Postage times go crazy this time of year, but there is still time to buy a new phone and have it arrive before the holidays. Well, not this one. The OnePlus 15 is still “coming soon” – the company’s US site is showing January shipping times. It’s also up on Amazon at the same $900 starting price for the 12/256GB...
It’s been 15 years since filmmaker and TV legend James L Brooks last attempted to make a romantic comedy. The memory of 2010’s How Do You Know – a film that stumbled both critically and commercially – disappeared without a trace. So when the trailer for his new film, Ella McCay, appeared, announcing his return to the fray after a prolonged absence, anticipation came mixed with doubt.Emma Mackey, who...
When 94-year-old Eleanor’s (June Squibb) best friend of 70 years and roommate Bessie (Rita Zohar) passes away, she decides it’s time for a change, and moves back to her native New York. In an attempt to get her out of the house and socialising, her daughter Lisa encourages Eleanor to attend classes at their local Jewish Community Centre, where she accidentally sits...
Spinny, an Indian online marketplace for used cars, is raising around $160 million as it moves to acquire car services startup GoMechanic, TechCrunch has learned. The Series G round, which includes a mix of primary and secondary transactions, would value the 10-year-old startup at about $1.8 billion post-money, three people familiar with the matter said, broadly in line with its...
The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have been the victim of reductions across the tech industry, with a staggering 16,084 cuts taking place in February alone. We’re tracking layoffs in the tech...
World, the biometric ID verification project co-founded by Sam Altman, released the newest version of its app today, debuting several new features, including an encrypted chat integration and an expanded, Venmo-like capability for sending and requesting crypto. World was created by the startup Tools for Humanity in 2019, and originally launched its app in 2023. The company says that, in...
“The most beautiful gift was given to me by my father in the 1970s when, for a small amount of money, he rented a house with other families in a small, abandoned mining village located deep in the woods of the Metalliferous Hills in Tuscany, Italy. I was less than ten years old and, with the other children, I was...
Brandon LivesayandMax Matza,Washington stateWatch: Record-setting floods hit the United States’ Pacific NorthwestResidents in the Pacific Northwest of the US and western Canada are bracing for potentially life-threatening floods as an atmospheric river dumps heavy rain on already swollen rivers.On Thursday, the National Water Center reported major, in some cases record, flooding along the Skagit and Snohomish rivers in the state...
The now-infamous raccoon who got drunk after breaking into a Virginia ABC store in Hanover County is apparently a serial offender. Source link...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (RNS) — As Manahil Khan stood at the balloon-decorated entrance of Salsabeel Cafe, she took in the stream of students and elders sipping coffee drinks in what once was the prayer hall she’d run around in as a child. The cafe’s opening at the Islamic Center of Johnson County in the Kansas City suburbs in early November...
