Has it been 11 years? For the past 11 years we’ve provided you with the hottest, trend-busting, and thoughtful gifts for Christmas. This year is no different, and we’re delivering the gift guide in two installments this year. This year, we’re lending a hand to the men and women small business owners who provide economic...
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CashApp Users Must Act NOW to Get Settlement Dollars
CashApp users who experienced fraudulent or unauthorized withdrawals are eligible for a class action lawsuit against the company. CashApp and its parent company Block, Inc. didn’t properly notify customers after one of their employees accessed user accounts without customer permission. What Happened? A CashApp employee inappropriately accessed user accounts. CashApp discovered their employee illegally accessing...
Cryptos Up After Trump Election News
Cryptocurrencies rallied since news of Donald Trump winning last week’s US presidential election. All cryptos are up. However, since confirming Elon Musk as co-head of an as yet established agency, Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the non-real asset backed memecoin, Dogecoin has exploded in value. Dogecoin was trading at $0.39 overnight Wednesday night. The coin...
GM Doubles Down on Ditching CarPlay and Android Auto
GM announced plans to promote their own in-car phone software experience Ultifi in place of CarPlay and Android Auto. They are accelerating plans to build a new system with 2024 Chevy Blazer being the first car without CarPlay and Android Auto. GM is hustling in a bid to capture more driver and passenger data. The...
Japanese Researchers Hope Wooden Satellites Alleviate Space Junk Problem
Wood paneling may conjure images of 70s and 80s era couches covered in plastic, but it’s the latest material being tested for Earth orbiting satellites. The satellite was built by Japanese researchers at Kyoto University and blasted to the International Space Station on a SpaceX flight. Researcher’s named the 900g cubesat, LignoSat. Named after the...
Facebook In Bid to Bring Its Llama AI to US Government
On Wednesday, Meta Facebook held its third quarter earnings call and dropped this gem: [Meta is] working with the public sector to adopt Llama across the US government Mark Zuckerberg So far, Meta is claiming they’re partnering with the US State Department to explore how their large language model, Llama, could be used to bring...
FranchISees Rejoice After Winning ‘Right to Repair’ Their McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines
Yesterday’s big news is one which the billions and billions served by McDonald’s are happy to hear. The US Copyright Office has granted restaurant owners the ‘right to repair’ equipment leased from franchisers or parent companies. How It All Began Ice cream has always been a problem at McDonald’s. Regardless of your hailing generation, odds...
2024 Weather App Roundup
Thanks to climate change weather is getting harder to predict, and weather events are getting more severe. Most folks, myself included, simply look outside to find out what the weather’s going to be. But what do you do if you want to prep for a weather event? Just in time for Hurricane Helene we present...
NaNoWriMo: Banning AI Is Ableist
To be filed in the excessive political correctness department, the National Novel Writing Month Organization, affectionately called NaNoWriMo, is refusing to ban AI use in its annual, month-long writing event. NaNoWriMo is a non-profit organization that helps people achieve their goals and make their voice heard through writing. November is National Writing Month. Each year...
Tetris Is Back with Tetris Forever
Just in time for the long, Labor Day weekend, Tetris Forever come to PC and Nintendo Switch. Tetris Forever is a docu-game. Part documentary, part game, an hour of footage detailing the history of Tetris from the original Electronika 60 console to present day will accompany 15 different versions of the people’s favorite. Most GenXers...