Anna Kim/Insider Insider talked to five former House candidates who lost primaries to more-experienced politicians. The younger candidates said they generally got little to no support from official party leaders. One candidate was told to “wait your turn.” Another found consultants unwilling to help. Read more from Insider’s “Red, White, and Gray” series. For young…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Russian president Vladimir Putin accused the west of nuclear blackmail in an address to the country Wednesday. Getty Images Members of the European Union are working to implement a price cap on Russian oil, according to Bloomberg. Vladimir Putin threatened to strike back against what he sees as western nuclear threats Wednesday. The price cap…
The UK lifted a moratorium on fracking for shale gas amid the energy crisis. Jae C. Hong/AP Photo The UK lifted a temporarily ban on fracking amid the ongoing energy crisis. It had temporarily banned fracking over fears of earthquakes from the shale-gas extraction process. UK energy bills are expected to be 80% higher in…
Starting next year, you’ll only be able to activate newly released Fitbit models using a Google account. It doesn’t come as a surprise for Google’s services to become more intertwined with Fitbit’s fitness devices after the tech giant acquired the latter for $2.1 billion in 2021. But now, we have a timeline for when Fitbit…
Amazon’s Echo Show smart displays with Alexa voice control are already a good value next to the competition, but a bunch of deals are making them even cheaper. The Show 5 is the best one, on sale right now for just $40, or 53 percent off the regular price. And if you want a larger…
Xiaomi is widely expected to refresh its flagship phone offering soon, offering a spec bumped version of the Xiaomi 12 and 12 Pro called the Xiaomi 12T and 12T Pro respectively. Now, thanks to a new leak of official-looking renders ahead of launch, we know that they’ll look almost identical to their predecessors. These leaks…
Ahead of its product launch event on 6 October, Google has posted a video showing its first in-house smartwatch from just about every angle imaginable. The Google Pixel Watch will be officially introduced during the Made by Google presentation, but we’re not sure what else is left to unveil. You can watch the video trailer…
Valve has been working hard on delivering Steam Deck orders as fast as possible. So much so that it might well be fulfilling all current orders for the popular PC gaming handheld by the end of the year. The company has been making regular posts announcing that it has been increasing the speed of email…
Hello! Welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little bit about some of the games we’ve found ourselves playing over the last few days. This time: trombones, pirates, and outer space. If you fancy catching up on some of the older editions of What We’ve Been Playing, here’s our archive. I haven’t…
The GTA Forum, where this week’s Grand Theft Auto leaks occurred, has suggested the leak may have been the work of more than one person. The initial leaker is known as Teapot and used the account @teapotuberhacker, but the forum believes another user, with the moniker Lily, also had access to this account. It’s unclear…