Staff members work at a service point to provide water and food for Foxconn employees before their departure on October 30, 2022 in Zhengzhou, Henan Province of China. VCG/Getty Images Foxconn denied claims on social media that some of its workers died from COVID in their dormitory. Unverified videos circulating online claimed that eight workers…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
TL;DR: Unlimited lifetime membership to StreamSkill.com Software Training is on sale for £50.80, saving you 95% on list price. Learning new software can be a challenge. Even ubiquitous software like Excel still can have a steep learning curve, and you may not always know if there’s a feature one dropdown menu away that could have…
Amazon is becoming an ad behemoth. Nick Cammett / Getty Images Amazon has frozen headcount at its growing advertising business, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday. This came days after Amazon projected its slowest four-quarter growth ever. Amazon is the third-largest digital advertising platform in the US by revenue, after Google and Meta. Big Tech is bunkering…
Elon Musk; Gulfstream G700. Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images; Gregg Newton/Reuters Elon Musk recently bought a Gulfstream G700, according to Austonia. Musk’s new jet is expected to replace his Gulfstream G650ER. Musk currently owns four jets, including three Gulstream and one Dassault aircrafts. Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, is a big fan of…
Google has laid Hangouts to rest, a couple of years after it first announced that it was going to push people to use Chat, its Slack-like app, instead. After allowing users to move to Chat on their own in 2021, Google phased out the Hangouts Chat app for Android and iOS in July. Users were…
Threat actors are adjusting their methods and phishing is increasingly coming from all directions, says the Netskope Cloud and Threat Report.Read MoreRead More
Is the future of chess to be found in Chess960?. FIDE On Sunday, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) crowned US Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura its newest world champion, although the variation of the game he conquered is one few outsiders even know exists—Fischer Random Chess. But despite its obscurity, the version may be key to the…
The Range Rover Sport PHEV. Dan Carney Electric vehicle advocates have waited for decades for the technology to mature sufficiently such that the vehicle’s driving range, performance, and utility are sufficient to meet the needs of most drivers—and for EVs to sell at prices that are within reasonable reach for many buyers. We’ve reached that…
Autumn can be a tricky time for car care. DepositPhotos This article was originally featured on The Drive. The autumn season is always something to look forward to, particularly because of the spectacularly saturated, beautiful colors that many trees’ leaves produce just before they fall to Earth’s top-most layer of crust where they eventually turn to brown. They’re…
A prolific investor in climate-tech companies in Canada is back with a second fund for “low-carbon technologies” — only this time the firm plans to pump less money into the scene, over a longer period of time. The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) came out with a new, $400 million climate-tech fund on Wednesday,…