A satellite view of Typhoon Merbok near Alaska on Friday September 16. National Hurricane Center/Central Pacific Hurricane Center/NOAA The remnants of Typhoon Merbok have brought high winds, storm surges, and drenching rains to the western coast of Alaska since hitting the region on Saturday. Now regarded as one of the worst storms the region has…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The ways in which we live and get around have evolved over the past few decades. For example, sales of e-bikes are outpacing sales of electric cars in the U.S., according to recent research. And, pre-fabricated and manufactured homes are gaining in popularity as housing shortages persist globally. It appears that their popularity is no…
Ford is working on a mobile app designed to alert drivers to pedestrians and bicyclists nearby. The app, scheduled to debut at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America’s World Congress in Los Angeles this week, uses Bluetooth Low Energy to send a location alert from a pedestrian or cyclist’s smartphone to passing Ford vehicles equipped with…
Car companies and battery manufacturers have scrambled over the last few years to secure critical minerals supplies, a race that’s only gotten more intense as consumers snap up every EV that comes off the production line. Demand is so high that the International Energy Agency believes the critical minerals market will grow sevenfold by the…
Bainbridge Growth, a Boston-based software startup providing data, analytics and financial modeling for e-commerce companies, inked $4 million in seed funding. Ben Tregoe and Austin Gardner-Smith started the company in January 2021 after meeting at Nanigans, an advertising automation software company. Tregoe, CEO, told TechCrunch that while helping brands, like Casper, Peloton and Warby Parker…
When Apple originally showed us the iPhone 14, it explained that the new heat management system would make it easier to remove the back glass without replacing more of the chassis. Now a teardown of the device from self-repair experts at iFixit has shown this to be true and demonstrates just how much easier this…
Apple took a big risk, in the US at least, by removing the physical SIM slot for all iPhone 14 models and relying entirely on eSIM. In my tests of three iPhones: iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, and iPhone 14 Pro Max, I used the eSIM phone numbers already assigned to the phones but didn’t…
Some extended spellchecking features added into Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge web browsers have been found to be leaking sensitive information back to their parent companies. An analysis by JavaScript security firm otto-js found most users enable features that they believe to be beneficial to their productivity, only to find that they are leaking their…
US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona MANDEL NGAN / Getty Images Education Sec. Miguel Cardona said student-loan forgiveness will roll out “better than people expect.” He said he is working hard to ensure the process to get relief is as smooth as possible. Some student-loan companies have raised concerns with the lack of guidance on implementation….
Taylor Rains/Insider Air New Zealand has launched its highly-anticipated 17-and-a-half-hour flight from New York to Auckland. The Boeing 787-9 treks about 8,850 miles between the two nations, becoming the world’s new fourth-longest flight. I flew in business class on the ultra-long-haul journey and the amenity-heavy cabin made the time easily fly by. It’s official: What’s…