Yet another company wants to help make sense of streaming with a single menu that covers lots of different video services. This time it’s Plex, which started off as a media server application but has since branched out with its own library of free movies, shows, and live channels. A new version of the Plex app on phones, computers, and streaming devices allows you to look up stuff to watch, create a universal watch list, and jump directly into a movie or show regardless of which streaming
Fitness company Peloton announced Tuesday the launch of its most inexpensive offering yet: a $295 device called Peloton Guide, aimed at helping people improve their form during its workout classes. For the nearly one million people who subscribe to Peloton’s fitness classes and don’t own its equipment, the Guide could give them a reason to further invest in the platform. The Peloton Guide’s camera—a small grey device wrapped in fabric with a 12.3 megapixel camera and
In a world where Bitcoin and GameStop stocks are rising and falling at a dizzying rate, it’s harder than ever for novice investors to figure out where to put their money—and in many cases, that’s keeping them out of the market entirely. David Hegarty, founder and CEO of Playbook, hopes to change that. The company that has since its launch in July 2021 helped millennials save money on their taxes is now expanding its offerings with a new service that aims to help the TikTok g
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the Congressional Oversight Committee have sent a letter to Amazon CEO Adam Jassy informing him they are investigating whether Amazon forces employees to work during dangerous weather events. In the letter, the Congressional Oversight Committee committee expresses concern over recent and past reports that Amazon employees and contractors are threatened with job loss if they seek shelter during extreme weather conditions. Specifically, the letter poin
Five years ago, Dyson proved that it was more than a high-tech vacuum company when it revolutionized the hair-care industry with the launch of two products: the Supersonic, a quiet hair dryer, and the Airwrap, a styler. Both use less heat than traditional products and are engineered to prevent hair damage, relying instead on the Coanda effect, a phenomenon that happens when a high-speed jet of air flows across a surface and, due to differences in pressure, the air flow attaches itself to the sur
Hear the words nonfungible token and you’ll probably think of a computer or smartphone screen. But the creators of a new NFT trading platform have a different vision: They want you to spend more time outside. Outside Interactive—the Boulder-based parent company of outdoors and healthy-living-focused media brands including Outside magazine, Vegetarian Times, and the ski film production company Warren Miller—announced on Monday that it’s launching an NFT marketplac
Diet can be just as important—if not more so—than medicine in improving health outcomes. The trouble is getting healthy food on people’s plates. A new generation of startups are working to improve that access. One of them, Season Health, announced today it raised $34 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Other investors include LRV Health and Company Ventures. Season had previously raised $11 million in seed funding. Season, which launched earlier this year
It’s been a banner couple of weeks for the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club, the most-valued NFT project on the market, Yuga Labs. It acquired Larva Labs’s blue chip NFT projects CryptoPunks and Meebits. Yuga also announced a $450 million funding round that values the company at $4 billion. As part of that announcement, Yuga unveiled Otherside, its metaverse project that aspires to bridge the worlds of the various characters under its aegis. If all that wasn’t enough,
Twice a month, Janelle Barrera, a researcher for telehealth startup Doxy.me, rearranges her living room furniture; sofas to one side, coffee table to the other, “so I have enough space to play in,” she explains. She does a few shoulder stretches to warm up, then dons her Oculus Quest 2: it’s paintball time! In Rec Room, a social VR hangout space, Barrera ducks behind a boulder as she dodges a bullet, reloads, then pops up and fires, hoping to splatter her teammates, all fell
If you’re sitting on a pile of old phones, tablets, or computers, now is the best time to sell them for cash. Technically, this is always true, because used electronics depreciate in value over time. But refurbishers say the ongoing chip shortage has increased the value of certain hard-to-find electronics, particularly iPads and Apple Watches, raising the price they’ll pay even for older models. Meanwhile, the electronics buyback market is gradually becoming more competitive for bu