Yelps says more than half of restaurants temporarily closed are now permanently shuttered
It’s tough out there for restaurants and other small businesses. Yelp’s Economic Average report out Wednesday shows exactly how tough: 60 percent of the 26,160 temporarily closed restaurants on the…
Trump’s New Facebook Ad Uses Protest Photo From Ukraine in 2014, Not U.S. in 2020
Portion of a new Facebook ad run by President Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, with an unidentified photo of Ukraine used to depict “chaos and violence”Screenshot: Facebook/Donald J. Trump. Photograph on…
AI Text Generator GPT-3 Is Learning Our Language—Fitfully
The tech industry pays programmers handsomely to tap the right keys in the right order, but earlier this month entrepreneur Sharif Shameem tested an alternative way to write code. First…
How to Stay Productive When the World Is on Fire
For many of us, the habit of doomscrolling crept up on us without our noticing. “So many of us massively increased our news intake in March, and then we realized…
Rocket League is going free-to-play this summer — nice shot!
Psyonix, makers of the insane soccer-but-with-RC-cars game, Rocket League, announced that it’s making the popular title free-to-play later this summer — five years after its launch. While the game is…
7 simple tips to help you deal with a work crisis (and keep your cool)
Your palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy — although I’m borrowing lyrics from Eminem, I’m not about to burst into rap, don’t worry. Instead, I want to draw…
Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin inches up after trading flat for 2 weeks’
Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin BTC every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with…
Thousands of Uber’s Jump eBikes saved from scrap heap to be loaned out for free
Thousands of the Jump ebikes that were being scrapped last month will be saved from the scrap heap as a nonprofit steps in to save the day. Following international backlash…
The best free iPhone apps of 2020 The best free iPhone apps
We’ve rounded up the very best free iPhone apps for you, including photo and video editors, health apps, music players, and much more besides. You’ve got an iPhone, and have ventured into…
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 could be able to stream Xbox games null
The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 series will be officially unveiled on August 5. Amongst many other things expected at the launch, here’s one more to look forward to—the ability to…