The death of cable TV has been slow and agonizing, but as the patient bleeds out on the operating table, both consumers and media companies have batted around an intriguing idea: What if we just did cable TV again? Wow, what an idea That was the dream of Venu (as in “venue,” not “Venus”), a Disney, Fox,…
TGI Fridays has a case of the Mondays: The once-popular hotspot for hookups and loaded potato skins filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection over the weekend. Executive chairman Rohit Manocha blamed it on the company’s inability to bounce back financially from the Covid-19 pandemic. All 39 US locations owned by the company will remain open during the…
The fertility business touches ~100k US births every year. It’s not without its issues, though. Egg freezing is most effective when completed under age 30, but younger women are less likely to be able to afford the costly process. Once a woman can afford to freeze her eggs, it’s sometimes too late. Plus, some women dealing with infertility…
Nintendo’s new Alarmo, a video game-inspired alarm clock that wakes you up with Super Mario music, has already reached the ultimate evolutionary step of all tech gadgets: It can run “Doom.” Youtuber GaryOderNichts figured out how to load the iconic 1993 first-person shooter (in which your character slaughters hordes of demons with shotguns and chain saws) onto…