I didn’t think buying a new iPad would require an advanced degree in cost-benefit analysis. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Last week, I decided I was going to buy a new iPad. There’s nothing wrong with the sixth-gen iPad I currently have, except it’s heavier than I’d like. All I want to…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Organizers at Apple’s Towson Town Center store in Maryland claim that the company isn’t telling the whole truth when it comes to withholding benefits from workers at the location. As the company’s first retail location to unionize in the US pushes to negotiate a contract, workers say it’s…
Enlarge / A Comcast Xfinity service van in Sunnyvale, California, in November 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Sundry Photography) Comcast has a problem—it isn’t signing up many new broadband customers. But Comcast also has a solution—get more money from existing subscribers. Comcast failed to add any broadband customers in Q2 2022, holding steady at 32,163,000…
Cold and flu symptoms can easily be mistaken for COVID-19, but the reverse is also true. Pexels This post has been updated. It was originally published on 3/25/2020. By now, almost everyone has experienced a COVID-19 case. The milder COVID symptoms—which are often the early signs of an infection, and sometimes the only signs you’ll…
The new goal is higher than the existing target set by the EU in 2018. DepositPhotos It’s not just New York and California passing major measures to stifle and eventually stop new gas-powered car sales recently—just today the European Union announced their own version on Thursday. This step is just the first part of the…
Pranksters fooled some media members into thinking they’d been laid off by Elon Musk soon after his Twitter takeover. In reality, they were making reference to a common internet joke involving testicles. Yeah. Not great. A few different media members and media outlets posted about Twitter employees leaving the company’s HQ, boxes of personal belongings…
Intel has announced plans to make a “meaningful number” of layoffs as part of wider cost-cutting measures. The chip giant says its expense reduction plan is set to slash costs by $3 billion in 2023, which it predicts will grow to between $8 billion to $10 billion in yearly cost reductions by the end of…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell make their way to the statue dedication ceremony for Amelia Earhart in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, July 27, 2022. Tom Williams/Getty Images Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, was attacked during an early Friday break-in, police said. Paul Pelosi, 82, was taken…
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Brittany Chang/Insider The city of Everett, Washington, and nonprofit Everett Gospel Mission opened a tiny home village to shelter unhoused people. The initial development and first six months of operations costed about $975,150. Take a look around the tiny home village equipped with 40 $7,500 64-square-foot homes built by Pallet. In 2021, the city of…