Tag: The Verge

Verizon Clears Up ‘Unlimited’ Plan Confusion with New Offerings (Or DO They)?

For the past few years, Verizon has (rather confusingly) offered three different types of “unlimited” data plans, but now the carrier is looking to clear up that confusion by replacing them with four unlimited plans. Sorry, did I say “clear up”? I meant “make everything even more confusing.”   As The Verge reports, the changes […]

Does the Dish T-Mobile Merger Mean the End of the SIM Card?

According to a report by The Verge, the Department of Justice may have just done more to eliminate those little plastic SIM cards you have to use to get your phone to work on a wireless carrier than all of the efforts of Big Tech over the past four years. That’s because it is requiring […]

Moonrise Podcast Explores How We Can Return to the Moon

With the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, there has been plenty of retrospectives and examinations on the impact of the space race and the lunar missions. In addition to a flood of books and documentaries, there are a handful of podcasts as well. One of those new podcasts is The Washington Post’s Moonrise, […]

The Simple Way to Convert Old VHS tapes Into Digital

There are countless ways to remind your family members that you love them. Preserving your home movies, entombed in rapidly-decaying VHS tapes, by converting them into digital files is a thoughtful (and often tear-jerking) way to do that. It’s one of those gifts that’s appropriate at any time in the year, whether you’re celebrating Father’s […]

How to Spot the Best Deals During Amazon Prime Day 2019

Amazon Prime Day 2019, the two-day shopping extravaganza held exclusively for Amazon Prime subscribers, starts Monday, July 15th at 12AM PT / 3AM ET, and ends on July 16th at 11:59PM PT / 2:59AM ET. There will be thousands of deals to check out across every product category on Amazon’s massive online storefront, and some […]

There’s an Earthquake. Did Your ShakeAlert App Warn You?

After the recent earthquake near Los Angeles, some residents were left wondering why their ShakeAlert LA app hadn’t notified them. After all, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked Ridgecrest, California, about 150 miles away, and that quake was the first test of ShakeAlert since the app was released in 2018.  The system was working exactly as […]

New York Allows Early Vaccination for Infants to Combat Measles Outbreaks

As the number of measles cases in the United States has surged, some officials are encouraging parents to get their children vaccinated sooner rather than later. Normally, kids would get their first measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine when they’re about a year old, but given the rise in cases, babies in areas with ongoing measles […]