Beer being poured at Night Shift Brewing. Source: Night Shift Brewing Collin Castore started selling beer out of coolers in parking lots at Grateful Dead concerts. It was the mid-1990s and craft beer was a small niche market. While most people were drinking big labels like Budweiser and Miller, Grateful Dead fans had a taste
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Since 2016, Airbnb has sued more than a half dozen US cities and other government agencies over local ordinances regulating the short-term-rental industry and holding companies liable for ensuring the rentals comply with the law. It’s become so common that many local government officials in popular tourist destinations looking to crack down on illicit short-term
The CEO of Boston Beer Company told CNBC on Friday that the brewer is looking to enter the cannabis market next after its success in the hard seltzer business. “We’re not going to be the first one in, but we’re going to study and learn once the [hard seltzer] category develops. We’ll play it sometime
On Friday, news broke that Google reportedly has agreed to pay as much as $200 million to settle claims with the Federal Trade Commission that YouTube, its popular video platform, violated children’s privacy laws on a vast scale. The FTC started investigating YouTube more than a year ago. At the time, WIRED wrote: “The complaint
If Khanifar tried to register the unauthorized booster with his carrier, it may not have permitted him to use it. The FCC requires everyone register their boosters—including older models purchased before its rules went into effect in 2014 and were grandfathered in. If Khanifar ran the booster anyway and it caused interference, his wireless carrier
File photo of a ride-sharing driver displaying Lyft and Uber stickers on his front windshield in downtown Los Angeles. AP Photo | Richard Vogel Uber and Lyft on Thursday pledged $60 million to a California ballot initiative for the 2020 election that would maintain the status of their drivers as contract workers. The companies have been
A trader gestures while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York. Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines midday Thursday: Boeing, Caterpillar, Deere — Shares of the trade bellwethers rose after the Chinese Ministry of Commerce hinted that China will not escalate
Promotional still of Rise of the Resistance, a new ride coming to Disney’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge in Orlando and Anaheim. Disney The resistance is recruiting and you answer the call. Tucked away in the old outpost on Batuu is a winding path that leads to a secret base, the home of resistance fighters like
The settings on Instagram include a page devoted to the “Linked Accounts” feature. As you might expect, it displays … your linked accounts. Users have the option to connect to Twitter, Tumblr, and, of course, Instagram’s parent company, Facebook, among others. On first glance, the feature appears pretty straightforward—apps that aren’t linked are shown in
For a publication about technology, WIRED has sometimes had a vexed relationship to the web. One of the first great websites, Suck, was a rogue operation run out of the magazine’s server rooms behind the editors’ backs. Around the same time, we may have invented the banner ad. For years, WIRED.com was run by a
Strange times make for strange bedfellows. So it is in 2019 when conservative nonprofit Prager University finds itself allied with a group of left-leaning LGBTQ+ YouTubers. The common denominator? Both groups are suing YouTube for discriminating against their videos. On Tuesday PragerU, a nonprofit that is not an accredited university and says it promotes the
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter talks with the media during a break the Opioid trial in Norman, Okla., June 26, 2019. Sue Ogrocki | AP SC Johnson, maker of Drano, Pledge and other household products, is threatening to sue Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter for citing the company’s slogan in the state’s opioid lawsuit against
Orbital Marine Power The Scottish government has awarded £3.4 million ($4.17 million) in funding to assist with the construction of a next-generation floating tidal turbine. The recipient of the funding, a Scottish firm called Orbital Marine Power, is developing what it describes as the “world’s most powerful tidal turbine.” The Orbital O2 will be made
Karl Marx famously complained that “philosophers have only interpreted the world … The point, however, is to change it.” While it’s doubtful Silicon Valley’s mission to disrupt the world was inspired by Marx, the father of communism captures how many capitalist engineers seem to feel about philosophy: a pointless attempt to answer theoretical questions in
Worldwide spillover from US-China trade wars, block by block road emissions in LA, and America’s history of wanting to nuke hurricanes. Here’s the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Today’s Headlines Trump’s trade war isn’t just a
