Category: Technology

Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show has been, on the metrics, a success. According to Comedy Central, his first episode back on February 12 was watched by 1.85 million total viewers across premiere simulcasts and encores, up 110 percent from Trevor Noah’s final episode in 2022. It’s also a major improvement on Stewart’s last […]

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Cozy game PowerWash Simulator is launching a Warhammer 40,000 Special Pack in a surprising collaboration — launching next week, on February 27, 2024. PowerWash Simulator, a game centered around using a power washer to clean dirt off objects and buildings to earn in-game money, has announced an unusual collaboration with Warhammer, a miniature wargame with […]

Enlarge / A child with measles. Florida health officials on Sunday announced an investigation into a cluster of measles cases at an elementary school in the Fort Lauderdale area with a low vaccination rate, a scenario health experts fear will become more and more common amid slipping vaccination rates nationwide. On Friday, Broward County Public […]

In a role reversal, Xalts, a Singapore fintech startup founded 18 months ago, has acquired Contour Network, a digital trade platform set up by eight major banks including HSBC, Standard Chartered and BNP. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but the acquisition price was in the high single millions and composed of cash and stock. […]

Few people in the world have the power to order around Elon Musk. One of them is a soft-spoken, small-town-raised, 44-year-old Delaware judge named Kathaleen McCormick. When the planet’s richest person tried to back out of buying Twitter in 2022, it was McCormick who stood in the way, taking a no-nonsense approach to a lawsuit […]

Home batteries are a lot bigger and more complicated than the small AA batteries you put in your household gadgets. All those numbers on the specification sheet are confusing, and choosing poorly can mean you buy something too weak to run your appliances — or something more expensive and powerful than you need it to […]