Beast Industries, owned by YouTuber Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson, announced on Monday that it has acquired Step, a banking app designed for teens and young adults. The move comes a couple of months after Donaldson announced plans to start a new…
YouTube megastar MrBeast announced on Monday that his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app. Step, which raised half a billion in funding and has grown to over 7 million users, offers financial services geared toward Gen…
While testing printers usually isn’t that exciting, sometimes I find an offering that’s almost too good to be true. You can scoop up our favorite printer, the Epson ET-2980, from Best Buy for just $220, a $100 markdown from the…
Cognitive training could arm the brain against the effects of dementia Gary Burchell/Getty Images Cognitive “speed training” can reduce the risk of a dementia diagnosis by 25 per cent – that’s according to results from the world’s first randomised controlled…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Archaeologists have spent years puzzling over evidence of severed head rituals among Iron Age communities in the northeast Iberian Peninsula. Multiple groups of the…
Scientists at the University of Cambridge, working with international collaborators, have identified a crucial process that shapes how DNA behaves as it moves through nanoscale pores. This process is fundamental to many biological activities and to fast-growing DNA sensing technologies….
At this point, you can find discounts on AirTags fairly often but if you want to spend as little as possible, it’s worth waiting for a discount like this. A four-pack of the first-gen Bluetooth trackers is on sale for…
Live Nation executives have reportedly sidestepped the Justice Department’s antitrust division to negotiate directly with more sympathetic senior officials in the hopes of avoiding a monopoly trial. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” Semafor reports that some talks have excluded…
Just in time to create a new Super Bowl ad, Crypto.com founder Kris Marszalek has made the priciest domain purchase in history, buying AI.com for $70 million, according to the Financial Times. The deal, paid entirely in cryptocurrency to an…
Jim Lockhart, from Boston: Did you travel to get here today? Yeah, we came in early on Friday morning. Planes, trains, and automobiles from Logan Airport. And where are you staying? The Intercontinental, right in San Fran, downtown. Beautiful. I’m…
You may feel like you’ve missed out on a stock if it’s done particularly well. But you shouldn’t necessarily take a pass, nor should you jump to buy merely because of past success. An outsize stock price gain means a…
Running Point returned for season 2 and dedicated the newest installment to Niko Mijailovic. Episode three of the hit Netflix series featured a tribute card for Mijailovic, which read, “In Loving Memory of #6 Niko Mijailovic.” Mijailovic was a varsity…
The US State Department’s Africa bureau strongly condemned the attacks, adding: “We extend our deepest condolences to the victims, their families, and all those affected, and we stand with the Malian people and government in the face of this violence.”…
