Author: Zach_Wilson
Why New York and other cities still aren’t prepared for floods
New York City came to a grinding halt Friday as floods shut down roads and subways and inundated schools in one of the biggest storm-related emergencies since the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit in 2021. It isn’t a problem that’s unique to New York. Flood risk is rising across the…
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The co-founder of a collapsed crypto hedge fund was arrested in Singapore
Su Zhu, the co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested in Singapore on Friday. Zhu was taken into custody while attempting to leave the country from Singapore’s Changi Airport, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Teneo, the liquidation firm in charge of liquidating 3AC’s assets,…
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Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths
Future Motion, the maker of the Onewheel electric skateboard, is recalling every one of them, including 300,000 Onewheel self-balancing vehicles in the US. Alongside the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company now seeks to remedy the products after four known death cases — three without a helmet —…
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Pokémon’s Van Gogh collaboration turned out to be kind of a disaster
Initially, it seemed like The Pokémon Company’s plan was for people to be able to easily find multiple pieces of merchandise from the special Pokémon x Van Gogh Museum collection online at the Pokémon Center, even if you couldn’t make it to the actual exhibit in Amsterdam. This afternoon, though,…
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October’s video game release calendar is a little too stacked
October is a lousy month for games. It’s just stuffed full of some of the biggest releases of the year. Remember back in the summer when Tears of the Kingdom, Diablo IV, and Final Fantasy XVI all released in the span of five weeks? October is that on steroids —…
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Pixel Watch 2 could get some Fitbit-style features to measure your stress levels
Google’s next Pixel event is less than a week away, and yet new details about the device keep leaking. This time, we’ve learned that the wearable will be gaining the Body Responses feature seen previously on the Fitbit Sense 2. This batch of information comes from industry insider Evan Blass…
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