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I’m due to make $1,170 just by switching bank accounts. It only took 10 minutes to do it each time — here’s how I did it.

Many banks offer cash bonuses for switching your account. [email protected] A number of banks offer incentives to encourage you to switch your account. Chris Stokel-Walker set up new accounts and claimed the cash payments. He is expecting to make more than $1,000 doing this. He explains how it works. Many people are looking for new…

Russians are flooding a Kremlin-run, Quora-style site with anxious questions about the Ukraine war

A pedestrian walks past a poster displaying Russian soldiers with a slogan reading ‘Army of Russia – Army of professionals’ decorating a street in Moscow on October 24, 2022. YURI KADOBNOV/AFP via Getty Images Russians are flooding a Kremlin-linked site with questions about the Ukraine war. The queries posted to the site range from financial…

Meet an island salesman who started as a tour guide and now helps the super-rich buy and sell private islands all over the world

Chris Krolow, the founder of Private Islands Inc. Courtesy of Chris Krolow Founder Chris Krolow runs a marketplace for buying, selling, and renting private islands. He discovered demand as a tour guide when he was 19 and built a website. He’s since expanded to building resorts on islands, which he rents to couples for $3,950…

Nintendo’s retro controllers now work on iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and Mac

At WWDC 2022 earlier this year, Apple announced a bunch of gaming improvements rolling out with iOS 16, including support for Nintendo’s Joy-Con and Pro controllers. Now, you’ll also be able to use Nintendo’s modernized retro gamepads with your iPhones, iPads, Mac computers and even Apple TVs. Developer Steven Troughton-Smith has discovered that iOS 16.1…