By Ja’han Jones You know how parents sometimes suspend their kids’ technology privileges as punishment? The Biden administration is reportedly considering a similar tack to discourage Russia from invading Ukraine .According to a new Washington Post report , the Biden administration is debating a policy that would punish Russia by […]
Year: 2022
Joe Biden Formally Backs Consumers’ Right to Repair Their Electronics
Image: Alex Wong/Getty Images President Biden became the first sitting president to give extensive comments supporting the right to repair and acknowledging the anticompetitive practices of electronics manufacturers that have spent the last decade creating repair monopolies and making it difficult for consumers to fix the things they own. At […]
But are you willing to subject your eyes to such an ordeal?
Although the old top-down version of Grand Theft Auto was at one time ported to the Game Boy Color, the experience was nowhere near as fun as the notorious 3D versions of the game, so Sebastian Staacks decided to fix that and has come up with a way to actually […]
A new Steam feature allows you to play games more easily across multiple PCs
Steam is adding a new feature that will make it plenty easier for players to access video games “seamlessly” from different PCs.Valve announced the new feature, called Dynamic Cloud Sync, via a blog post .The feature was added as part of a series of updates to support its upcoming Steam […]
‘Jeen-yus’ Review: Kanye West Documentary Chronicles an Inspiring Rise, Followed by a Long, Polarizing Plateau
Netflix’s epic Kanye West documentary, “ Jeen-yuhs : A Kanye Trilogy,” will unfold in three feature-length parts, as the subtitle promises.(The first part premiered Sunday in the Sundance Film Festival, and gets a one-night theatrical release Feb.10; the whole thing will unspool on successive Wednesdays on Netflix, starting Feb.16.) But […]
Peter Goodman’s ‘Davos Man’ Says Billionaires Made Pandemic Blows Worse
It is not a coincidence that hospital beds have been in alarmingly short supply during multiple stretches of the pandemic. Instead, according to a new book by The New York Times journalist Peter S.Goodman, the shortage was the byproduct of wealthy investors—often billionaires—who seized on health care as a lucrative […]
Cruise ship heads to Bahamas after U.S. issues arrest warrant – CBS News
A cruise ship that was supposed to dock in Miami sailed to the Bahamas instead after a U.S.judge granted an order to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over unpaid fuel. Cruise trackers show Crystal Symphony currently docked in the Bahamian island of Bimini. Passengers were taken by […]
Gonzaga University suspends John Stockton’s season tickets over his refusal to follow mask mandate – CBS News
Gonzaga University has suspended alumnus and NBA Hall of Fame player John Stockton’s season tickets after he refused to comply with the school’s COVID-19 mask mandate at games, he confirmed in a recent interview with The Spokesman-Review. Stockton, 59, who has previously spread misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, told the newspaper […]
Woman finds winning $3 million lottery prize in her junk mail
Word to the wise, lottery players: Check your junk mail. A Michigan woman is thanking her lucky stars after sifting through her own email spam folder and accidentally stumbling on a message from state lottery officials announcing that she’d won $3 million. Laura Spears had bought a Mega Millions ticket […]
Supreme Court rejects GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy’s challenge to House proxy voting
Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a challenge mounted by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy against the lower chamber’s pandemic-era rules for voting by proxy , allowing the practice to continue. McCarthy and Congressman Chip Roy, a Republican from Texas, asked the high court in […]