If you’re leery of flying on a Boeing plane, you are not alone.
Search for “Boeing” on TikTok or Reddit or X (formerly Twitter), and you’ll find thousands of people with similar fears. Those fears stem from the spate of media reports of incidents on Boeing planes since the beginning of the year, most infamously the one on January 5, when Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
Uber and Lyft are always trying to outdo each other, but the latest battle between the rideshare services is roping in one of the biggest musical acts of the 21st Century. Call it Showdown at the Queen Bey Corral.
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album dropped on March 29, with 27 new songs in what AP is calling “
Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to prison for 25 years on Thursday for having pilfered customer funds from his crypto exchange FTX, became famous for thinking about pretty much everything in life as a series of gambles. And the correct decision was always to bet on whatever option had, in economist-s
This story originally appeared in The Technology Letter and is republished here with permission.
First EV decline since 2020?
The past few days have seen a passel of negative data points r
Her favorite Taylor Swift song greets her when she gets home from work, and it brings a sense of comfort because her house is smart enough to know what she wants. Another person is grateful his home knows when to lower the thermostat during peak hours. A push notification lets yet someone else know that a flood sensor is going off in his home while he is away on business. But he does not panic because luckily, he paired the smart sensor with a motorized valve ball that can automatically clos
A former TikTok employee sent letters of complaint this month to the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Labor alleging that TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is sabotaging workers’ ability to cash in their stock options, by making it functionally impossible for them to do so freely.
Patrick Spaulding Ryan, who worked at TikTok from 2020 to 2022, says across his series of complaints the issue is the result of an unregulated corporate culture at ByteDance that mistr
Reddit is an online repository containing nearly endless information on every imaginable topic. So maybe there’s irony in me steering you there for tips on how to be more productive. But there are some very helpful subreddits that can help you stay motivated, disciplined, and efficient—all while saving a ton of time.
Here are five of the site’s very best productivity-boosting c
Starlink’s bid for more spectrum allowance in the U.S. isn’t going as it hoped. This week, the Federal Communications Commission shot down its request to use regions of spectrum in the 1.6/2.4 GHz bands and 2 GHz bands that include bands exclusive to Globalstar ($GSAT) and Dish. Starlink would have used these bands for its mobile connectivity service.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for his role in the fraud and conspiracy scandal that took place at the crypto exchange. That was far less than the 40 to 50 years prosecutors were
For years, groups of celebrities, human-rights organizations, even regular old users have asked Meta to take LGBTQ worries about safety more seriously. These requests go back at least a decade and stretch to as recently as January, when Facebook’s oversight board