Jessica McGowan/Paras Griffin/Getty Images; Insider Republican Brian Kemp is seeking re-election to a second term as Georgia’s governor. Stacey Abrams is seeking to oust Kemp from office in a rematch of their 2018 gubernatorial contest. Kemp has touted his conservative record as governor, while Abrams wants a new approach in Atlanta. Georgia Republican Gov. Brian…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
Insider Polls closed in Tennessee at 8 p.m. in the eastern time zone and 7 p.m. in the central time zone. Tennessee will elect nine congressional representatives this cycle, though none of the races have attracted a great deal of national attention. Tennesseans will also elect a governor, and vote on two ballot referendums. One,…
Insider Polls close in the state at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. New Jersey will elect its 12-member delegation to the House of Representatives, and it’s poised to be a compelling election cycle given that three of those elections — races in New Jersey’s 3rd District, 5th District and 7th District— are seriously competitive in…
Insider Polls closed in the state at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Rhode Island voted on its two congressional seats, with the contest in Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District shaping up to be seriously consequential for the national control of the House of Representatives. There is also a gubernatorial election in Rhode Island this cycle. …
It turns out Twitter’s new plan for verification will be a two-tiered system after all. Esther Crawford, the twitter VP leading the revamped Twitter Blue subscription confirmed that in addition to the blue checkmarks, the company will also use a separate “official” label for “select” accounts. The label had previously been spotted on internal builds…
Almost ten months after it acquired Josh Wardle’s free browser-based puzzler and cultural phenomenon Wordle for an undisclosed seven-figure sum, the New York Times has announced the game is finally getting a dedicated editor. Since launch, Wordle’s puzzles have drawn from the same list of five-letter words – originally totalling 2,315, but now down by…
Google’s new interface isn’t all that bad. | Image: Google Gmail’s permanent switch that moves everyone over to a new integrated view starts this month. In a blog post published on Tuesday, Google announced it’s getting rid of the option to revert back to the previous Gmail UI, so we’re all just going to have…
Your homescreen could look different with the new mode. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Apple is working on a brand new “Custom Accessibility Mode” for iOS, according to evidence found by 9to5Mac in the second iOS 16.2 developer beta. The company apparently says this mode offers a “customizable, streamlined way to…
Enlarge / An Open Connect Appliance server from around 2013 that a Redditor acquired. (credit: PoisonWaffle3 / Reddit) A Reddit user named PoisonWaffle3 recently acquired a 2013-era Netflix cache server that had been pulled from service and wiped for disposal, which marks a rare occasion where the public has been able to get a look…
Enlarge / A field of solar panels and windmills in the desert. (credit: Getty) On Monday, the Energy Information Agency released its annual figures for how the US generated electrical power during 2021. The year saw lots of changes as the country moved out of the pandemic, with coal, wind, and solar power all seeing…