Here’s how you can stand up for community composting and make your voice heard at Friday’s New York City Council hearing. Sabrina Deshong adds food scraps to a compost collection point operated by GrowNYC. Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, everything has moved online—even New York City Council hearings! For many […]
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Stephen Lam | Reuters Bank of America analysts said in a note Wednesday that Alphabet stock will benefit more than online ad peer Facebook when the world starts recuperating […]
With the launch of PS5 and Xbox Series X now behind us, we’re turning our attention toward what we’ll be playing on our shiny new hardware — as well as last-gen consoles, Switch, and PC — in the months ahead. From flagship console exclusives like God of War: Ragnarok and […]
Being a digital nomad has taken Andrea Valeria to places like Tulum, Mexico. Courtesy of Andrea Valeria With many people working remotely, digital nomads — people who earn a living online while they travel — are on the rise. Insider spoke to digital nomads Andrea Valeria, Wanda Duncan, and Kim […]
Making craft cocktails at home just got easier with Modica Superfood Cocktail Mix By Elizabeth ScintaPhotos provided by Modica When Eric Wentworth and JD Mitchell met in business school getting their MBA in entrepreneurship, they began to tackle the crucial question of “How can I make a great […]
Google’s search page is displayed on a laptop in an arranged photograph taken in New York on July 24. The tech giant was hit by a lawsuit from 38 attorneys general on Thursday, the third major legal challenge against Google in two months. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption toggle […]
Screenshot: Youtube TikTok is a place that is simultaneously mostly bad and mostly good, a singular paradox that sustains itself on the collective manic energy produced by the general suffering of human existence. How this gets expressed on the app varies. Evangelical teens preach hell and brimfire on girls who […]
Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Sumo Digital have released the online multiplayer update for 3D platforming adventure Sackboy: A Big Adventure. The update also adds the option to transfer save data from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5. Here is an overview of online multiplayer and save data transfer, via […]
In a year of blockbuster IPOs, Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB) did not disappoint. Shares of the vacation rental giant more than doubled out of the gate on its IPO day, reaching a high of $165, all the way up from its $68 listing price. Since then shares have cooled off, falling in each […]
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL — The Christmas holiday is almost here in Arlington Heights. While a favorite time of year for many, Christmas celebrations will likely look different this year amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released specific guidance on what and what not […]
Not every tip and tactic applies to every team or game, but go over this checklist to make sure you aren’t missing a key edge or angle that could impact your best college football bowl bets. Photo By – USA TODAY Sports After a patchwork 2020 college […]
Using credit cards responsibly can be an excellent way to get rewards and perks with your everyday spending, but if you’re not careful, it can also lead to crippling high-interest debt. As you prepare for the new year by evaluating your financial situation and creating resolutions to better it, here […]
This is the Dec. 17, 2020, edition of Boiling Point, a weekly newsletter about climate change and the environment in California and the American West. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. It’s been nearly five years since the chilly February morning when I shuffled into the back […]
Yields are close to as low as they have ever been. Should you be loading up on debt to pour into stocks, property and other things that might produce a return above the cost of repaying the loan? One notable investor shows how getting everything right can deliver fat returns—but […]
The author of this piece describes details of the sexual assault she experienced, and some readers may find this description upsetting or triggering. I should have known when he increasingly demanded more and more of me ― take a naked selfie holding up two fingers and hopping on one leg […]
Caregivers at the Sacramento Children’s Home on Sutterville Road in Sacramento have been scrambling in recent weeks to make sure that 20 foster boys in their residential program have enough time on computers and tablets to participate in online schooling and enjoy leisure time. “Usually the boys would attend local […]
Jedi take center stage in Star Wars: The High Republic. Lucasfilm The High Republic feels like Star Wars unchained. Set 200 years before The Phantom Menace, the earliest movie in the timeline, the project combining novels, children’s books and comics is liberated from the constraints of the Skywalker Saga. There […]
The newest ad from Procter & Gamble doesn’t feature any of its famous products, like Tide, Pampers or Crest. The only thing the company is really trying to sell is a good feeling at the end of a bad year. A new commercial from the consumer-products giant now available online […]
Airlines have canceled upward of 600 flight after the parts of Northeast received a foot of snow or more with additional precipitation expected to fall through Thursday morning. Snow fell from northern Virginia to parts of New England on Wednesday. It carried on north into the evening, sustaining a storm […]
Co-founders Joe Green, left, and Prophet Walker sit in the rooftop garden at Treehouse, a co-living apartment building in Hollywood. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) On a Sunday evening in late September, with wildfire smoke hanging in the air, a few dozen people gathered in the rooftop kitchen of […]
The pandemic may have shut down ski lifts last March, but it hasn’t stopped the new ski season from coming. Vail Mountain kicked off its opening day last month, as eager skiers and riders masked up and social-distanced their way down the slopes. The Colorado mountain is among the roughly […]
Caregivers at the Sacramento Children’s Home on Sutterville Road in Sacramento have been scrambling in recent weeks to make sure that 20 foster boys in their residential program have enough time on computers and tablets to participate in online schooling and enjoy leisure time. “Usually the boys would attend local […]