Equity podcast: Uber’s board mess, the Angry Birds IPO, and MongoDB files to go public Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s running attempt to make venture capital cool, despite the best efforts of the industry in question to fight back. Each week Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley, and myself — Alex Wilhelm — try to de-obfuscate the …
Best Amazon Prime TV shows (August 2017): 50 great series on Amazon Prime Video Best shows on Amazon Prime UPDATE: We’ve added two new TV series to our best shows on Amazon Prime Video selection. One is a creative and crazy satire of American buddy cop shows and Cold War communist Propaganda, Comrade Detective, while the …
What a Border Collie Taught a Linguist About Language Tansy was not into sports. The little border collie, a rescue, didn’t care for agility trials or flyball. But her adopted family—with two other border collies already in the house—did them all the time. Border collies are working dogs, the elite athletes of the canine universe. They …
EFF warns blocking neo-Nazi sites may threaten free speech The Daily Stormer has long espoused racist, anti-feminist and antisemitic views, including Holocaust denial. GoDaddy only elected to drop its name registry recently, however, after it published an offensive article about Heather Heyer, who was killed during violent protests at Charlottesville. The site then shifted to Google’s …
Instagram adds a new creative way to reply to a photo or story Instagram inception, here we come. If somebody sends you a photo or video in a private conversation on Instagram, the app will now let you play around with the original photo so that you can reply in a creative way and keep the …
Best movies on Amazon Prime (August 2017): over 100 films to stream on Prime Video Best movies on Amazon Prime Update: There are some new additions to our best Amazon movies this week! If you’re looking for something on the factual or biographical side, Pawn Sacrifice and documentary Dark Days are great options. There’s also plenty …
The Overlooked Heroes Who Lead Climbers Up Everest More than 600 people climb Mount Everest every year, and not one of them could do it without an army of Sherpas, porters, and others guiding them every step of the way. Steve Brown celebrates these people in The Business of Everest. Some have climbed the world’s tallest …
Best horror movies: fantastic films to stream or buy in 2017 There’s nothing better than watching a decent horror movie. A horror movie that forces you to sleep with the light on after watching it. No Amazon or Netflix? Then buy the Blu-ray A horror movie that latches onto your deepest, primal fears, pokes and prods …