Wonder what those green and yellow tiles all over your social media feeds are? It’s Wordle, a new no-frills word game that has charmed the internet. Think of it as Mastermind, but with words instead of colored pegs. Or a mini crossword... Read More
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Everyone knows that you have to put your phone into airplane mode before taking off on a flight so it doesn’t interfere with the pilots’ communication, but it turns out there is something else that makes your phone far more dangerous... Read More
Inflation is pummeling the retail sector, but now retailers are reportedly hurting for another reason — shoplifting. Rates of shoplifting have drastically increased since the onset of the pandemic, which is consistent with... Read More
Walmart and Kroeger are hiking the prices of at-home COVID test kits after a deal with the White House to sell them for $14 expired. In September, the two retailers and Amazon agreed to sell two-pack rapid testing kits at a discounted price... Read More
With 2021 now in the history books, iHeartMedia says it saw monthly downloads on the iHeartPodcast Network increase 90% last year to 337 million shows listened to during the past 12 months. And its monthly reach grew 49% to 32 million listeners in the... Read More
Twitter just sold MoPub, its mobile ad platform, to a game maker/marketing software provider called AppLovin. MoPub sold for $1.05 billion in cash. MoPub brought Twitter $188 million in revenue in 2020, but the platform has since decided to... Read More
Ride-share spending by consumers globally will exceed US$937 billion by 2026 – comparable to 50 times the combined annual revenue of Transport for London, New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Beijing Metro in 2021 –... Read More
Lake Superior State University has released its annual list of Banished Words List. For 2022, LSSU received more than 1,000 nominations of words and terms for banishment for misuse, overuse, and uselessness to help compile the list. This year,... Read More
Many Americans questioned what the rules were for involuntary denied boarding or bumping compensation. Today, as we leave the pandemic, some airlines are filling planes and have increased their overbooking rates. That translates to more denied... Read More
Short-form video app Triller, which has grown its audience through fighting sports, is going public through a reverse merger. Triller parent TrillerNet will buy publicly traded Seachange International Inc., a video delivery software... Read More
The Consumer Technology Association is handing out free Abbott COVID-19 BinaxNOW self-test kits (Abbott is an exhibitor), which contain two tests, to each attendee who shows up in person to CES 2022 in Las Vegas (January 5-8). That comes as the... Read More
The housing market has been a hot topic of discussion throughout the pandemic, and that’s definitely not about to change — last month, sales of newly-built homes were down 14% YoY as first-time homebuyers struggled to navigate... Read More
A lot of fun and exciting things happened in 2021, but the rise of inflation in the U.S. is not something anyone is stoked about. Oh, and neither were the supply shortages or big corporations’ failure to properly compensate their workers. In... Read More
The good news is that there are things you can do to both minimize your risk of COVID and the consequences from social isolation. Here are five ways to optimize your mental and physical health during another pandemic winter. 1.... Read More
Governor Kathy Hochul has announced two new State testing sites on Long Island to address the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. These sites are aimed providing additional testing options in areas of high need. “To get through this... Read More