Iggy Azalea Says She’s Taking A Break From Music For ‘A Few Years’
www.huffpost.com The 31-year-old, who was recently accused of “Blackfishing,” tweeted that she’d be pursuing “other creative projects” after her album “End of an Era” drops next month. … Read More
Photo Of ‘French Dispatch’ Cast At Cannes Becomes Award-Worthy Meme
www.huffpost.com A striking photo of Timothée Chalamet, Wes Anderson, Tilda Swinton and Bill Murray — and their fashion choices — made Twitter’s imagination run wild. … Read More
In an increasingly hot biotech market, protecting IP is key
www.techcrunch.com After a record year for biotech investment in 2020 — during which the industry saw $28.5 billion invested across 1,073 deals — the market for new innovations remains strong. What’s more, these innovations are increasingly coming to market by way of early-stage startups and/or their scientific founders from academia.
Extra Crunch roundup: Think like a VC, CockroachDB EC-1, handle your stock options
www.techcrunch.com Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed database architecture, you can imagine why “Cockroach Labs” was the final candidate. … Read More
Virgin Galactic president Mike Moses on what’s next for the company’s growing fleet
www.techcrunch.com This last weekend featured the much-ballyhooed launch of Virgin Galactic’s first (nonpaying) passengers, with founder and CEO Richard Branson along for the ride. After the festivities, I had the chance to talk with the company’s president, Mike Moses, who seems to be familiar with every detail of the operation
US Air Force to send dozens of F-22 fighter jets to the Pacific amid tensions with China
www.cnn.com US Air Force to send dozens of F-22 fighter jets to the Pacific amid tensions with China… Read More
Digital lending platform Blend valued at over $4B in its public debut
www.techcrunch.com Mortgages may not be considered sexy, but they are a big business. … Read More
Visualping raises $6M to make its website change monitoring service smarter
www.techcrunch.com Visualping, a service that can help you monitor websites for changes like price drops or other updates, announced that it has raised a $6 million extension to the $2 million seed round it announced earlier this year. The round was led by Seattle-based FUSE, a relatively new firm with
Save $1,000 on a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, plus more laptop deals this weekend
www.mashable.com OUR TOP PICK: Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 — save $329.01 BEST LENOVO DEAL: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 8 — save $1,219.60 BEST GAMING DEAL: Razer Blade 15 — save $601.86 BEST 2-IN-1 DEAL: Asus Chromebook Flip C434 — save $135.99 What’s better than a great laptop? A great
Tumblr’s parent company is buying popular podcast app Pocket Casts
www.techcrunch.com will soon have a new home. Automattic, the parent company of Tumblr and WordPress.com, is buying the podcast app from a collective of public radio groups, including and . Automattic didn’t disclose how much it will pay for Pocket Casts. … Read More


