Wondery chief brand officer Nicole Blake is giving podcasts the ‘Harry Potter’ treatment. Not so long ago, a book deal and a live tour marked the outer limits of how far a hot podcast could hope to expand its horizons. These days, they’re only the beginning. Especially at Wondery, the fast-growing podcast network based in…
Playing in Stanford’s football stadium, the school’s softball home game against archrivals California set the NCAA attendance record Saturday with a crowd of 13,207 Continue reading…
His LeapPad tablets, which helped children read, found their way into tens of millions of homes beginning in 1999.
Thierno Agne left behind studying law to grow strawberries, a shocking move in Senegal, where farming is considered work for the old, poor and uneducated. His success is making the profession “sexy.”
It looks like humanoid robots have a long way to go before catching up with human runners. Beijing’s E-Town tech hub hosted what it described as the first world’s first humanoid half-marathon on Saturday, with 21 humanoid robots competing alongside thousands of humans. Bloomberg reports that the winning robot, Tiangong Ultra, was built by the…
After barely hanging on to a tightly-contested Game 1 victory on Friday, Iowa baseball (26-11, 16-4 Big Ten) claimed its seventh conference series of the season as the Hawkeyes won by a score of 3-2 vs. Michigan (23-16, 8-9) on Saturday afternoon from Ray Fisher Stadium at the Wilpon Baseball and Softball Complex in Ann…
When it comes to sleepovers, Khloe Kardashian is “very strict” about not allowing her kids, True, 7, and Tatum, 2, to take part in the time-honored tradition, citing that “times are different” now. In the latest episode of her podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land. , the 40-year-old reality star spoke with UFC CEO Dana White…
The event is stirring memories of an exhibition in 1970, when the postwar Japanese economy was taking off and “you could have dreams about the future.”
A sectarian-fueled killing spree exposed how fragile peace is in Syria, where the government’s control is limited and tension runs deep after nearly 14 years of civil war.
The deal is valued between 800 crore rupee (US$90 million) to 1,000 crore rupee (US$120 million).
