Living off the grid seems almost unbearably idyllic. You wake up in the morning to chill, clear air, step onto your porch with your coffee, and hear no other human beings — just the birds and the wildlife on your homestead. Your water basin, which...
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September 7, 2021 albert
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The reality of life postpartum and the images we see of it could not be further apart. But a new photo campaign by Australian leakproof apparel brand Modibodi and Getty Images hopes to bridge that gulf by showing what life in the 12-month post-birth period...
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September 6, 2021 albert
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In 2021, the average breach costs retailers, including those that conduct business online, $ 3.27 million, an almost 63 percent increase from the $ 2.01 million it would have cost in 2020. With the rising cost of data breaches, more e-commerce businesses are looking for...
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September 5, 2021 albert
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This is a story about the power of redemption. Everyone makes mistakes in life and sometimes those mistakes warrant blocking someone on Facebook. You’d better mean business, because when you block someone, your Facebook friendship is automatically ended. But if you are suddenly possessed by...
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September 4, 2021 albert
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Like so many things in 2021, Prime Video’s Cinderella is a bippity boppity bummer. With pop star Camila Cabello as the titular princess and the writer-producer behind the Pitch Perfect trilogy at the helm, you’d think Kay Cannon’s adaptation of this classic fairytale would be...
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September 3, 2021 albert
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First, some housekeeping: Thanks to our new corporate parents, TechCrunch has the day off tomorrow, so consider this the last chapter of The Exchange for this week. (The newsletter will go out Saturday as always.) Also, Alex is off next week. Anna is taking on...
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September 2, 2021 albert
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Philips Hue smart lightbulbs are getting better in a way that will make you wanna dance. On Wednesday, Signify — a Philips spinoff that manufactures lighting products — announced that Philips Hue lightbulbs are now integrated with Spotify. This includes an algorithm that analyzes the...
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September 1, 2021 albert
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Welcome to Fix It, our series examining projects we love — save for one tiny change we wish we could make. Mike Schur’s afterlife comedy, The Good Place, is an example of a show that didn’t always have a perfect execution, but it always had...
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August 31, 2021 albert
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Prive, a months-old, San Francisco-based startup founded by two former Uber product managers, just raised $ 1.7 million in pre-seed funding to create what it describes as a far more customizable e-commerce subscriptions platform for D2C brands. The round was co-led by Patrick Chung and...
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August 30, 2021 albert
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When Salesforce announced its streaming platform Salesforce+, the CRM Playaz’ Paul Greenberg and Brent Leary interviewed Colin Fleming, SVP of Global Brand Experiences at the CRM company (disclosure: I work at Salesforce). Later, I asked Brent about his show on this episode of the Gang....
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