There’s no denying it, this has been a brilliant week for fibre broadband deals. We don’t say that lightly – we see a lot of great broadband deals come and go. But this week we’ve seen offers stuffed with freebies, big broadband and TV deals cut in price and the UK’s cheapest widely available fibre …

Spotify doubled down on podcasts last week with a double deal to buy podcast networks Gimlet and Anchor. Those acquisitions were initially undisclosed, but Spotify has quietly confirmed that it spent €300 million, just shy of $340 million, to capture the companies. That’s according to an SEC filing — hat tip Recode’s Peter Kafka — which reveals that …

NYC and Boston were handed huge setbacks this week when Amazon and GE decided to bail on their commitments to build headquarters in the respective cities on the same day. But it’s worth pointing out that while these large tech organizations were pulling out, Google was expanding in both locations. Yesterday upon hearing about Amazon’s decision …

In his new book Somewhere Along the Line, Joshua Dudley Greer documents the US interstate system. This image was captured near Interstate 79 in Elkview, West Virginia, after a series of floods had passed through the area. Greer spent a total of seven years traversing 100,000 miles along US highways. “Much of my research and …

di Gabriella Lax – Le mamme potranno andare prima in pensione. È questo uno degli emendamenti presentati dalla maggioranza sulla riforma delle … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

A ripple effect is a situation in which, like ripples expanding across the water when an object is dropped into it, an effect from an initial state can be followed outwards incrementally (source Medium)

Fallout: New Vegas developer Obsidian Entertainment and publisher Private Division officially announced new single-player sci-fi RPG The Outer Worlds at The Game Awards 2018.  Set on the frontier of space, The Outer Worlds sees you awakening from hibernation amidst a conspiracy to destroy Halycon – a colony residing at the edge of the galaxy  driven …

Spotify doubled down on podcasts last week with a double deal to buy podcast networks Gimlet and Anchor. Those acquisitions were initially undisclosed, but Spotify has quietly confirmed that it spent €300 million, just shy of $340 million, to capture the companies. That’s according to an SEC filing — hat tip Recode’s Peter Kafka — which reveals that …

Rivian, the electric automaker that debut its first two vehicles just three months ago, has raised $700 million in a round led by Amazon. The news follows a report earlier this week by Reuters that GM and Amazon were in talks to invest in the electric vehicle company. “We’re inspired by Rivian’s vision for the …