Monthly Archives: October 2022

Workers at major Apple supplier Foxconn are fleeing China’s biggest iPhone factory amid Covid fears

Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn is a major supplier to Apple. Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images Workers are reportedly fleeing the world’s largest iPhone factory in droves, amid a Covid outbreak. Photos and videos of workers escaping the Zhengzhou compound have been circulating online. Foxconn said it is arranging transportation for workers who wish to…

Mopar shows off its electrified Jeep ‘CJ Surge’ concept at SEMA 2022

As the 2022 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) trade show kicks off Monday in Las Vegas, Mopar — Stellantis’ OEM accessory division — unveiled a trio of intriguing concept vehicles, led by an electrified Jeep CJ. Even more exciting, the battery electric technology behind it could portend a restomod revival of classic American muscle cars….

Musk wants Twitter to charge users $20 per month for verification

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, owner of Tesla, SpaceX, and now Twitter, has told Twitter employees that they must lock verified badges behind a paywall within a week. According to The Verge and Platformer, Musk wants Twitter users to subscribe to Twitter Blue to keep their blue checkmarks. Currently, the $4.99-per-month service provides Twitter users with additional…

Twitter may charge users $20 per month to be verified

Twitter’s new “Chief Twit” Elon Musk is reportedly considering making verification a Twitter Blue feature, while simultaneously quadrupling the subscription service’s cost. This would essentially mean charging users a monthly $20 fee to keep their blue tick badge. Predictably, many users have indicated they’d rather just be unverified. The new Musk Era of Twitter kicked…

An elephant-sized demon cat is said to appear at the US Capitol before national emergencies, according to reports as far back as 1862

Tabby kitten yawning. Armstrong Roberts/Retrofile/Getty Images A demon cat is said to appear near the grounds of the US Capitol, the White House Historical Association says. The cat, sometimes described as a tabby and other times black, appears before national emergencies. Sightings were reported before the assassination of JFK and just before the stock market…

GOP Senate nominee repeats hoax that children use litter boxes at school, weeks after John Oliver called Republicans ‘heartbreakingly stupid’ for perpetuating the debunked claim

Republican senate nominee Don Bolduc speaks during a campaign event on October 15, 2022 in Derry, New Hampshire. Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images New Hampshire GOP Senate nominee Don Bolduc repeated a hoax about children using litter boxes. “They lick themselves, they’re cats,” Bolduc said to a crowd at an event on Thursday, as per…

The CDC has surveyed teens on their health and behavior since the ’90s—but now some states are opting out

The CDC developed the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System in 1990 to track the leading causes of death and injury among young people. DepositPhotos This article was originally featured on KHN. As the covid-19 pandemic worsened a mental health crisis among America’s young people, a small group of states quietly withdrew from the nation’s largest public…

Verified Twitter users may soon have to pay a monthly fee to keep their badges under Elon Musk’s leadership: report

Elon Musk wants to call off his deal to buy Twitter. Getty Images “Verified” badges for users may soon become a paid feature of Twitter, sources told Platformer. Sources said there were internal talks of making verification a Twitter Blue feature following Musk’s takeover. The Verge reported Twitter Blue may charge as much as $19.99…