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Monthly Archives: October 2022
Enlarge / The new $100 Kindle is Amazon’s best entry-level model ever, though it still has to live in the Paperwhite’s shadow. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Amazon’s Kindle Scribe is the e-reader lineup’s exciting new high-end device, the one that’s pushing the Kindle experience forward. But it’s just as important for Amazon to keep pushing the…
As Meta makes deeper inroads with businesses on WhatsApp, its biggest bet to monetize the instant messaging app with over 2 billion users, we are getting an early glimpse at how user experience might change on the free app. It’s not great. Scores of people in India, WhatsApp’s largest market by users with over 500…
There’s been a lot of hand-wringing over whether the world will get its act together enough to prevent catastrophic warming. There’s certainly a case to be made there — we’ve spent the last several decades kicking the can down the road at every opportunity. Well, here we are again, with the can again before us…
In the Apple TV+ series “Ted Lasso,” characters Rebecca Welton (Hannah Waddingham) and Sam Obisanya (Toheeb Jimoh) download Bantr, a fictional dating app where users can’t see each other’s photos. Bumble, the women-focused dating app, has now partnered with “Ted Lasso” to bring the experience of Bantr to its users. On Thursday, October 13, Bumble…
Poor, old Viserys. Against all odds, the (very ill, rapidly rotting) King managed to drag himself out of bed in episode 8 and bring about a temporary peace between his long-warring loved ones. It was all going so smoothly, right up until it wasn’t. The problem? After a long day of over-exerting himself the king…
Amazon Prime Early Access sale: live (Image credit: Future) Amazon’s Prime Early Access sale kicks off at midnight tonight in the US and UK, which means it’s almost go-time if you’re looking to snap up some deals before the holiday season. As with Prime Day proper, this new Amazon sale is a global shopping event…
Young freelancer business man working at home in home office Srdjanns74 A Dutch court ruled that a Florida-based company owes a remote employee $73,000 for wrongful termination. The employee was fired for refusing to turn his webcam on for an all-day virtual classroom, according to court documents. In its decision, the court ruled that making…
The DeSantis campaign released a new ad on October 10, 2022, featuring Florida first lady Casey DeSantis. Courtesy DeSantis campaign Florida First Lady Casey DeSantis starred in a new ad for her husband’s campaign. She details how her husband took care of her when she had breast cancer. Six years ago she shot an ad…
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen seen at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing in Washington, DC, on June 8, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo Janet Yellen has dismissed worries that the US dollar’s strength is disrupting markets. The dollar’s rise has pushed countries like Japan and Korea to intervene to prop up their currencies. “We’re…