American Airlines American Airlines has ordered 20 of Boom Supersonic’s Overture planes, with an option for 40 more. Overture is estimated to fly up to 80 passengers in an all-business class cabin at a top speed of Mach 1.7. The company, which already has a prototype, recently redesigned the jet for better efficiency and reduced…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Ya Daming/VCG via Getty Images An Apple employee said the company threatened to fire her after she posted a TikTok with standard security advice. Paris Campbell made the video to help a TikTok user who said her phone was stolen. She said her manager called her after saying she could face consequences “up to and…
Newsday LLC / Contributor/Getty Images The housing market is finally opening up for buyers with ample cash. While prices still sit at record highs, mortgage rates are down and demand is fading fast. Home construction is also plunging as contractors brace for the market to slide into a recession. Homes are getting much easier to…
A Walmart employee and shoppers in an aisle. Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images Walmart says inflation continues to impact its shoppers, particularly those with low incomes. CFO John Rainey spoke about how consumers are trading meat for beans. Inflation has hit lower-income consumers harder than their affluent counterparts. Walmart shoppers are reaching for beans over lunch meats,…
Over-the-counter hearing aid sales should soon become a practical reality in the US. The Food and Drug Administration has issued a final rule allowing the sales of hearing aids for mild-to-moderate impairment without requirements for exams, prescriptions or audiologist fittings. The measure is expected to take effect in mid-October, when you should see aids reach…
Less than two months before Brazil’s 2022 election, a report from international NGO Global Witness found Facebook parent company Meta “appallingly” failed to detect false political ads. The organization tested Facebook’s ability to catch election-related misinformation by submitting 10 ads. Five of the advertisements featured blatantly false information about the election. For instance, some mentioned…
Oracle has put TikTok’s algorithms and content moderation models under its microscope in an attempt to make sure Chinese officials aren’t meddling with them. TikTok is in the process of moving all of the data it has on US users to Oracle cloud storage based in the country. Oracle’s audit is said to have started…
After a lengthy delay, Square Enix’s two-game Life is Strange remaster bundle finally has a release date on Switch, and will be launching on 27th September. Square’s new Switch bundle – which goes by the name Life is Strange: Arcadia Bay Collection, rather than the Remastered Collection moniker used on other platforms – includes remastered…
Apple today seeded the sixth beta of an upcoming watchOS 9 update to developers for testing purposes, with the new beta coming one week after Apple released the fifth beta to developers. To install watchOS 9, developers will need to download the configuration profile from the Apple Developer Center. Once installed, watchOS 8 can be…
Apple today seeded the sixth betas of upcoming iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple released the fifth developer betas. Registered developers can download the iOS and iPadOS 16 profiles from the Apple Developer Center, and once installed, the betas will be available…