Elon Musk wants to call off his deal to buy Twitter. Getty Images Elon Musk’s long-awaited purchase of Twitter was finally completed last week. The deal is expected to bring changes to the platform, including charges for some services and looser moderation. Read on to see how to deactivate your Twitter account, and protect your…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
The winner of a roughly $21.2 million lottery jackpot claimed a prize dressed as cartoon character “GG Bond” on September 11, 2019 in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province of China. It is traditional in China for lottery winners to claim their prizes in costume so they can remain anonymous. Wei Liang/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images) A…
Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ilya PITALEV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by ILYA PITALEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images A former US ambassador said Russian use of nukes in Ukraine would “end” Putin’s military. Kurt Volker said that Putin is “increasingly desperate” and is embroiled in a war he can’t win. Putin recently said he wouldn’t use…
The Federal Reserve will publish its latest interest rate decision Wednesday. Alex Wong/Getty Images US households have around $1.2 trillion in pandemic savings, according to Wells Fargo. But that could be bad for the Federal Reserve’s inflation battle, the bank warned. Companies will keep hiking prices as long as Americans have savings to dip into,…
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Istanbul on March 13. Xinhua via Getty Images Greece and Turkey have two of NATO’s largest militaries and are in an important corner of Europe. They also have longstanding disputes that continue to roil their relationship and affect the alliance. Their tensions…
Twitter’s “Product Trust” team has identified the feature as high risk, according to the email cited by the Washington Post. Jim Watson/Getty Images Twitter is working on a feature that would charge users for video content, per The Washington Post. The feature is being referred to as “Paywalled Video,” an internal email seen by the…
What’s stopping me (or you) getting an iPad Pro? The cost, for one. And a belief that anything I’d want to use an iPad for, I can already do with my eighth-generation vanilla model. That said, Nathan Ingraham’s review of the M2 iPad Pro did make me check if my bank balance could sustain the…
QR Codes are small square black and white matrix barcodes that contain certain information, such as a website address, app, password or images. When scanned with your phone, the QR Code will take you directly to a specific webpage, menu, payment screen, app, or offer specific information unique to the code. QR stands for Quick…
Xiaomi’s 12S Ultra has been used to create a new concept phone, one that can take a full-size Leica lens and mate it with that 1-inch camera sensor. The new concept is one that Xiaomi has started to tease across its social pages while a video also shows off just how things might go down….
The latest PlayStation Plus subscription figures have fallen again, Sony has confirmed. There are two million fewer subscribers than this time last year, despite Sony’s big relaunch of the service back in June. On the other side, Microsoft missed its own targets for Game Pass subscriber growth, but still grew a healthy 28 percent year-on-year….