Bird is reportedly taking its electric scooter company public via SPAC
Bird, the electric scooter company that helped launch the global micromobility boom, is planning to go public via a reverse merger with a special acquisition company, or SPAC, according to…
25 Edits That Define the Modern Internet Video
Photo-Illustration: by Vulture; @contrachloe; @donte.colley, @chaeyeonbot They say good editing goes unnoticed. Online, it goes viral. It’s clear in the best internet videos: Editing defines the aesthetic, humor, and power…
State attorneys general pressure Facebook to abandon plans for children’s Instagram
In an open letter today, the National Association of Attorneys General called on Facebook to abandon plans for an Instagram platform focused on children under the age of 13. The…
YouTube has run the numbers to see how vloggers open their videos
YouTube has run the numbers and discovered what greeting its vloggers most use to open videos: “Hey, guys.” Those findings may not be surprising if you’ve watched a lot of…
Nebula’s Got Gamora on the Brain in an Exclusive Marvel Book Excerpt
A crop of the cover to Gamora and Nebula: Sisters at Arms by Mackenzi Lee.Image: Disney Books The daughters of Thanos are in a race to retrieve the heart of…
Microsoft Excel can do almost anything with numbers. This training can make it run on its own
TLDR: The pair of courses go deep into Excel training for numbers-centric professionals, including how to customize and automate Excel to do statistical gruntwork all on its own. No true…
What would a car from IKEA look like? Something like this
Naturally, when you think of IKEA you think of all those hours of “engineering” while trying to assemble your new wardrobe. Well now, thanks to college student Ryan Schlotthauer you’ll…
Holy sheet: How to turn Google Sheets into an RSS reader
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. In our Holy Sheet…
Why companies must be critical of workplace surveillance practices
With so many more people working from home during the pandemic, employers have stepped up the extent to which they are monitoring them online. Not so many years ago, employees…
Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti could be modded to have double the VRAM of RTX 3080 Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
Nvidia’s RTX 2080 Ti graphics card could theoretically support 22GB of video RAM, or at least that’s the claim which comes from a well-known Russian hardware modder. VIK-on recently made…