Monthly Archives: October 2022

Know the holiday shipping and return policies for Amazon, Target, Walmart, and others

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge With the holiday season right around the corner, everyone is double-checking their lists and figuring out the best places to fulfill those orders. Thankfully, there are often a number of options when it comes to retailers that have what you want. Because of this, online retailers aren’t…

Ocean plastic ‘vacuums’ are sucking up marine life along with trash

Cleaning up plastic is just one part of the ocean pollution dilemma. Unsplash Every year, more than 14 million tons of plastic pollute the ocean and threaten the life of various marine species. About 80 percent of all marine debris is plastic, which demonstrates the extent of global plastic pollution. Boat builders, sailors, and engineers have developed…

These founders landed early checks by being savvy about social media

On first blush, founders building a coffee brand, a social networking app, and a fintech-focused venture fund wouldn’t appear to have much in common. But at TechCrunch Disrupt, the founders, together on stage, credited their early success in raising venture capital to their use of social media platforms. It’s an interesting and increasingly necessary ingredient….

The 10 scariest horror movies on Shudder to keep you up at night

Horror movies come in all shapes and sizes. You’ve got your comedy horrors, your psychological horrors, your tense thriller-y horrors — and, of course, your genuinely scary horrors. I’m not just talking about your run-of-the-mill, yikes-that’s-a-bit-creepy kind of films, here, either. I’m talking about the truly terror-inducing — the type of movies you wake in…