If you listen to music the way a lot of people do these days - with a pair of wireless earbuds, from a Bluetooth speaker, or just blaring directly out of your phone - you will never notice a difference between Spotify's high-quality 320Kbps streams and its lossless audio. But, if you usually listen with […]

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
IBM is holding its own in the quantum computing race against Google, Microsoft, and others, as they tackle enormous scientific and engineering challenges  —  IBM is racing Google, Microsoft and a handful of startups to build the world's first viable quantum computer

Kyle Mooney's strange 2017 dramedy explores trauma and creativity, helped by a memorable Mark Hamill performance.

Imagine if George Cukor's The Women was a modern, Spanish-language telenovela set in Ecuador rather than a 1939 dramedy about the lives of wealthy Manhattanites. Now imagine if the series was directed by Pedro Almodóvar and its characters were brought to life with stop-motion animation instead of being portrayed by Hollywood heavyweights like Joan Crawford […]

Bloomberg:
A profile of Figure CEO Mike Cagney, now a billionaire after Figure's post-IPO surge; he resigned as SoFi's CEO in 2017 after several workplace controversies  —  It took him a few tries, but Mike Cagney is now a billionaire.  —  Shares of blockchain-based lender Figure Technology Solutions Inc …