Part of the reason is that licensing out titles can be a lucrative business. So far this year, ViacomCBS made .6 billion from licensing, almost a quarter of the company’s total revenue. That money comes from an array of licenses,…

But there is something else, something subtler, about the allure of our historical heroes. We are drawn them partly because their foreclosed lives, by virtue of having been lived, are free from the uncertainty that bedevils our own; and partly…

TECHNOLOGY …of 2021. TEACHING By way of some overall remarks on the year, well, the main one is that it is difficult to make overall remarks on the year. COVID-19 continued to negatively affect our professional and personal lives in…

Video screenshot by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper/CNET “From a marketing standpoint, it kind of makes sense,” she says. “There has been a long-held belief that tri-colored cats have what has been coined “Tortitude” or tortoiseshell attitude,” Hedges says. “Tortoiseshells are known…

From the Stoics to the snails, by way of music, matter, and the mind. By Maria Popova Read it here. Here are the best of these eternal echoes — as usual, a composite best: a hybrid of the pieces I…

This isn’t the first time LastPass — whose source code is proprietary, rather than open-source — has faced a security scare or criticism over its privacy practices. Its most notable breach was in 2015 and is the only breach noted on LastPass’…

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Getty Images The British overseas territory is reviewing a proposal for blockchain firm Valereum to acquire the Gibraltar Stock Exchange, which would allow the territory to serve as a platform to trade bitcoin and dogecoin alongside traditional bonds, according to…