Month: December 2020

When Apple bought the Beats by Dre headphone line in 2014 for $3 billion, it was clear the move was more about brand ubiquity and style rather than hardware quality. While most Apple products are considered paragons of product design (missing ports and annoying notches aside), Beats gear has often been criticized by audiophiles as…

Yeager was the prototype of the American hero, a decorated fighter pilot immortalized in Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff. He died Monday at age 97.

Heading into 2020, Vice Media Group had plenty of 16:9 documentaries, articles and columns on its network of digital properties, and even a linear television presence. What it didn’t have, though, was a strategy for mobile-first vertical video. “One of the missing pieces was power-producing natively for mobile,” Cory Haik, Vice’s chief digital officer, told…