back in…
While more than 60 companies have received permits to test their driverless vehicles in California, Zoox has become the first permitted to actually transport people…
Bellabeat, the company behind a variety of health and wellness wearable devices aimed at women, is now selling its first smartwatch. The device, which is…
No phones for the sans-culottes? It’s an interesting strategy Comment People participating in the so-called gilets jaunes* populist protests in France looted an Apple Store…
The launch of the Amazon Echo and its voice service, Alexa, brought virtual assistants out of our smartphones and into our homes and offices. While…
The Securities and Exchange Commission appears to be keeping a close eye on financial services startups, with today’s news that the agency has settled cases…
Meet Spot, a beautifully-designed mobile app to control your cryptocurrencies. Spot looks like a portfolio tracking app. But the company has built a strong foundation…