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Music streaming site SoundCloud launched its premium music service, SoundCloud Go, in March of 2016, following sites such as Spotify, Pandora, and Apple Music. While the company has seen revenues grow, The Financial Times warns that the company could run out of cash by the end of the year unless it entices new investors.
the company has lost more money than it’s made
The company saw some growth following the launch of SoundCloud Go, but it comes after SoundCloud lost almost $52 million in

If you have three friends and you all need to get somewhere really quickly, perhaps the Bentley Continental Supersports is the car for you. It’s the fastest accelerating Bentley ever, and the fastest four-seat car ever built. 0-60 mph in 3.4 seconds and a top speed of 209 mph is enough to snap anyone’s head back, all thanks to a massive six-liter twin-turbo W12 engine that puts out 700 horsepower and 750 lb-ft of torque. There’s a convertible version, too, though removing the r

Waymo, the self-driving car startup spun-off from Google late last year, will be deploying its fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans onto public roads for the first time later this month, the company announced at the North American International Auto Show today.The minivans will be hitting the roads in Mountain View, California and Phoenix, Arizona, where the company’s self-driving Lexus SUVs have already driven thousands of miles over the past few years. Also today, Waymo gave

Waymo, the self-driving car startup spun-off from Google late last year, will be deploying its fleet of self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans onto public roads for the first time later this month, the company announced at the North American International Auto Show today.The minivans will be hitting the roads in Mountain View, California and Phoenix, Arizona, where the company’s self-driving Lexus SUVs have already driven thousands of miles over the past few years. Also today, Waymo gave

Today, Uber launched a new tool for mapping travel times, powered by the company’s vast store of ride data. Called Movement, the site allows users to measure travel times between various parts of a city, tracking how those trips get faster or slower over time. Currently only available to registered users, the site is scheduled to open to all users in the coming months.
Movement is designed particularly for city governments and urban planners, who often conduct detailed traffic studies when

Tesla is preparing to release the next version of its Autopilot software, according to a pair of tweets from Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In October, Tesla updated the self-driving hardware in its cars and, since then, buyers of new Teslas have been without the advanced self-driving features of Autopilot because the company was still working on the related software.Musk says the update will roll out to a 1000-car strong test fleet on Monday, with the rest of the Tesla fleet running the update in “

Earlier this week, Ford announced that it would be integrating Amazon’s Alexa into its vehicles. Now, Volkswagen has revealed that it too would be bringing the virtual assistant into its cars.Volkswagen announced the integration earlier this week at CES, which would allow drivers to operate the device from their car, and will connect with Volkswagen’s Car-Net functions. The company launched its Car-Net system in 2013, and it allows owners to connect to their car via a smartphone, all

Martin Shkreli’s Twitter account was suspended sometime early Sunday afternoon, following a period of targeted harassment against freelance reporter Lauren Duca.Update: In an email to The Verge, Twitter confirmed that the temporary suspension was related to the harassment of Duca, but would not give any further details and a spokesperson declined to be quoted directly.Duca has been in the news a lot lately after penning the essay “Trump is Gaslighting America” for Teen Vogue. I

Sleep Number unveiled its revamped smart bed line at CES this week, starting with its new 360 bed. The bed does a lot: it automatically adjusts to your sleep position to make you comfortable; it detects snoring and elevates your head to stop your snoring; it figures out how well you slept based off your heart rate, breathing, and your tossing and turning; and it’s also got foot warmers. The foot warmers, in my professional sleeper opinion, are the bed’s true star.The 360 has three la

The film Hidden Figures, released late last year, follows three under-recognized female mathematicians who helped NASA launch humanity into space in the 1960s. So in order to promote it, IBM and The New York Times Company are putting literally hidden figures all around the US, waiting to be discovered with your phone. Outthink Hidden, as the project is called, is an augmented reality app that’s supposed to help people learn about marginalized doctors, engineers, and scientists. It launched

Tonight, the entertainment industry’s awards season gets off to its proper, public-facing start with the 74th annual Golden Globes Awards. And while the show can often be more useful as a punching bag for its bizarre categories than as a useful measure of artistic achievement, that doesn’t mean it can’t be entertaining television — and that, my friends, is where we can help.
First things first. Who’s hosting this year?
That would be Mr. James Thomas “Jimmy&rdq

SpaceX’s first rocket launch since August has been pushed back to January 14th, due to rain and heavy winds that are expected near the launch site in California over the next week. Prior to the delay, SpaceX had been aiming to launch on January 9th, after receiving a launch license from the Federal Aviation Administration. On Friday, the FAA announced it had accepted SpaceX’s explanation for what caused one of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets to explode on a Florida launch pad.
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In December, Nokia announced that it would be returning to the smartphone market at some point in 2017 with a new Android handset. The company has confirmed that it will be releasing the Nokia 6 this year. The catch? It’s only available in China.
HMD Global, a Finnish company that was founded to develop phones under the Nokia brand name, noted in a press release that the phone will only be available in China through retailed JD.com, and that it will be available “in early 2017.&rdquo

Intel’s Project Alloy is an interesting experiment: a self-contained “merged reality” headset that mixes elements of real life into virtual reality. When we tried the first-generation prototype, though, it was in a very early state. Well, Intel is back with a new demo, and we’re still in the early days — but that’s still pretty exciting.
Intel says the Alloy headset at CES is its third generation, and it’s supposed to feature improved tracking, among oth

Donald Trump’s tweets are often the source of some ridicule. Last summer, Futurama voice actor Billy West dubbed a series of the President-elect’s more memorable tweets using the voice of his pompous D.O.O.P. General Zap Brannigan. Now, Mark Hamill is doing the same, using the voice of his iconic Joker from Batman: The Animated Series.Hamill posted up the soundbite yesterday, dubbing Trump’s tweet from December 31st, in which he wished a Happy New Year to his many enemies.
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Now that the 115th United States Congress has convened, Planned Parenthood is on the chopping block. On Thursday, Speaker Paul Ryan announced his plans to cut federal money to the organization, which provides preventative and reproductive healthcare to people of all genders and ages across the US. Planned Parenthood has promised to fight back — because a cut to its federal funds could be disastrous.“We’re definitely going to fight to stop it.”
“This pronouncement th

Retro-bit has been re-making classic consoles for many years now, and their latest is the Super Retro Boy. It’s designed to look and feel a lot like the original Nintendo Game Boy — and pretty much nails it. The prototype I played felt satisfyingly chunky and the plastic had a familiar texture to it. Of course, it’s not a straight design copy. For one, that would probably get lawyers involved. For another, a straight copy wouldn’t have the buttons and color screen that ma