Let’s address the elephant in the room: Amazon Prime membership costs aren’t getting any cheaper. My credit card just caught the brunt of the yearly auto-renewal.
And as I fondly remember the modest $79 annual fee in 2005, which has ballooned to $139 today, I wonder aloud, “Why am I paying so much for two-day shipping and a video service?”
I don’t know about you, but practically every time my phone rings, my heart rate starts skyrocketing.
Who the hell could be calling me? What in the world do they want? And why, for the love of all things sacred, isn’t their name showing up on the screen?!
It’s that last part that’s especially unsettling. Despite all the fancy-schmancy smarts these allegedly smart devices of ours possess, we still seem to get an annoying amount of random calls from numbers we don’t know an
As the clock ticks closer to a U.S. ban on TikTok, small businesses are bracing for the loss of an app that has, in many cases, proven vital for their success.
Millions of small businesses use the short-video social media app to help them grow their business in a multitude of ways. From helping to grow a customer base and selling goods directly from the app to advertising and marketing, TikTok has
Greg Epstein is the Humanist chaplain at Harvard University and at MIT, where he advises students, faculty, and staff members on ethical and existential concerns from a humanist perspective. He has served for over 20 years in elected and appointed interfaith leadership roles as an advisor for the non-religious. He himself is an atheist, agnostic, Humanist.
Tech has changed roles. It used to be a mere tool that people could use for bettering and strengthening humanity. Now, it has a
Apple gives every iCloud user 5GB of free storage space. This storage space can be used for anything—from backing up your iPhone online to saving documents in the cloud to syncing photos across devices. If you need more space, you can upgrade to iCloud+ to get anywhere from 50GB of storage for jus
Apple, which has built its brand on data privacy, settled a class action suit this week in which the plaintiffs claimed their iPhones’ Siri voice assistant listened in on their conversations for the purpose of targeting them with ads.
The iPhone-maker has (preliminarily) agreed to pay $95 million to settle the case after five years of legal jousting. The case alleged that u
If Spotify Wrapped left you underwhelmed this year, TikTok’s “Dating Wrapped” trend is here to spice things up.
Instead of playlists, users are serving up PowerPoint-style presentations packed with stats about their 2024 dating lives. Singles everywhere are crunching the numbers on their year of dating highs and (mostly) lows, tracking drinks, dinners, ghosting, and awkward smal
Dating apps are gearing up for their busiest day of the year: Dating Sunday.
This landmark day in the dating world always lands on the first Sunday of January. The idea is that singles, back from their holiday travel and with a slate of new resolutions, will turn to dating apps with fresh eyes and open hearts.
Sure, some of this is marketing, but there are stats to back up the popularity of this day. Dating apps routinely see a surge in activity on Dating Sunday.&nb
A federal appeals court sealed the fate of the Biden administration’s efforts to regulate internet providers on Thursday, striking down the Federal Communications Commission’s 2024 net neutrality order once and for all.
The order sought to reclassify internet service providers as common ca
The new year started out with the worst kind of bang. In the early hours of January 1, an assailant exploded a Cybertruck in front of Trump Hotel in Las Vegas, using firework mortars and gas canisters. Seven bystanders were injured in the blast, and the driver reportedly killed himself before the explosion.