Mattresses lie on the floor in a holding cell at the basement of a police station which was used by Russian forces in the recently liberated town of Izium, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka/Associated Press A Ukrainian woman told The Washington Post she was raped and tortured by Russian soldiers in Izium. Alla,…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
MediaTek’s newly-announced Dimensity 1080 smartphone chipset promises to bring improved performance and better battery life to 5G-equipped smartphones. The Dimensity 1080 chipset comes with “several advanced features” which, MediaTek’s deputy general manager, CH Chen, claims will “challenge expectations about what a 5G smartphone can do”. Of course, that’s largely marketing speak, but it all boils…
When Florida-based Chetu hired a telemarketer in the Netherlands, the company demanded the employee turn on his webcam. The employee wasn’t happy with being monitored “for 9 hours per day,” in a program that included screen-sharing and streaming his webcam. When he refused, he was fired, according to public court documents (in Dutch), for what…
Former President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at a rally at the Minden Tahoe Airport in Minden, Nev., Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022. José Luis Villegas, Pool/Associated Press The New York Times reported Trump paid a $3 million lawyer retainer fee for the Mar-a-Lago case. Reporter Maggie Haberman said the high amount shows that Trump understands…
Photo by Rob Kim/Getty Images Top economist Mohamed El-Erian said the Federal Reserve made two big mistakes he thinks will go down in history. “I fear that we risk a very high probability of a damaging recession that was totally avoidable,” he said Sunday. The Fed has been quickly raising interest rates in an attempt…
Image: Google Google’s shutting down Driving Mode, its standalone Assistant-powered dashboard that offers quick access to audio controls, contacts, navigation, and other shortcuts while you’re on the road, according to a report from 9to5Google. The feature, which Google first announced at I / O in 2019, wasn’t officially launched until last year, but now Google’s…
Intelius is an online public data source that makes it easy for anyone to find and look up information about people. The platform provides services for background checks, public records searches, reverse phone lookups, reverse address lookups, and criminal records searches. The average person can use Intelius to find information about a friend, old classmate,…
The social media image that most commanded my attention on Friday morning was a photo of Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, taken in May 1960, on the day that the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam was first opened to the public. Otto Frank was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Nazi…
French Armaments Procurement Agency members observe flight operations on USS Gerald R. Ford in April 2021. US Navy/MCS3 Dalton Lowing France is making plans to build a next-generation aircraft carrier to replace Charles de Gaulle. The new carrier will have the same aircraft launch and recovery systems as the US’s newest carriers. The new French…
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mike Mullen. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Fmr. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mullen said Putin was “a cornered animal” over Ukraine stumbles. “I think he’s more and more dangerous,” Mullen said of the Russian leader on ABC’s “This Week.” Mullen’s comments came after a weekend attack on the strategically vital…