Gartner: “We’ve got to look at that. You know, I’ve always liked Gartner. I got to drill down and find out why exactly it’s so bad because, wow, that might be an opportunity.” Cyberark: “I think that that was the sellers really just kind of not understanding the story. Boy, I got to tell you,
The US and China won’t be the only ones affected in the trade war raging between the two countries. As companies scramble to find ways around the ever-increasing tariffs that the world’s two largest economies impose on each other’s goods, other countries are being drawn into a conflict that might have no winners. The world
Allred, who is 29, started what would become Lambda School in 2017. He was living in Utah, where he had grown up in a Mormon family, and had returned after stepping away from his first Silicon Valley startup, a crowdsourcing site where users report and fact-check the news. (At the time, a San Francisco magazine
Twenty-five Disney stores will open at Target stores across the country this Oct. 4, ahead of the holiday season, in cities including Philadelphia, Denver and Chicago. Source: Target Target on Sunday announced it’s opening dozens of permanent Disney stores within its own stores over the next year, as it invests in more unique ways to
Sleeper is a San Francisco fantasy football startup that is taking on ESPN and Yahoo. Sleeper Sunny Yen isn’t a big sports fan. She’s always happy to attend Super Bowl parties, but that’s about it. And yet, Yen is the director of product design at a 16-person San Francisco fantasy football start-up called Sleeper. “I
R2-D2 and BB-8 attend Go Behind The Scenes with Walt Disney Studios during D23 Expo 2019 at Anaheim Convention Center on August 24, 2019 in Anaheim, California. Frazer Harrison | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Disney is the king of the box office. The company, which houses a half dozen studios under its film
Actor Ewan McGregor arrives at the premiere of Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm’s ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ at the El Capitan Theatre on May 10, 2018 in Hollywood, California. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin | FilmMagic | Getty Images It’s official. Ewan McGregor will be reprising his iconic role as Obi-Wan Kenobi for Disney’s streaming service Disney+. On Friday,
At the beginning of 2016, Twitter announced some good news: the formation of the Trust and Safety Council, made up of more than 40 outside groups and experts tapped for advice “to ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter.” By that point, the company had already spent years knee-deep in accusations that its
EIR Healthcare How to apply You should fill out the newly available cancer deferment application and send it to your servicer. “A telephone call is not sufficient,” Kantrowitz said. “Keep a copy for your records.” You will need your doctor to confirm that you have cancer. He or she can do this on the cancer
In this photo illustration, the new Impossible Whopper sits on a table at a Burger King restaurant on August 8, 2019 in Brooklyn, New York. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Investors are rushing to get a piece of privately held Impossible Foods before it goes public, according to the Wall Street Journal. Brokers handling transactions
The internet is dark and full of terrible sources of information. Sometimes it seems like every day brings a new one to the list. There are the toxic conspiracy theories, deepfakes, and fake news mills. And then there are good old-fashioned internet hoaxes. You know the ones—the sort of fear-mongering, copypasta-esque warnings that came in
In 2018, Mei’lani Eyre, an 18-year-old computer science student at Cascadia College in Washington state, was in the middle of a phone interview with a hot shot Y Combinator-funded tech company, when the interviewer barked at her to stop talking and just code, “But with that kind of bass in his voice,” Eyre says. “You
Shares of Lowe’s surged more than 10% after the company posted better-expected results in its second quarter raised guidnace on Wednesday. That’s not the only thing that propped the stock’s rally during the session, if you ask CNBC’s Jim Cramer. After Home Depot — Lowe’s chief rival — beat profit estimations the day prior, a number
Some internet hoaxes are like the seasons. They predictably come back around, no matter how many times they’ve already been debunked. That’s exactly what happened Tuesday, when a smattering of high-profile celebrities and public figures with a collective following in the tens of millions were duped by an old Instagram myth. People like Martha Stewart
A pedestrian passes in front of a statue of a bull in the Wall Street area in New York City. Doug Kantor | AFP | Getty Images The downtrend in some global economies is becoming contagious as weakness in the manufacturing sector begins to spread, according to Morgan Stanley, which warned clients that “the wheels