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With the successful culmination of X-PITCH 2021 — The X Games for startups, 18 startups from the TOP150 semi-finalists have announced the completion of their funding rounds. Aside from the US$1 million investment prize that the top three startups have received in total, semi-finalists have also raised over US$17 million as of March 27, 2022. According to a survey, 70 per cent of TOP150 startups said X-PITCH added value to their fundraising campaign. Organised by TA, X-PITCH brought together outstanding startups worldwide to highlight the concept of “Tech for Good” and digital transformation. The TOP150 semi-finalists, who were selected from...

We recently worked with Meredith and Bruna of the Westport, CT-based organizing service House of Prim to organize kitchen drawers (and our pantry, coming next week!) and I’m excited to share the before and afters with you today! It was such an eye-opening experience for me to work with a professional organizer for the first time — I’m always drawn to organizing content online and love the idea of living with super streamlined systems, but I find the process of creating them myself pretty daunting and the results have rarely been very appealing or, more importantly, very lasting. Having two objective...

    On a recent family trip to the Outer Banks in North Carolina, we learned that Dare County, NC, has the largest concentration of black bears in the Southeast. There are over 20,000 of them in our state (North Carolina). The bear warning signs near the Wright Brothers Memorial kept us well aware of this fact! So, when we received The Creature Crew Deciduous Forest science kit, it was fun to learn more about black bears. The Creature Crew science subscription boxes are designed for kids ages 5-10. We have studied a great deal about animals during our homeschooling...

Three years after David Bruckner terrified Netflix viewers with "The Ritual," he returned to the world of horror features with the Rebecca Hall-starring supernatural horror thriller, "The Night House." Hall plays a woman named Beth, whose husband recently died by suicide. She spends her days wandering through the beautiful home on the lake he designed and built for her, but every night, she is plagued by ghastly nightmares, and finds herself overwhelmed with unexplainable visions of a presence in her home. Beth is convinced the nighttime hauntings will provide solutions, but the more she investigates the life of the husband...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SPY.com may receive an affiliate commission. A lot of us have a love-hate relationship with our garages. It’s nice to have the space to park your car — in theory, but the reality is that if you have one, you most likely use it as a storage space. Here’s where the hate part of that relationship kicks in. It’s so easy for your collection of things and tools to start piling up, and, all of a sudden, it can feel as if your entire garage...