Plan before you shop. Karolina Grabowska / Pexels It’s October already, which means we’re on a bullet train to the holiday season. But with inflation in the US currently surpassing 8 percent, it’s getting harder and more expensive to celebrate as we’ve done in years past. But a little planning can go far. Tracking prices…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
PayPal is taking a step away from the Honey brand, the $4 billion shopping rewards acquisition it made in 2019, with today’s launch of PayPal Rewards. The new program will replace “Honey Gold” — the rewards program for Honey browser extension users, which allows customers to redeem their points for cash, gift cards or PayPal…
Tesla door handles, which sit flush with the car’s body, improve the vehicle’s aerodynamics. However, they’re not great in extremely cold weather, with the handles sometimes getting too frozen to move. The company did issue a software fix after the door handle problems first came to light, in the winter of 2018, but it wasn’t…
The ending of House of the Dragon episode 9 was fairly abrupt and dramatic, with the focus since understandably resting on Rhaenys’ dramatic dragon-assisted escape from King’s Landing. But really, it shouldn’t have come as that much of a shock, because we were told it was going to happen. The problem was, the words were…
Kanye West, or Ye as he is now known, is buying Parler, a controversial social media network touting itself as a “free speech” alternative to platforms like Twitter. Parler’s parent company Parlement Technologies announced the news on Monday in a press release, writing that Ye’s acquisition will “further lead the fight to create a truly…
Businesses are increasingly adopting encryption strategies, according to a new report by Thales. More than four in ten (41 per cent) of respondents in the report said their organisation has an encryption strategy that is applied ‘consistently’, across the enterprise. What’s also interesting as that for the first time since Thales started making these reports…
Apple’s new MacBook Pro models which will theoretically debut with the M2 Pro and M2 Max chips won’t be out this month, but should arrive before the end of the year, according to the grapevine. This comes from one of the more reliable sources on all matters Apple, Mark Gurman (and his ever-present Bloomberg newsletter),…
The Chromecast with Google TV is now able to receive an update to Android 12, which adds a collection of new features, including an option that will be especially welcome to movie lovers. The upgrade is rolling out now (via FlatpanelsHD) and includes more privacy features, security upgrades, options to control HDR and surround sound…
Zimbra Collaboration Suite carried a zero-day vulnerability for more than a month, presenting hackers with a real field day that resulted in almost 900 servers being hacked. Researchers at Kaspersky noted the vulnerability being reported on the Zimbra forum, after which all kinds of advanced persistent threat (APT) groups leveraged it to compromise countless servers. …
Ray Dalio. Brian Snyder/Reuters Ray Dalio, Jamie Dimon, and other market experts are deeply worried about the global economy. They fear stubborn inflation, surging unemployment, shrinking economies, and tumbling asset prices. Here’s why they’re so concerned about the world today, and what they expect to happen next. Several of the world’s shrewdest investors, executives, academics,…