It’s no longer “Bye, Bye, Bye.” ‘NSYNC band members — Lance Bass, JC Chasez, Joey Fatone, Chris Kirkpatrick and Justin Timberlake  — reunited for the first time in 20 months since the five men all gathered in August 2016 for Chasez’s 40th birthday bash. But before the boys took to the stage, Ellen DeGeneres and Carson Daly had a few words to say as they honored the […]

In the leadup to the iPhone X reveal last year, analysts were visibly salivating at the prospect of an iPhone upgrade “supercycle,” a tidal wave of profitability that would sweep Apple stocks to never-before-seen heights and truly enthrone Apple as the king of all smartphone makers. By now, nearly six months after the iPhone X […]

Bowing to pressure from African-American activists, Starbucks excluded the Anti-Defamation League from an upcoming daylong anti-bias training session. The ADL, whose mission is to fight anti-Semitism, will play an advisory role in the company’s long-term efforts to combat discrimination, Jaime Riley, a Starbucks spokeswoman, told POLITICO Monday. But the group won’t help develop the curriculum […]

eXeBlock Technology Corporation (CSE: XBLK) is pleased to announce the development of a blockchain sidechain that will allow all Bitcoin owners direct access to the Company’s decentralized applications (DApps) and DApps being developed by third party developers. eXeBlock has invested nearly 1,000 hours in programmer and development time on the sidechain, which is nearing completion. Once […]

Cryptocurrency advocates are constantly trying to convince non-experts of the advantages of permissionless blockchains, typically by explaining how a decentralized system of consensus-based record-keeping produces an immutable, censorship-resistant ledger. But this doesn’t exactly square with reality. There’s a strong argument that first bitcoin, and now other permissionless cryptocurrencies, have become less decentralized over time, even as their value has grown. The […]

SEOUL  – North and South Korea began dismantling loudspeakers that blared propaganda across their heavily fortified border on Tuesday, South Korea’s defense ministry said, fulfilling a promise made at last week’s historic summit. The moves are the first practical, if small, steps toward reconciliation after Friday’s meeting between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and the […]

NEW YORK  – Oil prices slid more than 1 percent on Tuesday as the dollar remained near a four-month high, but worries that U.S. President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market. The U.S. dollar .DXY surged into positive territory for 2018 and broke past key levels against several […]

If you’ve ever searched Amazon.com for something you wanted and then found yourself feeling like you’re being shunted toward things you aren’t entirely sure you want, you’re not alone. Fast Company’s Mark Wilson took that feeling to the next level, inviting a digital design studio to explore ways to make the Barron’s Next 50 company experience feel like a […]

The who, what, where of the future royal’s regimen. Since the November 2017 announcement of Prince Harry and Suits actress Meghan Markle’s engagement, the Internet has been a-buzz with Markle obsession, detailing her every fashion label and hairstyle donned. (And brands love the mentions; she wears it, it sells out, cha-ching.) She’s thrown love in the direction of British fashion […]

A museum in Southern France has discovered more than half its collection of paintings thought to be by a celebrated local artist are counterfeit. And investigators say that works attributed to other regional artists could also be fakes. The quaint French village of Elne near the border with Spain is proud to be the hometown […]