Elon Musk and the Gulfstream G650ER. Patrick Pleul/picture alliance/Getty Images/Courtesy of Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation 20-year-old Jack Sweeney has created myriad Twitter accounts that track private jets, like Elon Musk’s. To dodge Sweeney and other trackers, many celebrities have signed up for free federal programs that help them fly incognito. The programs are not foolproof, and…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Hey, y’all. Writing to you from New York City, I’m your host, Jordan Parker Erb. What did you do in the brief window that Instagram was down yesterday? Maybe you laid face down in the dark or maybe you didn’t even notice the outage. Either way, it appears to be back up, so we can…
Stephen King said he’d quit Twitter if the company charges $20 to be verified. Leigh Vogel/WireImage/JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images Elon Musk said Twitter has bills to pay after Stephen King threatened to leave the site over a $20 verification fee. Musk suggested to King that verified Twitter users could be charged $8 a month….
Felix Cesare/Getty Images Oil benchmarks could pass $115 a barrel by the end of the first quarter of 2023, according to Goldman Sachs’ Jeff Currie. Tightening supply will drive crude prices higher, the bank’s head of commodities research said. Currie added that OPEC+ members have given themselves “optionality” to raise oil production if demand climbs….
Starship’s first orbital test flight could finally take place next month. Mark Kirasich, a senior NASA official overseeing the development of the Artemis moon program, has revealed the information during a livestreamed NASA Advisory Council meeting. According to Reuters, Kirasich said that NASA tracks four major Starship flights and that the first one is coming…
Apple hasn’t put a backlit logo on its MacBooks since 2015, but that could all change based on a new patent the company has filed. The famous Apple logo was once the first thing that you saw when you walked into any coffee shop, but that hasn’t been the case since it was killed off…
There are a number of clever features built into Apple’s iOS software – some of which you will find in our iPhone tips and tricks – but a feature called Back Tap is one of our absolute favourites. We love it so much, we felt it deserved its own explainer. Back Tap turns the Apple logo…
Valve has revealed that Steam’s desktop client now supports the Steam Deck user interface. So it’s possible to have that clean UI on your PC with just a few steps. We’re big fans of the Steam Deck’s user-friendly design for accessing and browsing both the Steam store and the library. If you are too and…
If you imagined what a Hummer e-bike might be, you’d come up with the Hummer EV all-wheel drive e-bike – and now you can buy one. GMC is still in the midst of its Hummer EV rollout but it’s already launching an e-bike to go with it, although it isn’t actually building it. Instead, the…
It looks like The Last of Us TV adaptation will be premiering as soon as 15th January. There have been numerous reports of the show’s release date popping up on HBO Max’s homepage. These have been verified by Eurogamer. For now, the date is currently only visible to HBO account holders in the US. At…