2024-04-02 07:02:05 This essay, by Ashley Zhang, 14, of West Vancouver, British Columbia, is one of the Top 11 winners of The Learning Network’s new “How To” Informational Writing Contest for Teenagers. We are publishing the work of all the winners over the next several days, and you can find them here as they post….
TechCrunch 2024-04-03 21:45:21 X is giving free blue checks to users who have more than 2,500 “verified” followers, which are people who subscribe to X Premium. Popular posters will get a blue check, but not everyone is happy about it: People are now frantically posting to make it clear that they didn’t buy a blue…
2024-04-02 04:02:31 Have you had close relationships with grandparents or other elders? What memories come to mind when you think of them? What life lessons have you gained from your time together? In a Modern Love essay, “At 93, Teaching Me About Possibility,” Richard Morgan writes about what happened when he abandoned “grayspeak” — talking…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-03 18:49:00 The internet, as anyone who works deep in its trenches will tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine. It’s a messy patchwork that has been assembled over decades, and is held together with the digital equivalent of Scotch tape and bubble gum. Much of it relies on open-source…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-04-03 18:00:07 The comedian Jerrod Carmichael spends a remarkable amount of time in his new HBO series, “Jerrod Carmichael Reality Show,” with his head in his hands like Henri Vidal’s 19th-century statue of Cain after he has killed his brother Abel. Maybe that’s fitting, since the series focuses on Carmichael’s tortured…
TMZ.com 2024-04-03 16:37:21 Play video content TikTok / @realkingjon A woman had a cartoonish meltdown on a Spirit Airlines flight — and while cops were trying to remove her … she tried invoking the name of George Floyd. This video is making the rounds online, which captures an incident on a Spirit plane from March…
TouchArcade 2024-04-03 16:11:27 Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for April 3rd, 2024. In today’s article, we’re doing the usual Wednesday thing. That means we’ve got a slightly thinner broth to work with today, but we’re going to do our best with it anyway. A small handful of new releases to look…
2024-04-02 03:00:01 The bean bag chair. The water bed. The sectional couch. Do you have a favorite piece of furniture, either in your home — or in your dreams? Which designs would you nominate to a Furniture Hall of Fame? The Times recently asked six experts to make a list of the most influential pieces…
TechCrunch 2024-04-03 15:13:35 Many startups are hoping that the gradual opening of an IPO window and the prospect of interest rate cuts later this year will finally encourage VCs to be less stingy with their capital. But it’s unlikely that startups’ fundraising slog will become much easier soon, mostly because of venture capitalists’ own capital-gathering…
TMZ.com 2024-04-03 15:00:21 Play video content TMZ.com A feisty raccoon crashed into a Pennsylvania theme park last week and caused utter chaos by attacking innocent bystanders — and TMZ’s got video of the whole thing. The wild critter was looking pretty damn fierce Friday at Hersheypark — opening day for the year, BTW — where…
