Monthly Archives: August 2022

Retail investors are incurring billions in hidden costs using ‘free’ brokerages, study says

Lucky-photographer/Shutterstock Free brokerages are still costing retail investors billions, but not due to the controversial PFOF practice. Rather, hidden costs come from differences in price improvement among brokerages, a new study finds. That can cause billions in losses annually among all retail investors, the study’s authors said.  Zero-commission trading apps may have brought a new…

Jet made an emergency landing after flight attendants told passengers that the pilot had fainted, report says

A Jet2 flight from Birmingham to Antalya made an emergency landing this week. Getty Images A Jet2 plane made an emergency landing in Greece on Tuesday on a flight from England to Turkey. A passenger told Birmingham Live that a flight attendant said the pilot had fainted. A Jet2 spokesperson told Insider the landing was…

Tim Cook Talks Apple Work Culture, Product Innovation, Self-Repair Service for iPhone and Mac, Steve Jobs, and More in New Interview

In a new wide-ranging interview with Popular Mechanics, Apple CEO Tim Cook discusses product innovation and how it drives Apple to make better products, allowing customers to repair their iPhones and Macs with the self-service repair program, Steve Jobs and his legacy, and more. During the interview published in a special edition of Popular Mechanics,…

Perceptron: Face-tracking ‘earables,’ analog AI chips, and accelerating particle accelerators

Kyle Wiggers Contributor Kyle Wiggers is a senior reporter at TechCrunch with a special interest in artificial intelligence. His writing has appeared in VentureBeat and Digital Trends, as well as a range of gadget blogs including Android Police, Android Authority, Droid-Life, and XDA-Developers. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, a piano educator, and dabbles…

How reptiles took over the world

Climate change is shaping the way animals evolve, be it the way they look or behave. Similarly, climate warming that occurred millions of years ago helped reptiles evolve faster, diversify, and conquer the world, says a new study.  Researchers have long believed the extinction of some of our mammalian ancestors at the end of the…

Who is Kang the Conqueror? Everything you need to know about Marvel’s latest Big Bad

Once upon a time, the Marvel Cinematic Universe had a reputation for near-perfect interpretations of its comic-book heroes, but coming up short when it came to the villains. In recent years, however, the likes of Black Panther’s Erik Killmonger, Thor: Ragnarok’s Hela and, of course, Avengers antagonist Thanos have gone some way to redressing the…