Enlarge / Steam, installed from the Snap Store, looks and feels a lot like Steam. You just see this interface a bit sooner, without a bunch of tabs open to find the right dependencies. (credit: Canonical / Valve) Installing Steam on a Linux system just got a little easier, at least if you can install…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Enlarge (credit: Getty | MediaNews Group) The longtime water superintendent for a small town in Vermont has resigned in protest after local officials ordered him to restore the town’s water to the state’s standard for fluoride levels—which he had been secretly and unilaterally lowering for years due to his own personal anti-fluoride beliefs. And his…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson/Ars Technica) Until a long-promised future replete with driverless cars arrives, we’re stuck behind the wheels of our own vehicles. Autonomous driving is slowly getting more… autonomous in places, but for passenger cars that still feature steering wheels, we still need to keep our hands on the wheel and eyes on the…
Cloud cost optimization startups have become ubiquitous, and they’ve found a friendly ear among enterprise clients looking to cut costs amid the downturn. But should younger startups similarly scrutinize their cloud spend? According to several cloud investors, startups should prioritize building over optimization — unless it’s going to save them a big chunk of money….
A Hobby Lobby store. Joe Raedle/Getty Images We took a closer look at Hobby Lobby’s biggest controversies over its nearly 50-year history. The arts-and-crafts store — led by the conservative Christian founder and CEO David Green and his family — has a long history of scandals. Most recently, this included the DOJ confiscating an ancient…
This year, monthly US social network users will grow at less than half the pace of 2020. Facebook will experience its slowest growth ever in 2021 at just 0.8%. Do you work in the Marketing, Media & Advertising industry? Get business insights on the latest tech innovations, market trends, and your competitors with data-driven research….
Former President Donald Trump. José Luis Villegas/AP The Jan. 6 committee formally subpoenaed former President Trump for documents and testimony. The committee laid out in detail Trump’s multi-pronged effort to subvert the election results. Trump has until November 4 to produce the relevant documents and was called to testify on November 14. The House Select…
Ring Doorbell Camera Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Ring provided Insider with a statement following a near deadly Florida shooting. An innocent women fled gunfire after a father-son duo responded to Ring doorbell alerts Saturday morning, officials say. Earlier this month, a woman says her mother took revenge on a package thief seen on Ring…
FORT WORTH, TX – NOVEMBER 27: Shoppers Jeri Hull (L) and Karen Brashear (R) wait in line while shopping at Toys”R”Us during the Black Friday sales event on November 27, 2009 in Fort Worth, Texas. Toys”R”Us stores nationwide opened at midnight Thursday, November 26, providing shoppers access to its Black Friday deals five hours earlier…
Gas app screenshots A new app for high schoolers is ranked #1 in the app store right now, beating out BeReal and TikTok. The app “Gas” lets users send anonymous compliments to their friends and classmates through polls. The creators are trying to dispel a human trafficking hoax they say is causing users to delete…