The Southwest flight attendant was sitting in a jumpseat in the aft of the plane. Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock A Southwest Airlines flight attendant broke her back during a “firm” landing, the NTSB said. The plane hit the ground with such force she thought it had crashed, the NTSB said in a report. There were no other…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
A Facebook contractor took us inside the “messy” termination of their job, and DTC darling Warby Parker just cut dozens of corporate roles. If this was forwarded to you, sign up here. Download Insider’s app here. Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Drew Angerer/Getty Images 1. Inside the “messy” end of a Facebook contractor’s job. Many contractors…
A file photo of Kevin McCarthy and then-President Donald Trump. Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times/POOL/Getty Images McCarthy threatened to investigate the DOJ and Merrick Garland after an FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago. He currently has no power to do that, but would if the GOP retakes the House in the mid-terms. Trump allies are seeking to…
Howdy markets people. Phil Rosen here in Los Angeles. Officially, I’m a senior reporter, but I’m tempted to change my title to “Bear Whisperer” because that’s really what I spend much of my time doing lately. I’ve been reading bleak market forecasts and talking to pessimistic analysts at a higher clip than usual, and I’ve…
WhatsApp just introduced several important privacy features including the online status blocking option it recently showed in beta, TechCrunch has reported. The aim is to eventually make WhatsApp “as private and secure as face-to-face conversations,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. The new “online presence control” feature allows you to send messages…
For a while now it’s been possible to sync your Fitbit with your computer. That’s partly because Fitbit’s intelligent fitness trackers have been around since before smartphones were so commonplace. The Fitbit Connect app would allow you to connect your favourite fitness tracker to your machine and then collect your data and sync it with…
At the start, it was easy for critics to write off Genshin Impact as a shameless Breath of the Wild clone from a country with a reputation for knock-offs. Even when it did gain a following to everyone’s surprise, coverage also had a hand-wringing focus on its gacha mechanics. But defying expectations, the free-to-play open…
I wish I could tell you that the older and more tedious I get the more I see the appeal of dictionaries. In truth, I was born old and tedious, and I have loved dictionaries forever. I am unable to escape their gravity – I open the book to look up one thing, and then…
It’s still nearly two and a half years away, but the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie now has a firm release date. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles will return to a big screen near you on 20th December 2024. Fun fact for film fans – that’s the same day as Avatar 3, the sequel to the…
There are roughly 221 million Netflix subscribers, but only 1.7 million actually engage with the subscription service’s games on a daily basis. To put that into perspective, that is less than one percent of users. According to Apptopia (via CNBC), Netflix’s game offerings have only been downloaded a total of 23.3m times since the company’s…