Monthly Archives: October 2022

A beginner’s guide to Instagram, the wildly popular photo-sharing app with over a billion users

Instagram is a free social media platform for sharing photos and videos with your followers. It’s become an especially popular way to connect with brands, celebrities, and friends. Instagram has an array of features, from short-form videos to live streaming and private messaging. One could argue that Instagram is a social media network like no…

How to tell if someone has muted you on Instagram, so that your posts won’t appear in their feed

It’s not easy to tell if you’ve been muted on Instagram. Shutterstock/NARAPIROM There’s no surefire way to tell if someone has muted you on Instagram. If someone who used to actively engage with your content no longer does, you might’ve been muted. When you mute someone on Instagram, you’ll still be following them, but won’t…

Read Elon Musk’s letter to Twitter saying he’ll honor the original $44 billion deal if there’s an ‘immediate’ end to their court battle

Elon Musk. REUTERS/Adrees Latif Elon Musk is looking for a quick end to months of litigation with Twitter. The billionaire is again offering to buy Twitter at the price he agreed to in April. Read his letter below, which Twitter is reviewing. Lawyers for Elon Musk on Tuesday sent Twitter a letter offering again to…

Millions of student-loan borrowers had their debt transferred to new companies over the past year — and it resulted in payment errors for ‘hundreds of thousands of accounts,’ a federal consumer watchdog says

Getty Images Millions of student-loan borrowers were transferred to new companies over the past year. The CFPB found those transfers resulted in significant errors on borrowers’ balances. Many borrowers received inaccurate bills and errors tracking their payment progress. Last year, a number of student-loan companies announced they were ending their federal contracts, requiring millions of…

5 steps to choosing the right CD

Insider’s experts choose the best products and services to help make smart decisions with your money (here’s how). In some cases, we receive a commission from our our partners, however, our opinions are our own. Terms apply to offers listed on this page. Depending on your preferences, you might have to choose between traditional CDs…

Herschel Walker’s abortion scandal won’t bother power-hungry conservative Georgians but may push skeptics like regretful Trump voters to sit out the Senate race, expert says

Republican Senate hopeful Herschel Walker at a campaign event on September 9, 2022 in Gwinnett, Georgia. Megan Varner/Getty Images Georgia professor says Herschel Walker’s personal problems may alienate key undecided voters. Those likely to balk at abortion issues include independents and Trump fans who bailed out in 2020. The pundit said diehard Republicans will stick…

Meta will close its Substack newsletter competitor by early 2023

Bulletin, Meta’s foray into the newsletter subscription space, is going away in early 2023, as The New York Times first reported. The company confirmed to Engadget that it will pay out all Bulletin writer contracts. Writers can keep earning subscription revenue until the service shutters, and take their email lists and content archives to other…

This biomechanical art installation gets stabby to the beat of a rhododendron’s electrical noise

Kinetic installation artist David Bowen has given a rhododendron a really big knife, the power to use it, and therefore, a degree of agency not enjoyed by the kingdom Plantae since the Cambrian era. His latest piece, Plant Machete, melds a woody shrub with an industrial robot arm and slaps a machete to the business…