After the Federal Aviation Administration issued a statement late yesterday doubling down on its decision to keep the Boeing 737 Max planes at the heart of two accident investigations flying, Canada has become the latest nation to ground the plane. “There are — and I hasten to say not conclusive — but there are similarities,” […]
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Apple losses trigger a plunge in US markets
Bad news from Apple and signs of slowing international and domestic growth sent stocks tumbling in Thursday trading on all of the major markets. Investors erased some $75 billion in value from Apple alone… an amount known technically as a shit ton of money. But stocks were down broadly based on Apple’s news, with the Nasdaq […]
View More Apple losses trigger a plunge in US marketsThis ‘Bob’s Burgers’ Thanksgiving music video will actually destroy you
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Another year, another Thanksgiving song from The National, in their annual collaborative tradition with beloved animated series Bob’s Burgers. But this one’s a real tear-jerker.
Recorded in Los Angeles, the track “Save the Bird” is characteristically heartbreaking by itself. But the video will destroy you, following a trip in the car with the band, who release a turkey into the sunset on Thanksgiving. Yeah, you’re gonna feel bad about your dinner.
“We’re honored to continue our Thanksgiving tradition with Bob’s Burgers with ‘Save The Bird,’ which was recorded at Public Hi-Fi in Austin and in my secluded dojo in Los Angeles,” frontman Matt Berninger said in a statement via Pitchfork. Read more…
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The “How do you microwave a turkey?” prank is breaking our mothers’ hearts.
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, young people are pranking their poor mothers by asking them for advice on one of the greatest sins against the holiday season: microwaved turkey.
Microwaving a turkey, by the way, is totally possible — Mashable tested it, and made a surprisingly good Thanksgiving dinner a few years ago. But to many mothers, who wield family recipes like a sword, microwaving a turkey is an abomination to tradition.
Which is why people are poking fun at their moms by asking. Read more…
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View More Fed-up moms respond to ‘Can I cook a turkey in the microwave?’Criminal turkey now the ‘mayor’ of the town it’s terrorizing
Smoke the wild turkey is now the mayor of Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin. Or, well…he’s an honorary one, at the very least.
Authorities have spent the past couple of months, trying to capture the mischievous bird, who has a penchant for standing in traffic…
7 videos of people setting their Thanksgiving turkeys on fire
Nothing screams Thanksgiving like a deep-fryer fire and a charred turkey. We’re not talking a little smoke either. There are people out there whose fryers and ovens have been engulfed in flames on the biggest food holiday of the year.
If you’r…
Saudi Arabia’s ‘Davos in the Desert’ website was hacked and defaced
The website of the Saudi government’s upcoming Future Investment Initiative conference was hacked and defaced with images of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Several reporters tweeted screenshots of the site after its defacement, purporting to show Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman — the kingdom’s de facto ruler — brandishing a sword. A portion of […]
View More Saudi Arabia’s ‘Davos in the Desert’ website was hacked and defacedKhashoggi’s fate shows the flip side of the surveillance state
It’s been over five years since NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden lifted the lid on government mass surveillance programs, revealing, in unprecedented detail, quite how deep the rabbit hole goes thanks to the spread of commercial software and connectivity enabling a bottomless intelligence-gathering philosophy of ‘bag it all’. Yet technology’s onward march has hardly broken its stride. […]
View More Khashoggi’s fate shows the flip side of the surveillance stateSeparating tech fact from the fiction around Jamal Khashoggi’s Apple Watch
Amid the news of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance and likely death in Turkey sits a technological mystery involving an Apple Watch.
Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Turkish authorities had audio recordings that con…
Messenger Lite launches on iOS, but only in Turkey
A few days ago, Facebook quietly introduced a “Lite” version of its Facebook app for iOS devices, but only in a single market, Turkey. The app had been previously available only on Android. Today, the company is following suit with a launch of Messenger Lite on iOS, again just in Turkey. The launch was first […]
View More Messenger Lite launches on iOS, but only in TurkeyAlibaba goes big on Russia with joint venture focused on gaming, shopping and more
Alibaba is doubling down on Russia after the Chinese e-commerce giant launched a joint venture with one of the country’s leading internet companies. Russia is said to have over 70 million internet users, around half of its population, with countless more attracted from Russian-speaking neighboring countries. The numbers are projected to rise as, like in […]
View More Alibaba goes big on Russia with joint venture focused on gaming, shopping and moreTurkey hopes to add its underwater ‘Sunken City’ to the World Heritage List
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Sivrice mayor Ebubekir Irmak hopes the historic underwater city — which has been submerged since 1830 — will be added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Read more…
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