Remote workers who move from place to place while doing their jobs are a fast-growing group of online shoppers. These workers don’t act the same way when they buy things, and researchers want to know why. A new study looks at how their tastes and habits change when they watch live sales shows hosted
An old word has suddenly become controversial. For over two hundred years, US laws used “alien” to describe people who are not citizens. That term appeared long before the country’s independence, in a law from 1790, and stayed in official use since 1798. The word simply filled a gap—there was no bet
Picking a school gadget doesn’t have to mean buying a pricey Windows laptop. Two lighter, cheaper options stand out: Chromebooks and iPads. Both fit in a backpack, but they handle daily tasks in different ways. Chromebooks win on price and choice. You can grab a basic model for under a hundred doll
A new sci-fi game called Exodus is on the way, dreamed up by developers who once worked on the popular Mass Effect series. The game puts players in the role of Jun Arslan, a character whose home planet is slowly falling apart because of a space virus called The Rot. But here’s the twist: players get
Banks like JPMorgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America are teaming up to create their own digital money system. This network will start next year through their payment company called Clearing House. It's their way of competing with cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, which have grown a lot i
Technology is evolving fast, and some recent moves raise big questions about privacy, security, and who controls the data. Meta quietly embedded face recognition code in millions of phones through its smart glasses app—a feature they claimed to abandon years ago after legal trouble. Meanwhile, Googl
The decentralized finance world has hit a rough patch. Over the past year, the total money locked in DeFi projects has dropped from $150 billion to just $69 billion—a sharp decline of more than half. At the same time, hackers have stolen over $1. 4 billion, pushing the total stolen in DeFi history p
Grocery stores are changing fast this year. Ribeye prices keep climbing while chicken and pork stay cheap, so careful buyers should focus on value. Watermelons taste best from late May to September, but the rest of the year they travel too far to stay fresh. Walmart is swapping paper tags for digita
When Pi Network first appeared in March 2019, it grabbed attention by riding the wave of Pi Day, a fun nod to the math constant. People loved the idea—a crypto anyone could mine on their phone with no heavy computing power. By the time it hit the mainstream in early 2023, over 60 million users had j
The new three-part Netflix show called The Witness just hit Rotten Tomatoes with an impressive score. Most of Netflix’s big releases spread across different types of stories, but crime docs often draw the biggest crowds. True crime fans usually expect a certain style, yet this series takes a differe
