Illustration by Carlo Cadenas / The Verge Unsurprisingly, it seems like the type of people who shun vaccinations are not great at preventative cybersecurity either. As reported by the Daily Dot, “Unjected” — a dating site specifically for people who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 — failed to take basic precautions to keep users’ data…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
A Colonial Pipeline storage site in Charlotte, North Carolina | Photo by LOGAN CYRUS / AFP via Getty Images A giant pipeline spewed millions of gallons of fuel into a nature preserve for more than two weeks until two teens on four-wheelers noticed the spill and alerted authorities. The teenagers discovered the leak in the…
Best Buy’s first digital-first location will open on Tuesday, July 26th, in Charlotte, North Carolina. | Image: Best Buy Best Buy is opening a digital-first, small-format store on Tuesday in Monroe, North Carolina, that takes a very different approach than most of its “big box” retail locations. The 5,000-square-foot location is only about 15 percent…
The 16-inch MacBook Pro with its lid closed. [credit: Samuel Axon ] Second-generation refreshes of the current 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro design could arrive as soon as this fall, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The updated laptops will feature more powerful chips based on Apple’s M2, he claims. In his weekly Power On newsletter,…
The U.S. Department of Energy is reviving an old loan program and its first recipient is the joint battery venture between General Motors and LG Energy Solution. The $2.5 billion loan issued to GM and LG Energy will be used to help finance the construction of new lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities. Reuters was first…
Disney, with its well-burnished family-friendly image, is no stranger to playing it safe on both sides of the aisle. But after drawing Republican ire earlier this year over LGBTQ issues in Florida, the company’s once again in the political crosshairs and now it’s the Democrats turn to be angry. This time Disney’s in the hot…
As we get closer to the anticipated launch of Nvidia Lovelace later this year, more spec and benchmark leaks are starting to pop up online, and boy howdy, the flagship Lovelace card could be an absolute monster of a GPU. The latest news comes courtesy of reliable Twitter hardware leaker kopite7kimi, who says that Nvidia…
Man receives a tax refund check from the government. bernie_photo/iStock /Getty Images Plus Residents of more than a dozen states may receive relief in the form of direct payments. State legislatures have been setting up their own stimulus programs in a bid to combat inflation. Some states also provided relief through child payment checks and…
Grocery shopping in Rosemead, California on April 21, 2022. Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Rising food prices are starting to affect people’s spending habits, Walmart said. The company warned that customers are not buying as much clothing and other merchandise because of high food and fuel costs. This comes as inflation continues surging in the US,…
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images All summer long, Americans have been plagued by flight delays and travel chaos. Now, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is experiencing the same as she tries to get back to DC. Gillibrand and other Democrats have called for an investigation into airlines’ business practices. Travel chaos has abounded…