A new bill heading to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk would halt issuing new permits to Bitcoin mining facilities within the state....
Pearpop debuted its new comedy series Finding Jericho last week on TikTok LIVE, making it the first pay-subscription show on the platform....
Autonomous taxis are officially a go in California, with Cruise scoring the first-ever commercial permit in the state....
Privacy advocates and researchers want to save your voice from fraud and non-consensual voice and medical monitoring....
With her exit from Meta, Sheryl Sandberg leaves an outsized (and controversial) legacy....
The Jonas Brothers are investing in a newly-launched subscription media startup dubbed Scriber....
Twitter is reportedly slowing down its ambitions in every feature, but its OG tweet stuff (and advertising, always advertising)....
Using passwords to log in to a website or bringing multiple forms of identification to renew a driver’s license may one day become a thing...
Spotify has become the unwitting home of a white-noise podcast boom — static, calming sounds to help people relax or sleep....
Networking groups on Slack are becoming one of the quickest ways to land a job in the increasingly-anonymous digital world....
Digital-music collectors are amassing libraries of hundreds of thousands of songs instead of relying on streaming platforms...
Cannabis-driven travel is on the rise, so cities and tourism agencies are meeting demand by offering curated experiences and information....
Through a new partnership with Intuition Robotics, New York state is taking care of its elderly by giving them a free robot dubbed the ElliQ....
Sony is ramping up investment into live-service games that continually update to provide new missions and experiences for players online....
Gucci must be raking in the virtual goods because the famous fashion brand planted a more permanent flag inside Roblox with the creation of “Gucci Town.”...
Delivery apps, which in recent years were seen as a nonstop growth engine, have fallen sharply in both reputation and revenue....
Top high school athletes around the country are inking six-figure and higher deals around their “name, image, and likeness” (NIL)....
Work-from-anywhere arrangements are creating a new boomtown era, where well-off white-collar workers are making their homestead in the reaches of the American midwest....
Authors are taking back their power by writing their adaptations themselves and joining the projects as producers....
Hotels are offering bookings as NFTs in a test to see if they can still make money on a room even if guests cancel at...
Top artists sound the alarm on the growing pressure they feel from their labels to go viral on TikTok....
A group of Senators are taking on Google and Meta with a bill that would break up their advertising businesses....
Niantic is debuting two new projects cementing its quest to be the glue for an AR metaverse....
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman believes social media has rewired how Gen Z lives....
Epic Games has prevailed in an injunction against the Google Play store....
Private equity (PE) firms are turning up at Cannes as it looks to the film and TV industry as the next investment goldmine....
Netflix is considering screening up to a dozen movies in theaters for about 45 days...
Ethereum's co-founder and public face, Vitalik Buterin, recently announced that he is developing an NFT...
Snap and Live Nation have partnered on a slate of AR features for music festivals....
After a few years of setbacks, Apple previewed its mixed reality headset to its corporate board....
Crypto, NFTs, the metaverse, and Web3 have become the hottest buzzwords in Cannes....
Startups all around the world are trying to bring a sense of smell to the metaverse....
Gen Z prefers apps that connect them with their best friends...
This year’s Avatar: The Way of Water is poised to bring back 3D into the mainstream. ...
TikTok is rolling out a new button for users to credit who inspired their content....
Anime is becoming one of the most popular Japanese cultural exports...
The EV industry is running out of gas, so to speak, unable to keep up with order demand....
Graduating high school seniors brought their college questions to TikTok, hoping to get some advice about where they should ultimately go....
Tom Brady is moving over to Fox Sports as its lead analyst when he finally retires....
Netflix is reportedly testing out a live-streaming feature that could transform engagement on its unscripted shows and comedy specials....
Coldplay plans to power their concerts (partly) with kinetic energy created by their fans dancing or riding stationary bikes....
Taipei-based fried-chicken restaurant ShiYun minted photos of its food as NFTs...
Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative, runs an associate product manager program that funnels budding tech talent into nonprofits that wouldn’t be able to afford them....
The money-generating token algorithm behind Luna and Terra has come crashing down, wiping out people’s investments and sending the entire crypto industry in a tailspin....
Americana Technologies wants to put real things (cars, bags, artwork) on the blockchain via insertable chips....
Feastables, the chocolate company founded by MrBeast, is riding on a sugar-high of success with $10 million in sales in just four months....
Disney's latest quarterly results show that the Mouse House’s streaming train can’t be stopped, adding millions of new subscribers....
Twitter has debuted a computer game that can educate users about how privacy works on the platform....
Dr. Seuss Enterprises (the controlling entity of the works of the late Theodor Seuss Geisel) may be exploring a sale....
