Southwest Workers Say They Suffered Frostbite During 16-Hour Shifts
News December 30, 2022
The ongoing winter storm sent temperatures plummeting in many parts of the country. The weather and delays from Southwest Airlines meant a grueling work week for Southwest ground crews. Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) As angry as passengers have been during this past week of delayed and canceled flights,... Read more
Twitter is acting up with intermittent error messages and notifications that won’t load
Tech December 30, 2022
What are the odds that someone’s walking around randomly unplugging server racks? Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge If you’re having issues while trying to use Twitter tonight, you’re not alone. Dozens of users are reporting various errors, saying they’re getting messages that they’ve exceeded their rate limit,... Read more
The Disney Plus original already has a teaser trailer, featuring some of his cameos in the Marvel movies. Disney will release a documentary about comic book titan Stan Lee in 2023 as an original title for its Disney Plus streaming service. In a Marvel.com post, the company said the... Read more
TikTok will be banned on most US federal government devices
Tech December 30, 2022
The measure was included in a mammoth $1.7 trillion spending bill that President Biden just signed. TikTok will be outlawed on almost all devices issued by the federal government after lawmakers passed a $1.7 trillion spending bill. Officials crammed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act, which the Senate... Read more
US military biometric capture devices loaded with data were sold on eBay
Tech December 28, 2022
Iris scans, fingerprints, and photos of over 2,600 people were found unencrypted and protected by a default password. Image: Getty Old US military equipment being sold on eBay contained what appears to be biometric data from troops, known terrorists, and people who may have worked with American forces in... Read more
Southwest cancels thousands of flights, leaving passengers stranded across the US
News December 28, 2022
Transpo/ Tech The airline canceled over 9,000 flights across the US, far more than other carriers, as its point-to-point system left planes and crews out of place. Southwest Airlines canceled over 2,600 flights on Tuesday. Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Southwest Airlines has left thousands of... Read more
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile could avoid $200 million in fines thanks to FCC deadlock
Tech December 28, 2022
/ In 2020, the FCC proposed a $200 million fine over claims that the carriers sold customers’ real-time location data to third parties. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Mobile carriers, including AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile, could temporarily avoid paying $200 million in privacy penalties because of the... Read more
Home Assistant is getting a new voice assistant that takes on the “basics” of smart home control. It will be built by developer Michael Hansen, who is responsible for the open-source voice assistant Rhasspy. Home Assistant’s Conversation integration can already take text commands and could become the basis of... Read more
LG Innotek is ready to put true optical zoom lenses in the next wave of flagship phones
Tech December 28, 2022
The camera component supplier has unveiled a telephoto module with real moving optics to cover a 4-9x range — no digital zoom required. The camera module uses a tiny, precise actuator to move the lens between 4x and 9x telephoto settings.Image: LG Innotek LG’s smartphone-making days may be over,... Read more
