Stack Commerce For the first time in nearly a decade, Walmart-owned Sam’s Club announced that they would have a slight price bump to membership prices in the fall. Annual fees for the regular membership will go from $45 to $50, while the higher-tier level Plus membership, which offers additional benefits to members, will go from…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The flagship iPhone makes some noticeable changes. Stan Horaczek I leave my smartphone sitting face down on my desk most of the day. I hear it vibrate. I pick it up and it shows me my notifications. I didn’t realize quite how ingrained this whole process is in my psyche before I started testing the…
Ketamine has currently only been approved by the FDA for the treatment of depression in a nasal spray. Julia Rendleman for The Washington Post/Getty Images A study published Monday in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry found that some people who received intravenous ketamine across three private ketamine infusion clinics had “significant improvement” in symptoms of…
For years, the notch just sat there on top of the iPhone, doing nothing besides obscuring the selfie camera and the Face ID components. It was a necessary nuisance, a compromise that afforded a slimmer bezel but not a fully continuous display. Not any more. With the new iPhone 14 Pro and the iPhone 14…
September’s Patch Tuesday is upon us, giving Microsoft the opportunity to fix, among other things, two zero-day vulnerabilities being actively exploited in the wild. As per the company’s security advisory, the two flaws are tracked as CVE-2022-37969, and CVE-2022-23960. The former is a Windows Common Log File System Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability, and it…
The latest iPhone software update has arrived and brought several new features to Apple’s services, and soon Google will follow suit with lock screen widgets of its own. The iOS 16 update is giving people with an Apple smartphone from the iPhone 8 up to the iPhone 14 new benefits, including the return of battery…
The pandemic and changing consumer preferences have fundamentally altered the payments & commerce ecosystem, and retailers and brands will need to adapt to retain fickle consumers. The companies that continue to digitize the shopping journey, while promoting sustainability and reducing friction, will win in 2022. As the new year is starting, we’ve compiled three trends…
IStock; Vicky Leta/Insider Do Kwon, the creator of the Terraform Labs ecosystem, faces an arrest warrant in South Korea, Bloomberg reported. The court in Seoul issued the warrant for Do Kwon and five others for alleged capital markets law violations. The crypto founder oversaw Terra, which imploded earlier this year and catalyzed a downturn across…
Getty Images The Education Department updated guidance on the process for receiving student-loan payment refunds. Borrowers who apply for and receive Biden’s debt cancellation will get refunds automatically. Others can still qualify, but they will have to call their servicer to start the process. President Joe Biden’s Education Department quietly posted new guidance on the…
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin take part in the opening ceremony of the Moscow Sun Ferris wheel in Moscow, Russia, on September 10, 2022. Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images Ukrainian troops forced Russia to retreat in the northeastern region of Kharkiv. Meanwhile, Putin spoke at the opening of a Ferris wheel,…