Month: April 2025
This ICE-snitching app is actually promoting a meme coin
Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants. ICERAID, a “GovFi protocol that delegates intelligence gathering tasks to citizens,” has recently been promoted by the likes of conspiracy theorist and Trump confidante Laura Loomer, Proud Boy-turned-media personality Jacob Engels, and…
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Zoom was down for many – here’s everything we know about the video calling platform’s outage
Refresh 2025-04-16T21:14:24.415Z Zoom has posted to X (formerly Twitter), relaying that the platform’s services have been restored. However, we still don’t have details on what caused the platform and its many features to go down. It also happened several hours after Spotify’s global outage, but there are no signs that…
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Zoom is down for many – here’s what we know about the video calling platform’s outage
Refresh 2025-04-16T20:12:36.849Z Zoom is investigating the outage hitting its platform Some good news on the path to resolving this outage is that Zoom has acknowledged the issues it is facing right now. At 3:17 PM ET, Zoom said it was starting to investigate some issues across its services, and at…
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The 2026 Subaru Trailseeker EV has solid 4X4 bonafides but mediocre range
Subaru has unveiled its second-ever EV, the 2026 Trailseeker, at the New York International Auto Show. It's a slightly larger version of the company's first electric vehicle, the Solterra, and is likely based on the same platform — also used by Toyota with its BZ4X electric SUV. You can see…
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Apple’s carbon footprint is shrinking
Its planet-heating pollution shrank by 800,000 metric tons last year compared to 2023, about a 5 percent drop. Looking back over the past decade, Apple says its global greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by more than 60 percent. That’s no easy feat, especially now as the AI arms race pushes…
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Prime Video cancels Citadel spinoffs that have way higher Rotten Tomatoes ratings than the original – but Citadel season 2 is still coming
As we reported last year, the first season of Citadel struggled to achieve a 50% Rotten Tomatoes rating. It’s currently sitting at a rather sad 51%, but its spin-offs Citadel: Diana and Citadel: Honey Bunny are much higher rated, with 82% and 75% respectively. So of course Prime Video has…
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