Monthly Archives: November 2022

Live Results: Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams face off in the Georgia gubernatorial election, a rematch of their 2018 contest

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…

Live Results: Rhode Island votes in congressional and state elections

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. …

Twitter’s revamped verification scheme will have two checkmarks, and one isn’t for sale

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…

Wordle is getting a dedicated editor to curate its word list

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…

Apple is apparently working on a new ‘streamlined’ accessibility mode for iOS

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…

Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage

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…