Signal, the secure messaging app beloved by millions of privacy-conscious users, is beta-testing an Instagram-inspired Stories feature. Who said cybersecurity couldn’t be fun? In an Oct. 5 post to a Signal community board about new beta features, the app announced testers would soon have access to a new way of sharing photos, videos, and even…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Mary Meisenzahl/Insider Olive Garden brought back the Never Ending Pasta Bowl with a nearly 30% price increase. It sounds like a good deal, but it’s nearly impossible to eat enough pasta to make it worthwhile. The Create Your Own Pasta dish makes more sense for most people. Olive Garden just brought back its famous Never…
Young ambitious people flock to McKinsey, which prides itself on being a morally ethical firm — but a new book reveals otherwise. Gallo Images/Getty Images After interviewing almost 100 current and former employees, two NYT reporters reveal the true scope of McKinsey’s activities. The firm’s obsessive secrecy benefits McKinsey more than its customers – especially…
A graffiti sign to a foodbank in Leeds, UK Daniel Harvey Gonzalez/In Pictures via Getty Images As the country grapples with a soaring cost-of-living crisis, food-bank usage in the UK is rising. People are struggling to feed their families and heat their homes. At a food bank in West London, people told Insider their fears…
Mr Doodle covered his entire home with doodle art. Gareth Fuller/PA Images via Getty Images Sam Cox, known as Mr Doodle, covered his home with doodles to create a “living artwork.” Cox purchased the six-bedroom house in Kent, UK, for $1.5 million, per reports. He used 900 liters of white paint, along with several hundred…
The fates of Apple and Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer TSCM have grown inextricably intertwined since the advent of the iPhone. As each subsequent generation of iPhone hurtled past the technological capabilities of its predecessor, the processors that powered them grew increasingly complex and specialized — to the point that, today, TSCM has become the only chip…
The future of PCs looks like the Surface Pro X, and Microsoft had better make it work. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge It’s easy to forget now, but Microsoft’s first Surface was a huge risk. By diving into the PC market, Microsoft was competing with its Windows partners. By combining laptop and…
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Maybe you’ll find Substack’s new app more comfortable. Joyce Busola / Unsplash This story has been updated. It was first published on March 10, 2022. After seven months of Apple exclusivity, Substack’s mobile app has arrived on Android. Now, both software ecosystems have access to a reading tool the newsletter platform has touted as “like…
Windows 11 has a couple of tweaks to security settings which can help PC gamers get smoother frame rates, Microsoft has advised. In a blog post spotted by Tom’s Hardware, Microsoft supplies instructions on how to switch off two features that provide beefier security for Windows 11 PCs, thereby delivering better performance in games –…