What Happened To 7 Of The Earliest Employees Who Launched Amazon
admin Amazon Inc. Jeff Bezos’ official Amazon portrait. When Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie started driving northwest from New York in 1994, they were setting off on a journey to…
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The New York Attorney General Is Going After Airbnb For What It Calls ‘Illegal Hotels’
Getty Images/Bloomberg Airbnb co-founder, CEO Brian Chesky The New York Attorney General’s office filed legal paperwork on Friday to compel Airbnb to turn over names of some of its users.…
Here’s How To Opt Out Of Those Annoying Targeted Ads In Your Gmail
Targeted ads can be extremely distracting, not least of which because they’re a reminder that the big G is scanning your email. You can’t stop it from doing that, and…
Nike Has Fired Most Of Its FuelBand Team And Will Stop Making Wearable Devices
Screenshot There have been rumors that Nike will stop making its FuelBand wearable device, and now it looks like the rumors have come true. A person familiar with Nike’s plans…
A 108-Year-Old S.F. Earthquake Survivor Offers A Pretty Accurate Description Of The Silicon Valley
Hoodline interviewed one of only two people who survived the 1906 earthquake. His name is Bill Del Monte, and he now lives north of the city, in Marin. The whole…
These Scientists Used Fire To Accompany Their Music, And It’s Beautiful
Yay for science. A Rubens’ tube is a pipe with holes in it. You put a flammable gas through the pipe, and then light it on fire. Kind of like…
TaskRabbit Will Let You Spend Half An Hour With A Bunny Today
Flickr / Wade Simmons Seems like Uber started a (dangerously cute) trend last fall when it celebrated National Cat day by delivering people kittens to cuddle with for 15 minutes.…
This Futuristic Looking 3D-Printed Cast Could Finally Make Having A Broken Arm Look Cool
A’Design Award and Competition While your friends may not be able to sign this cast, it sure looks a huge improvement on the old one. This new 3D-printed alternative kind…
Watch Elon Musk’s Reusable Rocket Launch And Land Itself In This Amazing Video Shot By A Drone
Screenshot / YouTube Elon Musk’s private space company, SpaceX, has been experimenting with reusable rockets since last year. Because the cost of fuel is much less compared to the cost…
Singer Lawsuit Is Tied To Marc Collins-Rector, Infamous Child Abuser Of The Dot-Com Boom
Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images Bryan Singer For people who lived the through the dot-com collapse of the late 1990s, the name Marc Collins-Rector carries a special horror. Not only was…