Enlarge / A class-action lawsuit claims that Apple products, like the iPad mini, are sold almost exclusively by Amazon itself on its own marketplace, harming customers’ ability to pay less in a competitive market. (credit: Getty Images) In early 2018, there were more than 600 companies you could buy Apple products from on Amazon’s marketplace,…
Monthly Archives: December 2022
Enlarge / Not pictured: the things that are far more dangerous to fortress-dwelling dwarves, like poor site planning, miasma, and a lack of drink. After a long night of playing Dwarf Fortress, I had a concerned look on my face when I finally went to bed. My wife asked what was wrong. “I think I…
Enlarge / Dmitry Rogozin, second from left, has been active in the Donbas region of Ukraine. (credit: Dmitry Rogozin/Telegram) It has been nearly five months since Dmitry Rogozin was sacked as director general of Roscosmos, the Russian state-owned space corporation. Later, a Russian space official acknowledged that Rogozin was removed from this high-profile post to…
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Construction starts on the world’s biggest radio telescope, which will ‘hear’ signals billions of light-years away
Western Australia will soon host over 130,000 Christmas tree-like antennae. Michale Goh/ICRAR-Curtin Construction on a new radio telescope array composed, partially, of over 130,000 Christmas tree-shaped antennas in the Australian Outback has officially begun. Once completed, the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) could become “one of humanity’s biggest-ever scientific endeavors,” according to the project’s Director-General….
Circle Internet Financial (Circle), the company behind the popular USDC stablecoin, called off its merger with a blank check company this morning, ending its SPAC-led run toward going public. Circle’s SPAC deal made news when announced last year and earlier this year when it was repriced. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it…
Zenly, the popular social mapping app that Snap acquired five years ago, is going to shut down on February 3rd, 2023. This is going to be a sad day as there is nothing quite like Zenly. The team based in Paris managed to create an app that was at the intersection of a utility app…
Just days after co-CEO Bret Taylor announced his resignation, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced that he will be stepping down in January. Business Insider first reported the news. Salesforce has confirmed the news by email. The company also announced that Lidiane Jones, who has been the executive VP & GM for digital experiences clouds at…
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Today’s top deals include a Samsung Galaxy Watch5 Pro, Eufy robot vacuum, and Paramount+ subscriptions
We’ve rounded up the best deals of the day on Dec. 5 — here are our top picks: BEST TECH DEAL: Samsung Galaxy Watch5 Pro Titanium Smartwatch 45mm BT — $379.99 $449.99 (save $70) + $50 Promotional Best Buy E-Gift Card BEST HOME DEAL: Eufy 25C Robot Vacuum — $96 $249.99 (save $147.99) BEST STREAMING DEAL:…
Ready to upgrade your kitchen? Here are some of the best kitchen appliance deals as of Dec. 5. BEST CROCKPOT DEAL: Crock-Pot Oval Manual Slow Cooker, 7qt., for braising, stews, and slow cooking. $24.99 $49.99 (save $25) BEST AIR FRYER DEAL: Bella Pro Series Digital Air Fryer, 8qt., perfect for healthy meals in a pinch….
The whole word is going goblin mode, it seems. The good folks over at Oxford, the published behind the Oxford English Dictionary, announced that “goblin mode” was 2022’s Word of the Year. In what is surely not a coincidence, this is also the first year Oxford opened the competition to a public vote. Basically we’ve…