• Things can only get worse .

    The message to Rishi Sunak is: Don't listen to D:Ream - walk away now and call an election before there is no one left to vote for you.

  • Congress can’t ban TikTok ‘just in case’

    TikTok is used by around 150 million Americans, including journalists. Photo courtesy of Nordskov Media. Like a bad penny, bills to ban TikTok keep turning up in Congress. We’ve written before about how such proposals are unconstitutional and would enable mass censorship. The newest legislation that would effectively ban the platform, passed earlier this month by the House of Representatives, is no exception.Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review, Freedom of the Press...

  • The Kindle Paperwhite just can’t be beat at this price

    You know Amazon is going to discount its best branded tech on deals days, and that's certainly the case here with the Kindle Paperwhite. As part of its Spring Deals promotion, Amazon has slashed 23% off the price of the 16GB Kindle Paperwhite. That means instead of £149.99 you'll be paying £114.99 – a far more tempting price for an excellent reading device that's easily one of the best we've reviewed. This Paperwhite remains our favourite Kindle – and we've reviewed them all. It packs a...

    • ZDNet

    You can still get an Echo Pop speaker for just $23 on Amazon

    An Echo Pop is the perfect way to add a little pop of Alexa to your life this spring, pun intended.

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    Here’s what happens if Trump can’t get a $464 million bond

    Donald Trump’s legal team and the New York Attorney General’s office are working hard ahead of the former president’s Monday’s deadline to secure a bond for the multimillion-dollar civil fraud judgment against him. Trump personally owes over $454 million stemming from the ruling made by Judge Arthur Engoron back in February. The figure balloons up to $463.9 million when including the money owed from his sons, Eric and Donald Jr., the Trump Organization and the interest that was accrued as of the...

  • From Brideshead to Saltburn: why we can’t get enough of country house stories

    These posh piles hum with violence and confusion. An ideal landscape for fiction, argues the comedian and writer, whose debut novel was sparked by wondering: does Jeeves ever feel class rage?At no point in the past 400 years has anyone campaigned for more stories about posh people in country houses. It wasn’t as though I had spotted a gap in the market. At times when I was working on my novel, The Kellerby Code, I would gaze about me in a kind of dizzy grief as I remembered Brideshead Revisited...

    • Forbes

    Why Trump Can’t Pledge His Truth Social Shares Even After It Goes Public

    Donald Trump is on the cusp of adding $2.9 billion to his balance sheet. But it won't help him secure a bond to cover his $455 million fine in New York.

  • Realtor rules just changed dramatically. Here’s what buyers and sellers can expect

    So long, 6% commission. For decades, real estate commissions have been somewhat standardized, with most home sellers paying 5% to 6% commission to cover both the listing agent and the buyer’s agent. On Friday, everything changed. A landmark agreement from the National Assn. of Realtors paved the way for a new set of rules that will likely shake up the entire industry, affecting sellers, buyers and the agents tasked with pushing deals across the finish line. The most pivotal rule change pertains...

  • ‘If you can’t change it, might as well embrace it’: Blind Barista inspires throughout Topeka

    TOPEKA (KSNT) - Being diagnosed with stargardt disease in freshman year of high school, Heather Martens didn't let her vision quality dictate how she would live. Bringing coffee, a positive attitude and inspiration throughout Topeka, Martens exemplifies what it means to be a remarkable woman. Before she was a business owner, Martens had been a []

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    This Wi-Fi 6 Router Is One of Our Favorites, and You Can Get It Today for Just $75

    TP-Link makes a lot of great routers, and you can grab one of our favorites for just $75.

  • Apple can’t get out of facing a class-action lawsuit over AirTags stalking claims

    A San Francisco judge has ruled that Apple must face a lawsuit accusing the company of negligence over the potential stalking risks created by its AirTags, Bloomberg reports. While the bulk of the roughly three dozen claims in the class-action suit were dismissed, US District Judge Vince Chhabria denied Apple’s bid to have the suit thrown out based on three plaintiffs’ claims alleging that “when they were stalked, the problems with the AirTag’s safety features were substantial, and that those...

  • TV can spark social change. These big names just urged Hollywood writers to embrace it

    Halle Berry got the memo. At “A Day of Unreasonable Conversation,” a conference at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on Monday, the star regaled an audience of TV and film writers, Hollywood executives and activists with a deeply personal episode: About three years ago, when she experienced excruciating pain after sex with her then-new partner, Berry’s doctor diagnosed her with “the worst case of herpes he had ever seen,” she recalled. Event co-chair Kerry Washington had opened the proceedings by...