OpenSea is rolling out new features to protect users from NFT scams and frauds....
A new fleet of budget airlines leverage low costs for popular routes....
SoleSavvy dropped its COLLECT sneaker marketplace for its members...
Hollywood is embracing the irreverent comedy, Gen Z slang, and creator-focused mentality of TikTok to promote projects....
California is starting to officially build a framework for crypto use in the state, charging several state agencies to hash out the details....
After years of holding back (mainly due to COVID), studios are set to crowd the marketplace with a big new blockbuster nearly every week this...
Instagram is rolling out an NFT test with a select number of creators, allowing them to post and share cryptoart across the platform. ...
Amazon released the IMDb What to Watch app to gamify users choosing what movie or show to watch....
“Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) platforms have made it more affordable for people to travel, and booking sites are more than happy to accommodate....
Funko, the lifestyle brand known for its pop-culture bobbleheads and other collectibles, recently scored a major investment from The Chernin Group and influential advisors such...
Wordle's is continuing its streak as the hottest puzzle game in the world, netting The New York times millions of new subscribers and potentially hundreds...
Video game streamers on Twitch, Youtube, and other platforms are burning out due to the demand of always-on streaming economics....
Cavneu is building smart roads to complement the growing wave of smart cars. ...
Zigazoo wants to help kids familiarize themselves with social media and NFT trading...
eBay is getting in on the secondhand-fashion craze by launching the Imperfects hub....
While Bitcoin still reigns supreme, the Ethereum and Solana blockchains are innovating what is possible on the blockchain with different methods and priorities....
Despite there being almost 8 billion people on Earth, the number of people who can reasonably sign up for major tech platforms is much, much...
TikTok has emerged as the most important platform for music marketing....
Despite the endless stream of new shows to watch, many audiences are going back to 90s sitcoms as a form of comfort viewing....
China is potentially reversing course on a year of endless tech regulations....
The Golden State Warriors are using the Chase Center app to track every data point imaginable about their fans....
Disney’s metaverse plans could reportedly be more Web3-centered....
The growth slowdown is not special to just film and TV streaming but to the entire attention-economy ecosystem at large....
Netflix may have lost two-thirds of its value last week, but that doesn’t mean it (or almost any service) is slowing down the streaming gravy train....
Snap announced a bevy of new camera-focused features and products including a drone called Pixy....
The E.U. is cracking down hard on Big Tech platforms, passing the Digital Services Act to regulate nearly every controversial aspect of how tech influences...
Concert ticket prices are soaring....
While the pandemic led to both financial hardship and job insecurity for many Americans, it also spurred the biggest rate in job growth in over...
Reddit is replenishing its Community Funds program with an additional $1 million....
The first home to allegedly go on sale with a duplicate in the metaverse just dropped in Beverly Hills....
Kevin Hart is merging his companies and taking on additional financing to form one giant funny-house, Hartbeat. ...
Mad Realities is bringing dating competitions to Web3 — and it’s already finding success with its first show, Proof of Love....
In Long Beach, California, a Bored Ape-holder opened up a full-fledged burger spot called Bored & Hungry, which provides perks for the entire BAYC community...
Nike and metaverse sneaker creator RTFKT Studios are dropping the first of Nike’s new line of CryptoKicks, the Dunk Genesis....
The neighborhood of Whisper Valley in Austin, Texas, is gearing up to be the largest development in the world to use a geothermal energy system....
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase wants you to show off your NFTs with its new trading platform, Coinbase NFT....
Welcome to the new boundaryless social media world, where users are using LinkedIn to find romantic partners and Tinder to sell products....
Amazon is rolling out a Buy With Prime button for merchants that use the e-commerce giant’s warehouse and delivery services, Fulfillment by Amazon....
TikTok has signed up so many users and has become the go-to social strategy for so many labels and brands that less is seemingly breaking...
Gen Z is always blowing up their Screen Time… but on different screens at different parts of the day....
Snoop Dogg is creating a streaming platform exclusively for his label, Death Row Records.....
After reporting its first subscriber loss in a decade, Netflix announced that it plans to offer an ad-supported tier in the near future....
The pandemic hit hotels especially hard, but now they’re making a comeback in equal measure....
Tom Brady’s NFT startup Autograph is stepping up its game....
One-hit wonders are a phenomenon that have been around forever....
Wealthy tech entrepreneurs and investors around the world are pouring money into age-reversal programs....
As global investment in hydrogen power picks up, Toyota is selling more models of its hydrogen-powered car, the Mirai, than ever before....
Reforestation efforts are testing out drones that can aerially reseed miles of woods charred by devastating wildfires....
Paris Hilton joined forces with Neon Carnival to host the party in the metaverse....
