Image: Google Google’s shutting down Driving Mode, its standalone Assistant-powered dashboard that offers quick access to audio controls, contacts, navigation, and other shortcuts while you’re on the road, according to a report from 9to5Google. The feature, which Google first announced at I / O in 2019, wasn’t officially launched until last year, but now Google’s…
Intelius is an online public data source that makes it easy for anyone to find and look up information about people. The platform provides services for background checks, public records searches, reverse phone lookups, reverse address lookups, and criminal records searches. The average person can use Intelius to find information about a friend, old classmate,…
The social media image that most commanded my attention on Friday morning was a photo of Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, taken in May 1960, on the day that the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam was first opened to the public. Otto Frank was the only member of his immediate family to survive the Nazi…
French Armaments Procurement Agency members observe flight operations on USS Gerald R. Ford in April 2021. US Navy/MCS3 Dalton Lowing France is making plans to build a next-generation aircraft carrier to replace Charles de Gaulle. The new carrier will have the same aircraft launch and recovery systems as the US’s newest carriers. The new French…
Former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mike Mullen. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Fmr. Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mullen said Putin was “a cornered animal” over Ukraine stumbles. “I think he’s more and more dangerous,” Mullen said of the Russian leader on ABC’s “This Week.” Mullen’s comments came after a weekend attack on the strategically vital…
Epic Games and Match Group are attempting to expand their lawsuits against Google to include additional allegations against the search giant. In a motion filed on Friday with the District Court of California, the two companies accused Google of paying off developers that had the means and ability to create competing Android app stores. Specifically,…
Caring for your indoor greenery just got easier with the Wet Pot Systems Self-Watering Pots. Thanks to its simple function, it offers maintenance-free indoor garden growth and helps your flora to flourish. Best of all, the pots are made of 100% natural materials without any chemicals, so you can grow veggies, too. Simply place your…
Ye’s Twitter account is locked after he violated that platform’s policies. | Photo by Edward Berthelot/GC Images Twitter confirmed that it locked Kanye West, who now goes by “Ye,” out of his account after he posted an anti-Semitic tweet on Saturday (via BuzzFeed News). “The account in question has been locked due to a violation…
Viktoria Ljungman/Instagram Viktoria Ljungman, 23, was killed after the plane stalled and crashed during a flight lesson. Oluwagbohunmi Oyebode, 18, pointed the nose of the plane too high, causing it to stall, police say. Oyebode and another 18-year-old student on the plane suffered life-threatening injuries from the crash. A Swedish flight instructor was killed during…
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Meadows told Klain that “no president” received a daily briefing, per Maggie Haberman’s new book. In “Confidence Man,” Haberman detailed how Klain asked for Biden to get a daily intelligence brief. “No president ever does that. That’s never happened,” Meadows responded, according to the…