Starbucks open Labor Day 2021: Here’s what you need to know
First things first, let’s answer the question on the minds of many Starbucks uber-fans like myself. You don’t have to wonder whether the coffee chain’s …
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Labor Day stores open: Apple, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Walmart and more
My email this morning is chock full of news about sales and special offers from retailers like Best Buy and Williams Sonoma — one indication …
More than 565,000 Walmart workers are getting a wage raise
More than half a million workers at one US employer are getting a pay raise later this month. The plan from Walmart to raise wages …
The FTC has opened a probe into McDonald’s broken ice cream machines
The perpetually broken McDonald’s ice cream machines are the butt of so many jokes and so much customer ire. They’ve been the subject of some …
Apple’s new App Store change will let some developers avoid Apple’s fees
It’s been a few tumultuous days for digital app stores that provide smartphone users with all sorts of content. Apple just announced a settlement with …
Amazon will pay claims up to $1,000 for defective items sold on its site
Amazon will cut out the middleman when it comes to paying customers who suffer personal injury or property damage due to a defective product purchased …
Apple finally responds to criticism of controversial iPhone photo-scanning feature
Apple announced a few days ago a series of security initiatives meant to protect children from online predators. The new features will be available in …
Amazon Prime same-day delivery is coming to six more US cities
One of the many reasons that Amazon is so popular is the speed with which it delivers our packages. Rarely does any Amazon shopper have …
Apple posts Q3 earnings and delivers monster quarter with $81.43 billion in revenue
Earnings season is upon us and, per usual, all eyes in the tech world are laser-focused on Apple’s Q3 earnings report. A short while ago, …
Tesla has such a weird attitude toward the press
Tesla’s attitude toward the press has always seemed to me to be a little like the relationship that a Democratic White House expects to have …
‘Apple Pay Later’ is a new service that will make it much easier to buy things from Apple
Those of you who haven’t yet sprung for an Apple Card might soon be able to get a taste of what it offers. It will …
Apple is reportedly about to make a huge acquisition that no one expected
Is Apple about to make Reese Witherspoon a billionaire? Maybe, if you believe the reports that her media company Hello Sunshine is for sale. Reports …
Back at the Apple Store: My first return visit since the pandemic began
For the first time in more than a year, since the start of you-know-what, I walked into the Apple Store location near my apartment Thursday …
Huawei’s CEO wants his employees to watch a TV show about the Chinese Communist Party
Ahead of the 100th anniversary of China’s ruling Communist Party on July 1, Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei used the opportunity of a company …
According to TikTok insiders, Trump might have been right about the Chinese company
Less than a month after we learned about a creepy privacy change that the parent company of the TikTok app implemented for the popular service …
John McAfee was always an enigma
“Come dressed as a woman.” That was the weird and very John McAfee-like instruction that the controversial entrepreneur gave me, after I’d requested an interview …
If you took a Carnival cruise before the pandemic, your personal data might’ve been stolen
By now, it’s sort of the understatement of the year to note that the coronavirus pandemic has walloped some businesses much harder than others — …
London hedge fund that bet against GameStop just shut down for good
Of all the baffling things that have happened over the last six months, few can compete with the short squeeze of GameStop’s stock at the …
Apple: Privacy is a human right, unless you live in China
Apple executives like CEO Tim Cook like to repeat, often, what’s become a kind of mantra inside the company as well as during public events …
Cable TV is dying, and the industry only has itself to blame
Time was, people ditched their cable TV packages by cutting the cord so they could save money by going all-in on streaming. It was the …
Apple CEO Tim Cook wants you to watch this ad ahead of his Epic Games testimony Friday
One day before Apple CEO Tim Cook takes the stand on Friday in the high-stakes court fight between the iPhone maker and Epic Games over …
Colonial Pipeline CEO: Paying hackers $4.4M was the ‘right thing to do for the country’
One day after Colonial Pipeline confirmed an all-new system outage that the US fuel company stressed was not a product of some new hacking attack …
Spotify’s chief legal officer just published the dumbest op-ed against Apple
As the high-profile Epic Games v Apple trial entered its third week on Monday — with key Apple executives now being put on the stand, …
Target stops selling Pokemon cards in its stores due to safety concerns
In recent months, the Pokemon Trading Card Game has exploded in popularity. Consumers are buying up Pokemon cards (and reselling them online) at a dizzying …
If you use these banks, your personal data might’ve been stolen in a security breach
Hackers have been out in force this year, especially when it comes to security incidents like data breaches and, increasingly, the opportunity to take advantage …
SpaceX is literally sending Dogecoin to the moon in upcoming mission
The cryptocurrency Dogecoin was created as a joke in 2013, and as of this January, it was worth less than a penny per coin. By …
Guess how much money Dogecoin’s co-creator made when he sold all his doge
Get used to seeing, over the coming days, lots of Dogecoin news, breathlessly enthusiastic tweets, and maybe even some kind of reference to the cryptocurrency …
Peloton just recalled its treadmills following the death of a child
Peloton issued voluntary recalls for both of its treadmills on Wednesday over safety concerns. In a press release, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) …
This big grocery chain is about to start delivering some orders with drones
Welcome to the future, courtesy of an expansion of Kroger delivery options that will soon include packages dropped off via drone. Kroger has announced that …
It’s official: There are too many streaming services on the market
Here’s a thought experiment for you streaming fans out there. At this point, many of us are subscribed to multiple streaming TV services — Netflix, …
