In case you missed it, the millions of people trying to get tickets for Taylor Swift’s upcoming The Eras Tour basically put Ticketmaster into meltdown mode earlier this week. As The Verge reports, fans lucky enough to get presale codes encountered continuously crashing queues, massive wait times, and systems that wouldn’t accept their information (such as […]
Google has announced that its Health Connect app is now available in beta on the Play Store. As TechCrunch reports, the Health Connect app is designed to centralize access to health and fitness data from various eligible apps. Currently, more than 10 health and fitness apps are launching integrations with Health Connect, including MyFitnessPal, Oura and Peloton, and more […]
NASA launched its massive Artemis I moon rocket early Wednesday, bringing the United States a step closer to landing on the lunar surface for the first time in 50 years since the end of the Apollo program. According Florida Today, NASA teams fueled the 322-foot Space Launch System rocket with liquid hydrogen and oxygen at 3:50 p.m. […]
The Verge reports that the Space Force’s mysterious X-37B spaceplane landed back on Earth after spending a record-breaking two and a half years (908 days) in orbit. It landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, November 12th at 5:22AM ET, marking its sixth successful mission so far. While the agency is pretty tight-lipped as to what […]
The Verge reports that Google is rolling out a new software update for the new Nest Wifi Pro to address the slow internet speeds experienced by some users. The company’s “currently investigating reports of a small number of users experiencing reduced internet speeds on Nest Wifi Pro routers,” said Sanjay Noronha, Google Nest Wifi’s product […]
One of the biggest challenges in video game preservation is figuring out how to actually present old games. As The Verge reports, there is an expansive new release, made by Digital Eclipse to celebrate Atari’s 50th anniversary, which experts say is simply the best way to experience a retro collection. Available on just about every […]
Meta has announced it will lay off 11,000 employees or around 13 percent of the company’s total staff. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news in a blog post, saying he was at fault for being overoptimistic about the company’s future growth based on a pandemic surge. “At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the […]
As The Associate Press (AP) reports, federal judge rejected a bid for a new trial for disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes after concluding a key prosecution witness’s recent remorseful attempt to contact her wasn’t enough to award her another chance to avoid a potential prison sentence for defrauding investors at her blood-testing company. The ruling issued late […]
With the advent of Apple Watches and Fitbits, it’s easy to track your own health metrics at home. But knowing what to track is just as important as having the equipment to do it. And, there is one important health metric many people aren’t tracking yet that health experts say you should: heart-rate variability, or HRV, the amount of […]
As The Verge reports, Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder and former CEO, responded to the mass layoffs under Elon Musk’s ownership by saying he owns “the responsibility for why everyone is in this situation” and that he grew the company “too quickly.” On Friday, Musk laid off about half of Twitter’s workforce, affecting employees across all departments. […]