Remember the viral ice bucket challenge? Normal folks and celebs dumped huge buckets of ice-cold water on their heads in 2014, donated money to the ALS Association, and challenged others to join in, too. Mark Zuckerberg challenged Bill Gates, Gates challenged Ryan Seacrest, and Seacrest chucked a tiny hotel room ice bucket over his head,…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
A giant gold-wrapped Easter bunnies at Lindt’s Zurich headquarters. Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters Lidl was ordered to destroy its chocolate bunnies after a lawsuit from Lindt. Switzerland’s supreme court said it was likely that customers could confuse the two items. The court suggested Lidl could melt down the chocolate and reuse it in other products. Lidl has…
Overview of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on August 29, 2022. Satellite image ©2022 Maxar Technologies. Ukraine has accused the Russian military of kidnapping the director general of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Russian forces allegedly blindfolded Ihor Murashov on Friday and forced him into a car. This comes one day after Putin filed to annex…
Days after hosting a major hardware launch, Amazon is apparently having a sale on its older Echo devices. Among the deals, we noticed that both the Echo Show 5 and the larger Echo Show 8 have hit new record lows. The Echo Show 5, which went on sale last year for $85, is now down…
Amazon’s most powerful streaming stick is on sale yet again for Amazon’s second Prime Day sale in 2022. You can grab the Fire TV Stick 4K Max for $35, or $20 off its regular price. That’s how much it went for at this year’s first Prime Day event back in July, and it’s also the…
Marketers should start experimenting now with metaverse-type trends like extended reality and using old and new 3D assets in new ways.Read MoreRead More
The iPhone 14 Pro has one of the best smartphone camera systems money can buy, but it still has its limitations. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge There’s the smell of sizzling sausage, car exhaust, and late-season playoff hopes in the air on Tuesday night as I cross the street toward the…
We’ve been very much impressed with the new Apple AirPods Pro 2, and that’s partly down to the Adaptive Transparency tech they offer. Now it looks as though the same feature could be heading to the original Apple AirPods Pro as well. As spotted on Reddit (via AppleInsider), the latest iOS 16.1 beta brings a…
When you buy through our links, Insider may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more. You can get the final season of “Better Call Saul” for 60% off on Prime Video for a limited time. Greg Lewis/AMC/Sony Pictures Television Amazon is offering big deals on select Prime Video TV shows ahead of its Prime Early Access…
Elon Musk (left) has vowed to let Donald Trump back on Twitter. Andrew Kelly, Gaelen Morse/Reuters Elon Musk asked Twitter to include the word “Trump” in its analysis of fake accounts, per Bloomberg. Musk’s lawyers said in emails that Trump’s name was often associated with spam and bots accounts. Twitter’s lawyers said they were “unpersuaded”…