University of Idaho students, community members are ‘getting out of Dodge’ after 4 classmates were killed in a ‘targeted attack,’ police say

Candles and flowers are left at a make-shift memorial honoring four slain University of Idaho students outside the Mad Greek restaurant in downtown Moscow, Idaho, on Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios University of Idaho students are leaving town after the shocking off-campus killings of four classmates. Latah County Sheriff’s Deputy Scott Mikolajczyk…

Snapchat Plus unlocks new and exclusive features — here’s how much it costs and how to sign up

Snapchat Plus comes with a new icon. Snapchat Snapchat Plus is Snapchat’s subscription plan, available on iPhone and Android. For $3.99 per month, Snapchat Plus gives you access to new and exclusive features.  Features include longer story expiration, custom notification sounds, and camera color borders. Between Twitter Blue and Tumblr Blaze, it seems like every…

See the electric Lucid Gravity SUV, a Tesla rival that will have 7 seats and more range than any competitor

The Lucid Gravity. Lucid Motors EV startup Lucid revealed new details about the Gravity, its SUV launching in 2024.  The Gravity will have seating options for five, six, or seven passengers.  Lucid says it’ll be as quick as a supercar with the spaciousness of a large SUV.  Lucid Motors gave the world its best glimpse…

Elizabeth Holmes’ friends and family filed 130 letters asking for lenient sentencing, written by everyone like Cory Booker and Tim Draper to David Sokol and ex-Theranos staff — here are some highlights

Brittany Hosea-Small/Reuters Elizabeth Holmes could get decades in prison at her sentencing Friday. Prosecutors want a 15-year sentence. The defense, meanwhile, has asked for an 18-month sentence and submitted 130 letters from friends and family seeking leniency. The letters come from the likes of venture capitalist Timothy Draper and Senator Cory Booker and include revelations…

Days after Biden’s face-to-face meeting with Xi Jinping, Kamala Harris is making a rare trip to a South China Sea hotspot

Vice President Kamala Harris meets US Navy sailors at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan on September 28, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis Vice President Kamala Harris is traveling to Thailand and the Philippines this week. Harris will stop in Palawan, becoming the highest-ranking US official to visit the Philippine island. Palawan looks over the South China Sea,…

Teens don’t seem super concerned about social media’s effects on their lives

With widespread misinformation, echo chambers and dubious fact-checking — not to mention Twitter appearing on the verge of collapse — you might expect today’s teenagers to view social media as a cesspool. But a survey released today by the Pew Research Center paints a significantly less dire picture of how today’s teens perceive social media’s…