When it comes to banking, millennials are an anomaly. The Venmo generation doesn’t visit bank branches, write checks, or even use credit cards. By one…
ATTENTION SHOPPERS
Self-driving shopping carts could be coming to Walmart
Don’t say Walmart hasn’t been an innovator. It’s mastered the retail market, managing massive profits while keeping prices low. Next up: self-driving shopping carts? A…
OFF THE CHAIN
Goldman Sachs wants to put foreign exchange trades on the blockchain
Trading currencies is costly and slow for traders at major financial institutions—transactions need to go through a bunch of middle men, each of which take…
Soon you’ll Venmo stores to buy things
Venmo, the adored millennial app that lets friends send money to each other, wants people to start using it to pay for purchases in stores.…
7 ON 7
Everything Apple just launched at today’s massive event
At a packed Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco today (Sept. 7), Apple announced its latest array mobile devices, including two new iPhones, an…
IT'S ME, MARIO
Nintendo’s stock is soaring after it announces Super Mario for the iPhone
Nintendo’s ADRs rose more than 20% after the company announced it will be making a new Mario game for iOS at today’s Apple event. Shigeru…
ANOTHER ONE
Hackers just leaked a new batch of 100 million email addresses and passwords
Another day, another massive cyber attack. This time, it’s from Rambler, a Russian website and email service that’s essentially a version of Yahoo. The hack…
HI SCHOOLERS
Facebook’s newest app makes it shockingly easy to stalk high schoolers
Facebook’s newest app made it really easy for us to pretend to be high schoolers. Last week, Facebook launched a new app, called Lifestage, which…
TRUE STORY
As Ryan Lochte’s potentially fake mugging grips Rio, a real robbery has an Australian in hot water
American swimmer Ryan Lochte may have made up a story about getting robbed in Rio, but an Australian swimmer who actually did get mugged there…
Now anyone can access NASA-funded research
NASA has a new gift for space junkies. The US space agency has announced that it will be archiving research data at a web portal…
JUST THE FACTS
Scientific American slams Donald Trump’s anti-science rhetoric in a rare op-ed
It’s not just disillusioned Republican lawmakers who are coming out against Donald Trump. Scientific American, the popular science magazine, has published an op-ed denouncing the…
NO TOUCHING
Kanye West’s pop up shop is buy-but-don’t-touch—and fans can’t get enough
“You break it, you buy it,” is a sign that appears in many stores in America. At Kanye West’s temporary shops, it’s more like “you…
