At a time with more scripted television than ever, how long does it take to finish a season of a show? According to Netflix, not much time at all. Subscribers who finish the first season of a show generally do so in a week, Netflix says. And those viewers are dedicating a significant amount of […]
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is continuing to defend his decision not to correct a questioner at a recent town hall event who incorrectly stated that President Barack Obama is Muslim. Speaking to more than 1,000 conservative Republicans at an event sponsored by the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition, Trump said that he is not […]
The war of words between Donald Trump and Fox News turned nasty Wednesday night. On Megyn Kelly’s Fox News talk show, conservative columnist Rich Lowry asserted that Carly Fiorina had castrated Trump. Lowry, a prominent Trump critic, referred to Trump’s private parts and said Fiorina had the “precision of a surgeon.” Kelly, who looked shocked […]
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has received a $118 million gift from alumnus Samuel Tak Lee to fund the study of sustainable real estate development. It was one of the largest donations in the school’s history. The money will be used establish a real estate entrepreneurship lab at MIT that will support research and give […]
Boston-based athlete-to-coach connector CoachUp announced this morning that John Kelley, a former executive at The Princeton Review, will be stepping into the role of the four-year-old company’s chief executive. CoachUp founder Jordan Fliegel will continue to work as the president and will remain a member of the company’s board of directors. CoachUp, which was founded […]
Some people really get into shopping: The coupon-cutters, Amazon Primers, or painstakingly thoughtful types who spend months searching for the perfect anniversary present. But for the rest of us, the act of finding a lamp or shirt or birthday gift can evoke a feeling of dread. That’s what the new Boston-based company, Scratch, which is […]
Microsoft launched developer tools for the Windows 10 Technical Preview, including a software development kit (SDK). Developers can use the new tools, currently in preview, to start building universal Windows apps for Microsoft’s upcoming operating system. A universal Windows app is Microsoft’s verbiage for an app that can run across different form factors, including PCs, tablets, and […]
Are you old enough to remember going into your school’s computer lab, sitting down at a blocky, large Mac computer, and booting up “Oregon Trail”? Now you can relive that experience, albeit on a much newer machine. The Internet Archive, an online library most known for the Wayback Machine website archive, introduced a collection of […]
After he trotted out their drones and button-sized computers at CES yesterday afternoon, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich added one more thing: Intel would boost the diversity in its workforce by 14 percent over the next five years and earmarked $300 million to reach that goal. The amount will be spent over the next three […]
Packers on defense: The strength of this squad is the linebacking trio of Julius Peppers, A.J. Hawk, and Clay Matthews Packers on defense: The strength of this squad is the linebacking trio of Julius Peppers, A.J. Hawk, and Clay Matthews. A hybrid end/pass-rushing specialist, Peppers is lanky, athletic, and has impressive closing speed. Hawk possesses […]
When US Olympic Committee directors meet Thursday to likely choose their nominee to host the 2024 Games, they will likely find that the four competing proposals now have much in common. All four bids — from Boston, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles — will largely rely on existing and temporary facilities generally in […]
Long-term, big-money contracts, particularly for pitchers, almost always become a speedy recipe for disaster. But as he did with most conventional wisdom about his career, Pedro Martinez defied that norm. When the Red Sox traded for the Expos righthander following his first Cy Young season as a 25-year-old in 1997, they immediately locked him up […]