Lindsay Clancy Judge Finally Declares Mistrial After She Appealed To Remove Holdout Juror: What Happens Next?

Lindsay Clancy Judge Finally Declares Mistrial After She Appealed To Remove Holdout Juror: What Happens Next?

Lindsay Clancy asked Massachusetts’ highest court to step in and force the judge overseeing her high-profile triple murder trial to question or remove a juror who has reportedly become a holdout before declaring a mistrial. However, Judge William Sullivan has officially declared it a mistrial. “At this point I’m going to declare that the jury…

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Why Startups Fail: Record Funding, Record Shutdowns

Why Startups Fail: Record Funding, Record Shutdowns

SimpleClosure, a firm that handles company wind downs, has published its shutdown data for the first half of 2026, and the picture is more useful than the headline suggests. Anyone asking why startups fail will find the answer sitting in a bank balance rather than in a market thesis. The data covers US companies the…

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GTA 6 DualSense Controller: Price, Release Date, Features and Where to Buy

GTA 6 DualSense Controller: Price, Release Date, Features and Where to Buy

Sony has announced two limited-edition Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) DualSense Wireless Controllers for PlayStation 5. The special-edition controllers were revealed during the Sept. 3, 2026, PlayStation State of Play showcase, ahead of the game’s planned November release. The Black Limited Edition and White Limited Edition GTA 6 DualSense controllers feature designs inspired by…

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Merchant of Record Push Opens Emerging Markets Faster

Merchant of Record Push Opens Emerging Markets Faster

Payments company dLocal has launched dMoRe, a merchant of record service aimed at companies that want to sell into fast-growing consumer markets without opening an office there. The announcement landed on August 26, 2026, and it targets a bottleneck founders know intimately. Here is the growth angle. Most teams do not stall in a new…

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Build vs Buy Flips as AI Lets Companies Ship In House

Build vs Buy Flips as AI Lets Companies Ship In House

Roughly a third of organizations have turned down at least one software purchase and written the thing themselves with agentic coding tools, according to McKinsey’s latest global survey of business leaders. The build vs buy question, settled for most of the past decade in favor of buying, is open again. That matters to anyone selling…

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Ryan Reynold’s ‘Mayday’ movie roasts American individualism with one perfect joke

Ryan Reynold’s ‘Mayday’ movie roasts American individualism with one perfect joke

On the surface, Mayday, the new Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh movie that began streaming on Apple TV+ today, looks like just another action comedy with Russian villains. But underneath the sexual innuendos and Top Gun references, there is surprisingly nuanced thread, centered on a centuries-old debate: the Eastern ideal of collectivism, vs. the Western…

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From Moscow to Washington: Vietnam’s To Lam Tests a Delicate Diplomatic Balance

From Moscow to Washington: Vietnam’s To Lam Tests a Delicate Diplomatic Balance

Vietnamese President and Communist Party General Secretary To Lam is planning visits to Russia, France, the United States and Canada in September, according to people familiar with the plans and Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry. The schedule comes as Hanoi seeks to strengthen relationships with major partners while navigating trade uncertainty and rising competition among the world’s…

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