The Las Vegas Strip is home to more than 150,000 hotel rooms. These range from low-end “place to sleep and shower rooms” to luxury suites that offer pools, basketball courts and unimaginable amenities. It’s a Read more…
If you’ve noticed that some of your favorite grocery items have getting smaller in size without the price changing, then you’re noticing the phenomenon of shrinkflation. And you’re not alone — because Cookie Monster has Read more…
2024 will be a historic year for elections, with more than two billion voters across 50 countries heading to the polls — including the United States, India and Mexico — according to the World Economic Forum. As these elections Read more…
Months before deepfaked, sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift proliferated across social media, the same thing was happening at a high school in New Jersey. The victim of that incident, however, was not Swift. It Read more…
It’s time to update your iPhone again. iOS 17.4 officially dropped yesterday and is likely available on your iPhone as an over-the-air update right now. Typical of these iOS-dot releases, this is not a redesign Read more…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Epic’s plans to release its own third-party app store on iOS in the EU could be in trouble after Apple terminated the developer account it planned to use. Read more…
Tom Brady is set to enter the broadcast booth for the 2024 NFL season with Fox — and it looks like his legendary former Bill Belichick may cross into the media side as well. But Read more…
The Bank of Canada held the overnight rate unchanged for a fifth consecutive meeting, extending a pause that started after the last hike in July last year. Softer inflation data in January made sure that Read more…
The Bank of Canada maintained the overnight rate at 5.0%, while stating that it will continue with Quantitative Tightening (QT). The Bank highlighted the slowing in economic momentum, stating that growth “remained weak and below Read more…
While modern planes are built to not just withstand an unexpected lightning strike but even fly in weather when thunder is likely, the idea of one’s plane being hit by a lightning bolt is enough Read more…