Snooty Nantucket residents furious over the arrival of a chain store on their ritzy island are demanding its closure. Roller Rabbit, a pricey, high-end sleepwear brand with a dozen locations nationwide, opened its latest shop earlier this year, right in the heart of Nantucket’s upscale downtown, according to Nantucket Current. But its arrival has sparked a ferocious backlash, as it …
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Google loses appeal in app store fight with Epic Games
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld a jury verdict condemning Google’s Android app store as an illegal monopoly, clearing the way for a federal judge to enforce a potentially disruptive shakeup that’s designed to give consumers more choices. The unanimous ruling issued Thursday by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivers a double-barreled legal blow for …
Read More »Gaming Store Sells Swords To Kids, Says It’s Not A Big Deal, And The Parents Should “Raise Their Children Better”
Moms might not wear capes, but this Redditor’s mother definitely earned one. Back in the 90s, she stumbled upon something alarming—her 11-year-old son had a stash of knives and a dagger hidden in his room. After some digging, she discovered that a local shop had been selling these weapons to him. Furious, she marched over to confront the store owner. …
Read More »Receive Play! Pokémon Prize Pack Series Seven at Your Local Game Store
At your local Play! Pokémon League events, you can socialize, battle, and make new friends (and maybe even a few rivals) while showing off your Pokémon Trading Card Game skills. By participating in friendly competitions and fun, exciting battles at your local game store’s Play! Pokémon events, you’ll get a special Pokémon TCG Prize Pack! Prize Pack Series Seven will …
Read More »JWST sees beauty in the death of a star, offers a preview of what’s in store for our sun
This splash of paint on the canvas of space is the planetary nebula NGC 6072, the dying embers of a ruined star that has reached the end of its sun-like life. Cocooned inside the nebula, within its own ejected outer layers, the fading star is undergoing a transformation into a white dwarf. As the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows …
Read More »Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app Bitchat now on App Store
Bitchat, a messaging app created by Twitter and Block founder Jack Dorsey, is available to download from the iOS App Store. Dorsey says he coded the basis of the app over the course of a weekend in early July. Bitchat operates through Bluetooth mesh networks, which means that users can send messages to others within the range of Bluetooth connectivity …
Read More »Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app is now on the App Store
Earlier this month, Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey a peer-to-peer, Bluetooth-based messaging app he put together. Now, anyone with a compatible iPhone, Mac or iPad (or even Apple Vision Pro) can try Bitchat as it’s . Dorsey created Bitchat under the auspices of “and Other Stuff,” . Per the free app’s description, it allows users to chat with …
Read More »Google Chrome adds AI-powered store summaries to help US shoppers
Google on Monday announced an update to its Chrome web browser that will introduce AI-generated store reviews to U.S. shoppers with the aim of helping to determine the best places to make a purchase. The feature, which will be available by clicking an icon just to the left of the web address in the browser, will display a pop-up that …
Read More »Trump’s big beautiful bill may force your local grocery store to close
Facebook Tweet Email Link New York — Wright’s Market has been a fixture of Opelika, Alabama, a town of around 30,000 near Auburn University, since the 1970s. The supermarket relies on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for roughly one-third of sales. SNAP is a “big piece of what we do,” said owner Jimmy Wright, who has worked at the …
Read More »VPNs top App Store charts as UK age verification kick in
Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images Virtual private network (VPN) apps have become the most downloaded on Apple’s App Store in the UK after sites such as PornHub, Reddit and X began requiring age verification of users on Friday. VPNs can disguise your location online – allowing you to use the internet as though you are in another country. It …
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