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ProtonMail Launches A Shorter Email Domain And Other New Features For Encryption Lovers
An encrypted email service widely used among journalists and political dissidents just got several new sick features, including, let’s be honest, the only thing we really care about: a shorter domain name.
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Uber Begins Pilot Program Shuttling People Recovering From Opioid Addiction To Treatment
Uber is partnering with US charity Goodwill to offer free rides to Virginians recovering from opioid addiction. Announced Friday, Goodwill, Uber and Chesterfield County officials are launching a small pilot program to help those in need, offering them free rides to treatment.
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Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop Just Raised Gobs Of Money To Peddle Pseudoscience
There is good money in pseudoscience. At least, we assume that’s why Lightspeed Venture Partners just led a $US50 ($65) million Series C funding round that values Gwyneth Paltrow’s sex-dust smoothie-pushing lifestyle brand, Goop, at an estimated of $US250 ($326) million. The funding round was reported by PitchBook.
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This Could Be The Greatest Drone-Powered iPhone Heist Ever
The future is here, and it’s cool as shit if you love heist movies. In the most incredible gang operation gone wrong of 2018, smartphone smugglers in China were busted by customs officers in Shenzhen, but not before moving 500 million yuan ($104 million) worth of stolen smartphones, and using drones to pull it off.