Year to year, we see our readers’ travel practices shift, as some destinations suddenly explode in appeal (hey there, Portugal and Iceland) and others experience a cooling, possibly due to geopolitical events or an unfavorable exchange rate. And this, of course, drips down into our World’s Best outcomes, particularly when …
Read More »Avengers 4 Trailer Officially Released
Marvel has released the very first trailer for Avengers 4 online. The trailer is viewable in the video above after months of anticipation and speculation concerning its arrival. The movie will be a direct follow up to Avengers: Infinity War, which ended on a climactic cliffhanger leaving fans begging …
Read More »The New Vivo Nex Phone Offers a Secondary Display Instead of a Notch
Vivo doesn’t get a lot of attention outside of China, but it turned heads in early 2018 when it showed off the all-screen Apex prototype. That phone went on to become the Nex, and there’s already a follow-up. Like the original Nex, the new phone has almost no bezel …
Read More »Changing consumer behavior is the key to unlocking billion-dollar businesses
In the summer of 2012, I had just learned of a new service where a driver would pick you up in their own car, not a taxi or licensed town car. You’d be able to recognize the car by the pink mustache strapped to the front. I quickly downloaded the …
Read More »TNB Aura closes $22.7M fund to bring PE-style investing to Southeast Asia’s startups
TNB Aura, a recent arrival to Southeast Asia’s VC scene, announced today that it has closed a maiden fund at SG$31.1million, or around US$22.65 million, to bring a more private equity-like approach to investing in startups in the region. The fund was launched in 2016 and it is a joint effort …
Read More »Tips for Cardboard Recycling this Holiday Season
The holiday shopping season is here alongside a barrage of cardboard packages arriving at the door. Between ordering gifts for the holidays and treating yourself to some sweet seasonal online discounts, many households are bound to receive an awful lot of packages around this time of year. Anxiously awaiting your …
Read More »How to Become a Millionaire… AFTER Retirement…
How to become a millionaire? Increase your wealth? AFTER retirement? Um… No way you might say. So many retirement articles talk about how to make ends meet in retirement. And, most of us are indeed worried about running out of money and ask: “Will my savings really last as …
Read More »Super Micro Says No Evidence of Chinese Spy Chips in Servers
Several large technology firms were put on the defensive earlier this year when Bloomberg published a blockbuster piece that claimed Chinese authorities had snuck spy chips into servers used by Amazon, Apple, and others. The companies cited in the report strenuously denied they had ever found spy chips in their …
Read More »Intel Details Its Upcoming Sunny Cove CPU Architecture
For most of 2018, it’s felt as though all the energy in the CPU market was coming from AMD‘s side of the equation. While multiple companies have been affected by issues with Spectre and Meltdown, Intel took the brunt of those impacts. It’s also weathered a major 10nm delay (again) …
Read More »Intel Uses New Foveros 3D Chip-Stacking to Build Core, Atom on Same Silicon
3D chip stacking has long held promise as a meaningful method of advancing silicon performance, but progress in the field has been slow, to say the least. For one thing, CPUs have a nasty tendency to overheat if you stack cores on top of them. Validation has also been a …
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