It would be unusual for Trump to meddle with the DOJ’s ongoing litigation, antitrust expert George Hay told Business Insiderbut then again, “Trump is a bit more of a wild card.” “It’s very rare that, at the presidential level, there’s any attempt to influence the course of cases which have already been filed. Those have […]
A week after catastrophic floods, some families are unsure if their relatives are alive. The government has still not issued a public tally of the missing.
Reuters Divers have concentrated their search for missing bodies in garages and a multi-storey car park in the town of Aldaia Spanish rescuers are focusing their search for missing people on underground garages and a multi-storey car park following last week’s devastating floods in Valencia. The death toll after a year’s worth of rain fell […]
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 59, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about HotWired and DRAM and Mike Solanawatching The Diplomatjamming […]
Rescue workers in Argentina were scrambling to reach people trapped under debris after a hotel collapsed, with one person confirmed dead. The 10-storey Dubrovnik hotel, in the coastal city of Villa Gesell, collapsed early on Tuesday, with a local describing the scene as resembling a “horror movie”. Up to 15 people are believed to have […]
Sear points to Lynn’s estimation of the IQ of Angola being based on information from just 19 people and that of Eritrea being based on samples of children living in orphanages. “The problem with it is that the data Lynn used to generate this dataset is just bullshit, and it’s bullshit in multiple dimensions,” Rutherford […]
In 2022, the Republican National Committee sued Google with claims that it intentionally used Gmail’s spam filter to suppress Republicans’ fundraising emails. A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in August 2023, ruling that Google correctly argued that the RNC claims were barred by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. In January 2023, the Federal […]
Fed up Londoners Apparently, some London residents are getting fed up with social media influencers whose reviews make long lines of tourists at their favorite restaurants, sometimes just for the likes. Christian Calgie, a reporter for London-based news publication Daily Express, pointed out this trend on X yesterday, noting the boom of Redditors referring people […]
For years, Google has included an extra search box within some search results, encouraging you to dig further and look only within a specific website. But now that sitelinks search box is going away because “usage has dropped.” It’s been over ten years since we initially announced the sitelinks search box in Google Searchand over […]
Google is making a big change to company leadership. In a memo to staff posted on ThursdayGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai announced that Prabhakar Raghavan, the senior vice president in charge of search, ads, and other important segments, will now take on the role of chief technologist. “Prabhakar has decided it’s time to make a big […]
