A photo of an airplane wing covered in tape went viral this week. David Wakeham/Twitter A photo of an airplane wing covered in what appears to be duct tape went viral this week. Experts told CheckMate the tape is “speed tape,” a commonly used tool to cover peeling paint. Officials say the tape is no…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
(Photo by Contributor/Getty Images) Former national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster called Putin’s nuclear threats “suicide.” McMaster told CBS that Putin’s threats should not shift the West’s support for Ukraine. It comes as Putin has been scrambling amid the ongoing war and making warnings to use nuclear weapons. Former national security adviser, Lt. Gen….
Maryland Democratic gubernatorial nominee Wes Moore. AP Photo/Alex Brandon Democrat Wes Moore has a hefty lead over GOP state Del. Dan Cox in the Maryland governor’s race, per a new poll. Per the Washington Post-University of Maryland poll, Moore lead Cox 60%-28% among registered voters. Moore not only performed strongly with Democrats but also attracted…
PATRICK PLEUL/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Tesla produced 365,923 vehicles and delivered 343,830 in Q3, the company announced Sunday. While the deliveries mark a new record for the company, they still fell short of estimates. The company cited the challenge of securing “vehicle transportation capacity … at a reasonable cost during these peak logistics weeks.” Tesla’s…
A general view of an exam room inside the Hope Clinic For Women in Granite City, Illinois, on June 27, 2022. – Abortion is now banned in Missouri. ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images Sarah G. told Insider she made the decision to get a salpingectomy after a leaked draft opinion foreshadowed the overturn of Roe…
TikTok plans to bring its live shopping “TikTok Shop” feature to North America using outsourced technology, according to The Financial Times. It’ll reportedly be launched “over the next month with large brands” to take advantage of holiday shopping. TikTok Shop is based on a similar, successful feature on TikTok’s sister app Douyin in China, and…
You’ve probably all done it: launched an ad campaign only to find it didn’t quite hit the spot. Perhaps you didn’t quite reach the audience you wanted to, and the ads didn’t convert the way you hoped. It’s a waste of time and money, isn’t it? So wouldn’t it be good if there was a…
TikTok reportedly plans to take home shopping into the livestream era with a new partnership. According to the Financial Times, TikTok is partnering with live shopping platform TalkShopLive to enable users to buy products directly from livestreams. This past July, TikTok experimented with live shopping in the U.K. using an in-house feature called TikTok Shop….
A Russian T-90M tank in the Victory Day parade in Moscow’s Red Square on May 9, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Ukraine has captured hundreds of Russian tanks, many of which it will use against Russian forces. Russia’s new T-90M, one of which Ukrainian troops reportedly recovered, is likely to be examined. It could give Western militaries…
Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson smiles following her formal investiture ceremony at the Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on September 30, 2022. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Ketanji Brown Jackson says people approach her with “a profound sense of pride” over her SCOTUS appointment. Jackson, the first Black woman to sit on the court, made the…