There were plenty of products revealed this week and at the centre of this deluge was Amazon’s latest range of Fire and Alexa-enabled products. What caught my eye from a TV perspective was the new Fire TV Cube. I’d interviewed Daniel Rausch, Vice President, Entertainment Devices and Services at Amazon earlier in 2022 and I…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
In 1937, Hormel introduced the world to Spam, a canned meat that gained huge global popularity. Spam basically became an A-list celebrity of the food world. Some 30-something years later, Monty Python turned the spongy canned meat into an unwitting hit song during a sketch that aired in 1970. Then, in 1978, the first unsolicited…
Intel’s top-end Arc graphics cards, the A7 series, have been spotted in some leaked benchmarks with interesting results – that we admittedly need to sprinkle liberally with the usual caveats. So, treat this as the rumor it is, but VideoCardz reports that Geekbench results have popped up for the Intel Arc A770 and A750 GPUs…
If you’re looking for reasons to buy the Google Pixel 7 or the Google Pixel 7 Pro when they’re launched next week, consider this: you might get a free Google Pixel Watch or some Google Pixel Buds Pro earbuds with your preorder. That’s according to tipster Roland Quandt, who is usually reliable with the information…
Former President Donald Trump. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Trump often speculated about others’ sexualities, according to NYT reporter Maggie Haberman’s book. Trump mocked gay men and called them “queer” or “faggot,” his employees reportedly said. The revelations are made in te new book “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” seen…
Guinea pigs are being abandoned at many animal shelters. Getty Images New York City Council members have backed a bill that would ban sales of guinea pigs. Shelters have been inundated with pets bought during the pandemic that are now unwanted. One shelter spent $20,000 on a guinea pig tower to store more, The New…
Former President Donald Trump gets ready to speak during a Save America rally on October 1, 2022 in Warren, Michigan. Trump Emily Elconin/Getty Images The National Archives told Congress on Friday that records from Trump’s White House are still missing. It is pursuing messages sent by officials who conducted official business on personal messaging accounts….
A Russian man leaves the country amid an exodus of people trying to avoid a military call-up. Davit Kachkachishvili/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Russian men are fleeing the country following the announcement of “partial mobilization.” A 21-year-old Russian, whose parents are Ukrainian, told Insider about his escape to a neighboring nation. He traveled for four…
Taylor Rains/Insider Air New Zealand operates the world’s 4th longest flight between New York and Auckland at over 8,800 miles. The carrier uses a Boeing 787-9 with three classes, including business, premium economy, and regular economy. I flew in the airline’s unique economy Skycouch product to New York — here’s what it was like. Air…
Majorie Taylor Greene waves to the crowd before she makes speaks during a Save America rally on October 1, 2022 in Warren, Michigan Emily Elconin/Getty Images Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at a rally for Donald Trump in Michigan on Saturday night. A video shows her accusing Democrats of murdering Republicans, saying the “killings” have already…