September 17, 2021 Google Is Reportedly Loading Chromecast Up With Free Channels Attempting to lure cord-cutters to smart TVs and Chromecast streaming devices, Google is reportedly considering plans to add several FAST (free, ad-supported streaming television)…
September 17, 2021 Chevron CEO: ‘Let Them Plant Trees’ In an interview with CNBC that aired Wednesday, Mike Wirth, the CEO of Chevron, said that it would not invest in renewable energy, instead…
September 17, 2021 Internal Facebook Documents Show How Badly It Fumbled the Fight Against Anti-Vaxxers: Report The Wall Street Journal has had something of a banner week tearing down Facebook. Its series on a trove of internal company documents obtained…
September 17, 2021 Watch a Young George R.R. Martin Rail Against Sci-Fi’s Predictive Reputation As famous as he is, George R.R. Martin is not above Googling himself. At least that’s the only sensible explanation for how he “stumbled…
September 17, 2021 California’s Limited Grid Is Making Solar Access Inequitable Installing a rooftop solar kit can be pricy. But the cost of affixing panels to your rooftop may not be the only factor keeping…
September 17, 2021 Someone in Wyoming Caught the Plague From Their Cats A Wyoming resident appears to have caught a case of the plague from their own cats, health officials reported this week. The person—health officials…
September 17, 2021 Ted Lasso Is an Unexpected Masterclass in Environmental Storytelling Recent research suggests that people who aren’t interested in entertainment that is explicitly “environmental” will avoid it, whether it’s because they disagree with its…
September 17, 2021 United Airlines Grounded U.S. Flights Due to ‘Technical System Issues’ United Airlines was forced to hit pause on all of its flights across the U.S. and Canada early Friday morning due to an IT…
September 17, 2021 Warhammer+ Is Worth It for Fans, and That’s All It Needs to Be The current streaming landscape is full of Marvel movie stars, sweeping, blockbuster adaptations, and more content than you can shake a Batarang at. It…
September 17, 2021 Apple and Google Pull Opposition App From Russian Stores Following Kremlin Pressure The world’s two most powerful tech companies have kowtowed to Putin’s regime, it seems. On Friday morning, Bloomberg reported that Google and Apple have…