Six in ten Americans report that the COVID-19 pandemic year has permanently changed their spending and shopping habits, according to a new survey commissioned by shopping platform Slickdeals. The survey of 2,000 general population Americans examined pandemic shopping, spending, and saving trends and revealed that 2020 has forever affected how 60 percent of shoppers budget […]
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Netflix is testing a way to crack down on password sharing. The popular streaming service has been using popups to ask some users to verify their account via email or text, or to “verify later.” “If you don’t live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching,” the screen […]
President Joe Biden’s bid to tackle climate change is running straight through the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry — a much bigger, more influential foe than Democrats faced when they took on the coal industry during the Obama years. Coal dominated U.S. power generation for decades, with the bulk of that fuel […]
Uber and Lyft have teamed up to create a database of drivers ousted from their ride-hailing services for complaints about sexual assault and other crimes that have raised passenger-safety concerns for years. The clearinghouse unveiled Thursday will initially list drivers expelled by the ride-hailing rivals in the U.S. But it will also be open to […]
Clubhouse, the growing social media conglomerate that also encompasses a digital studio subsidiary, software division, and an worldwide network of professionally operated content and influencer houses, announced this week its new content Creator advisory panel—a first for the industry. The seven-member committee will be composed of professionals across various sectors, including peer influencers, Clubhouse executives […]
Numerous companies and websites in France suffered outages and disruptions to services after a fire swept through a cloud computing provider’s facility. Disruption continued Thursday after OVH said the fire erupted early Wednesday in a room at one of its data centers in Strasbourg in eastern France. No one was injured in the blaze, which […]
Chinese antitrust regulators are considering a record fine to slap on e-commerce titan Alibaba Group along with smaller fines against other leading technology companies in a bid to tame China’s sprawling tech industry, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday citing people familiar with the matter. The regulator has already issued fines on Friday to […]
LG Energy Solution will invest more than $4.5 billion in U.S. battery production by 2025 as more automakers commit to churning electric vehicles sooner than anyone had expected. The Korean company, which has a joint venture with U.S. automaker General Motors, said the investment will help create 10,000 jobs, including subcontractors. GM and LG are […]
What was innovative yesterday is already obsolete by tomorrow. This is more true now than ever in the era of the pandemic which, in many cases, intensifies and accelerates this process. The speed of development is and will always remain high in the telecommunications industry. And here it is clear: COVID-19 is challenging for the […]
The inventor of the cassette tape, Lou (Lodewijk Frederik) Ottens, has passed away at the age of 94, his family confirmed to news media. As much as the world has lived with game-changing new technologies over the last several decades, at the time of its invention, over 50 years ago, the cassette greatly changed the […]