TL;DR: Through Nov. 23, you can get the Refurbished Apple MacBook Pro and a Lifetime License of Microsoft Office Home and Business for Mac for just $449.99 instead of $1,648 — that’s a 69% discount. For college students, the holidays spell the end of one semester and soon the beginning of another. If you have…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Former President Donald Trump shake hands with Herschel Walker at his Save America rally at the Georgia National Fairgrounds in Perry, Georgia, on September 25, 2021. Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images Trump furious Republicans are trying to dissuade him from campaigning in Georgia runoff, per Rolling Stone. Trump’s status in the GOP has…
Returning Disney CEO Bob Iger. Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for Vanity Fair Disney stock rose over 8% in premarket Monday after Bob Iger’s shock return as CEO. Iger will replace Bob Chapek, who was ousted as CEO, while working the company looks for a successor. Chapek was dismissed after Disney posted dismal quarterly earnings…
Welcome back! Dan DeFrancesco in NYC. The World Cup officially kicked off yesterday, but things really get rolling today. (Reminder: USA plays today at 2 p.m. EST vs Wales, Friday at 2 p.m. EST vs England, and 11/29 at 2 p.m. EST vs Iran.) A few predictions*: -France doesn’t make it past the group stage (I…
The Bank of England and Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX. Dinendra Haria/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images; Craig Barritt/Getty Images for CARE For Special Children The Bank of England’s deputy governor for financial stability spoke at a conference on Monday. He dubbed the collapse of FTX “the most spectacular failure to date in the crypto ecosystem.”…
People sit and wait to charge electronic devices at a charging station inside the Kherson Railway station on November 19, 2022. Chris McGrath/Getty Images Russian forces withdrew from the southern city of Kherson last week — a major victory for Ukraine. But damaged power infrastructure and plunging temperatures are making life difficult for civilians. The…
While some thought Twitter would fall apart over the weekend, given the engineering constraints it’s now under, it made it to Sunday. And it’s even got one of its most divisive users back. On Friday night, Musk tweeted a poll asking people to vote on whether Twitter should reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account. Trump…
Meta is taking new steps to lock down teens’ privacy settings. The company is making changes to the default privacy settings for teens’ Facebook accounts, and further limiting the ability of “suspicious” adults to message teens on Instagram and Facebook. On Facebook, Meta says it will start automatically changing the default privacy settings on new…
Gaming laptops are usually ridiculously expensive, packing in all sorts of tech to give you great graphics and high FPS, but costing the earth to do so. This Black Friday deal on a Lenovo gaming laptop bucks that trend though, by knocking a nice chunk (up to 33 per cent) off the usual asking price. …
Nintendo has issued copyright strikes against SteamGridDB for images relating to its Switch games. The site allows users to upload custom images for use in their Steam library. Most of these are alternate cover images to customise a game’s appearance in the library, but it’s also used when a cover image doesn’t exist – typically…