By Lindsay Rogers As many countries continue to scrap their quarantine requirement for inbound travelers, this week Belgian authorities have decidedly moved in the opposite direction by introducing a new one. This time, though, it isn’t for COVID. Per …
Home Runs Are a Rarity This Season, Except If You’re Aaron Judge
By Evan Bleier Following a pair of pregame chats with home run king Barry Bonds, Joc Pederson of the Giants homered three times and drove in a career-high eight runs for San Francisco during a 13-12 win over the New York Mets on Tuesday. “Just getting …
Apple’s Home Repair Kit Sounds Passive-Aggressively Awful
By Kirk Miller In a move akin to spitefully paying your parking ticket with bags of pennies, Apple recently shipped a 79-pound iPhone Repair Kit to a customer who wanted to DIY fix their iPhone. The customer was Sean Hollister, a writer for The Verge. …
How Many Minutes of TV Can You Watch a Day Before It Becomes Dangerous?
By Tanner Garrity According to a new study from the University of Cambridge, watching more than one episode of television a night could have a devastating impact on your heart. Researchers concluded that 11% of coronary heart diseases could be prevente…
GlassesUSA Has a Ton of Sleek Shades on Sale for Memorial Day
By Paolo Sandoval Hear ye, hear ye, the court of no-brainer decisions is in session. First order of business: grabbing a pair of banging sunglasses for cheap this Memorial Day. There are a gazillion sales from what feels like an infinite number of bran…
The Best Tech Memorial Day Sales to Shop From Amazon, Best Buy, Apple and More
By Paolo Sandoval Memorial Day is almost here, and with it, a bundle of massive sales on everything from headboards to hats to headphones. Among the literally thousands of store sales, designer discounts and convenient clearances, a few sales stand out…
This Ridiculously Good J.Crew Memorial Day Sale Spells Huge Savings on Everything
By Paolo Sandoval In case you haven’t caught on, Memorial Day is a great time to save a buck or two on…well, anything. J.Crew’s holiday sale is like a microcosmic version of this phenomenon. From shirts to suits to shoes to sunglasses, anything and eve…
David Cronenberg, the King of Body Horror, Returns to Cannes With the Delightfully Gross “Crimes of the Future”
By Mark Asch This is the latest installment of the 2022 edition of the French Dispatches, our on-the-ground coverage of the Cannes Film Festival. Watch this space over the next fortnight for more from the 75 edition. David Cronenberg rolled up on the C…
Alec Baldwin Has Opinions on Workplace Safety
By Trish Rooney After a video of former NFL player Brendan Langley was posted on social media, showing the athlete punching an airport employee in the face, commenters began to express whether or not the altercation was justified. One commenter caught …
Google Admits Its Mind-Blowing Text-to-Image AI Is Endlessly Problematic
By Kirk Miller A new text-to-image generator created by Google has the potential to increase instances of fake news and harassment, although the technology is still in an early phase. Utilizing artificial intelligence, Google’s Imagen application would…