• Sun. Sep 8th, 2024

First Lady Jill Biden unveils White House holiday decorations

First Lady Jill Biden unveiled this year’s White House holiday decorations on Monday, aiming to infuse the season with “Magic, Wonder and Joy,” the theme for 2023. First lady Jill…

Lapse, the photo app that forced users to invite friends, is running out of steam

Lapse, a photo-sharing app that growth hacked its way to the top of the App Store earlier this year, is starting to lose steam. The app, which had forced users…

UPS and FedEx are no longer the top delivery companies in the US

Both UPS and FedEx have been eclipsed as the largest courier companies in the US by Amazon, which delivered more packages to US homes in recent years than both delivery…

Ukraine deserves major praise for maritime wins, beating back Russia along Black Sea

Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive has disappointed many in the West who were hoping for breakthroughs like last year’s liberation of Kharkiv and Kherson. But critics are looking by land when they…

New Zealand Scraps World’s First Generational Smoking Ban

New Zealand has scrapped the world’s first generational smoking ban, a yr after the nation handed the laws. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon, who was sworn in on Monday, introduced his…

How ‘Project Runway’ and ‘Ramy’ Depict Palestinian Life

Photo-Illustration: Photos: Getty, Hulu This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In “Freedom,” the tenth episode of…

Magnitude 3.5 quake reported near Bakersfield

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported early Monday about 22 miles from Bakersfield, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred at 2:37 a.m. about 25 miles from Tehachapi,…

Judge to deliberate competition harm vs Google’s gains in search antitrust trial

The U.S. Justice Department wrapped the evidentiary phase of its antitrust trial against Google a couple of weeks ago, with closing arguments set for May 2024. At its core is…

Meta spokesman Andy Stone on Russia’s ‘wanted’ list

Meta spokesperson Andy Stone is on Russia’s “wanted” list, the latest twist in an information war playing out alongside the invasion of Ukraine. Russian authorities classified Meta as a “terrorist…

Yup hacks together a cross-posting app for X, Threads, Bluesky and others

Decentralized social networking may be the future, but in the meantime, there are a lot of Twitter alternatives to keep up with. A new app called Yup aims to help…