Airbnb is making it harder to party in the U.S.A. The company has announced it will begin trialling “anti-party technology” in the U.S. and Canada, which will identify and prevent users from making “high-risk reservations.” The new anti-party system will consider various factors to determine whether a booking might be a rager in disguise, including…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
If you cast your mind back to May of this year, it was announced that older Amazon Kindle ereaders will be losing a key feature in the future; we’re sorry to say that this ‘future’ date has finally come to pass. This key feature is the ability to buy books on the device – yeah,…
Rep. Adam Kinzinger has criticized pastors for failing to speak out against Trumpism. Alex Wong/Getty Images Rep. Adam Kinzinger said some Christians in the US are equating Donald Trump to Jesus Christ. In an interview with MSNBC, he also criticized pastors who spread Trumpism from the pulpit. The GOP congressman also warned of political tribalism…
WhatsApp lets users link a desktop computer so they can continue to make and receive calls and send messages without needing to have your smartphone nearby. This is done through WhatsApp Web via a browser, or a web-based WhatsApp desktop app. WhatsApp is launching a native Windows app, which no longer uses the old web-based…
The latest batch of games heading to Xbox Games Pass has been revealed, alongside the roster of titles that will be leaving the subscription service later this month. Chief among the soon-to-be-gone Xbox Game Pass games is Hades. The Grecian roguelite made quite a splash when it was released back in 2018, and made its…
Rep. Liz Cheney speaks to supporters at an election night event during the Wyoming primary election at Mead Ranch in Jackson, Wyoming on Tuesday. PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Rep. Liz Cheney conceded defeat to her primary opponent Harriet Hageman. During her concession speech, she called on Americans to join her fight against Donald…
Former President Donald Trump is being investigated by the Justice Department over classified documents he kept at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Mario Tama/Getty Images Michael Cohen thinks Donald Trump kept top-secret documents to use as a potential bargaining chip. Cohen said Trump could threaten to release classified information to Russia or Iran. This information,…
Rep. Liz Cheney; former President Donald Trump PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images; Brandon Bell/Getty Images Trump congratulated Harriet Hageman for winning Tuesday’s GOP primary in Wyoming. The former president also ripped into Rep. Liz Cheney, a prominent Trump critic. “Now she can finally disappear into the depths of political oblivion,” Trump wrote on Truth…
Nintendo is famous for having a family—friendly image and game that people of all ages can enjoy. But a report by Kotaku paints the picture of a company that’s not so different from other gaming giants that had previously been accused of fostering a “frat boy” workplace culture. The publication talked to several female game…
China is a notoriously difficult market for international startups to crack, but one company seems to have found the recipe for wooing the country’s picky consumers. Three years after Eat Just launched in China, the San Francisco-based company is ready to put more alternative protein products on Chinese people’s plates. Formerly Hampton Creek, Eat Just…