OCTOBER 30, 2020
Netflix is raising the price of its HD standard subscription by $1 to $13.99 per month, marking the first time the streaming giant has raised prices since January 2019.
The 4K premium subscription will jump from $15.99 to $17.99, according to an announcement on Thursday.
Netflix's $8.99 plan, which is not broadcast in high definition, will not see a...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Bruce Springsteen says the "joyless" Trump White House has made Americans lose "their mojo" and sense of fun.
"There's no art in this White House. There's no literature, no poetry, no music. There are no pets in this White House: no loyal man's best friend, no Socks, the family cat," the "Letter to You" singer said on his...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Apple CEO Tim Cook. - Jeff Chiu/AP
One of the biggest contributors to Apple’s earnings is in jeopardy: Apple reaps up to $12 billion a year in revenue from Google, which pays the iPhone maker to be the default search engine on Apple devices. As Apple and Google report their quarterly earnings Thursday, analysts have an eye on...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Wynnton Mott, 19, center, and Faith Ocoko, 19, right, vote early at the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in Madison, Wisc. - Lauren Justice/For TWP
The polls indicate that if President Trump wins reelection Tuesday, it’ll probably be because he manages another narrow victory in the electoral college while losing the popular vote, just as...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Officials said Zeta destroyed many structures and downed more than 200 trees. - Edmund D. Fountain / NY Times
The storm is cutting off electricity all along its path.
Hundreds of thousands of people were without electricity in states across the South on Thursday as Hurricane Zeta barraged through the region with powerful winds, shredding homes and businesses and...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Do you have what it takes to enter the NASA Lunar Delivery Challenge? - NASA
NASA's Artemis program aims to land astronauts on the surface of the moon in 2024, and eventually create a sustainable base camp on the lunar surface to act as a hub for scientific research and serve as a base for future exploration...
OCTOBER 29, 2020
Outside the Notre-Dame basilica in Nice, France, on Thursday. The attack at the church comes just weeks after the beheading of a teacher near Paris. - Sebastien Nogier/EPA, via Shutterstock
PARIS — Less than two weeks after the beheading of a French schoolteacher, an assailant carrying a knife entered the towering neo-Gothic basilica in the southern city...
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Microsoft on Wednesday reported that an Iranian hacking group had attempted to target high-ranking attendees of international security conferences, including the upcoming Munich Security Conference.
Tom Burt, the corporate vice president of Customer Security and Trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post that the Iranian hacking group known as "Phosphorus" had "masqueraded" as conference organizers in order...
OCTOBER 28, 2020
US Senator Ted Cruz. - Photograph: Greg Nash
Sen. Ted Cruz during a hearing on Wednesday accused Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey of censoring content with an anti-conservative bias, with the Texas Republican focusing his argument around a policy the tech company has since changed.
Cruz slammed Dorsey during the Senate Commerce Committee hearing over the company's decision earlier this...
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Department Of Justice Holds News Conference On Chinese National Security, John Demers speaks during a Department of Justice news conference with Christopher Wray on Oct. 28. - Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images/Bloomberg
The Justice Department announced that eight Chinese operatives were charged for allegedly carrying out an illegal law enforcement operation in the U.S. aimed at pressuring dissidents to...
