Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the House select committee on January 6, taking questions from the media on July 12, 2022. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Top Democrats say there is a lack of transparency on the Secret Service texts probe. They requested for DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari to step down from his position. The lawmakers…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Friday’s inflation print shocked investors. Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images Marcho Partners lost roughly 84% in the first half of 2022, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The steep losses stemmed from the firm’s leveraged bets on technology names like Shopify, Spotify, and Cazoo. The losses far surpass the 20% decline in the S&P 500…
The 2022 Toyota Corolla SE. Alanis King The Toyota Corolla is one of America’s most popular cars. In 2021, Toyota sold 249,000 of them. The Corolla starts at $20,425, meaning it’s an affordable ways to access the perks of a modern car. I drove one for a week, and I’ll never stop thinking about how…
As more than 300,000 people anxiously watched the flight path of SPAR19, the US Air Force plane carrying Nancy Pelosi on her tour of Asia, Taiwan’s presidential website went down to an apparent cyberattack, reports Reuters. In a Facebook post spotted by Gizmodo, Taiwanese presidential spokesperson Chang Tun-Han said a distributed denial-of-service attack took down…
Meta may have scooped up sensitive medical information without consent. The Vergereports that two proposed class-action lawsuits accuse the company and hospitals of violating HIPAA, the California Invasion of Privacy Act and other laws by collecting patient data without consent. Meta’s Pixel analytic tracking tool allegedly sent health statuses, appointment details and other data to…
We’ve all seen the insane stunts, awesome sporting efforts and fantastic displays carried out by Red Bull sponsored athletes. There are some daring folk out there with a taste for the extreme and Red Bull loves to give them wings. The archives of associated photoshoots show a brilliant collection of images that put extreme sports…
Like Google did earlier this year, Samsung is teaming up with the good people at iFixit and has launched an all-new self repair program targeting a select handful of Galaxy devices. To start, Samsung is only opening the program to the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S21 lineups, as well as the Galaxy Tab S7+. That…
You may be wondering where the August update is for your Google Pixel phone, since yesterday was the first Monday of the month and related security bulletins were posted. For reasons not yet clear, Google didn’t take the additional step of also releasing factory image or OTA files for all of the still-supported Pixel phones,…
A cheap and god awful God of War rip-off has been made available to buy on the Xbox store. It’s called War Gods Zeus of Child, is priced £3.39, and lets you jankily control God of War hero Kratos. Having bought the game and played it myself, I can tell you it is a worthless,…
La Liga, Spain’s top football division, has entered “a one of a kind, multi-year partnership” with EA Sports. The league is home to some of the biggest football clubs in the world, such as Real Madrid and Barcelona. The sponsorship deal, which Marca reports will cost EA €30m euros a year, will include “title-naming rights…