Massachusetts Wants To Pull the Plug On Robinhood
Regulators in Massachusetts are seeking to revoke Robinhood's broker-dealer license in the state, after accusing the company of failing to properly account for fractional shares traded by customers on its platform. They also say the company "continue.....»»
Daily deals April 19: $699 11-inch iPad Pro, $300 off EVGA RTX 3080 Graphics Card, $230 off Acer Predator Helios 300, more
Tuesday's best deals include big price cuts for anyone looking to do some hardcore gaming. Save on the iPad Pro, souped-up EVGA RTX 3080 Graphics Card, HomeKit smart plug, and the ready-made Acer Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop so you can take on j.....»»
Reddit Adds Comment Searching To Help Improve Search Results
Today, Reddit is updating its search feature to index comments. The Verge reports: For the first time, users will have an option to pull results from replies to posts, making it less of a hassle to find something specific outside of general Reddit po.....»»
How "push-pull" companion crops help manage the devastating fall armyworm pest
Adopting a novel planting technique known as "push-pull farming" can help massively reduce crop losses to pests and improve food security in sub-Saharan Africa, new research has found......»»
Robinhood rolls out Crypto Wallets for more than 2 million people
It's been a while, but Robinhood is finally opening its Crypto Wallets to more users. The company announced the news at the Bitcoin conference in Miami on Thursday: More than 2 million users who signed up for the waitlist for Robinhood's Crypto Walle.....»»
Confused cops pulled over a driverless car. It drove off.
In our unenvied contemporaneity, it's apparently completely normal to watch police officers try to pull over autonomous cars for seemingly not having their front lights on. In an Instagram video posted on April 2, a group of San Francisco police offi.....»»
Officers confused as they pull over an empty self-driving car
In what appears to be the first incident of its kind, cops recently pulled over a self-driving car with no one inside it. A video shows what happened next ........»»
Robinhood Users Filed Thousands of Complaints with US Consumer Agency
17 million people trade stocks and cryptocurrency on the Robinhood app. Now Gizmodo has obtained copies of hundreds of complaints filed about the app between mid-2020 until and-2021 with America's consumer protection agency, the FTC: The inability t.....»»
Cops confused as they pull over an empty self-driving car
In what appears to be the first incident of its kind, cops recently pulled over a self-driving car with no one inside it. A video shows what happened next ........»»
Robinhood Releases Crypto Wallet To 2 Million Users, Plans Integration With Bitcoin Lightning Network
Robinhood Markets (HOOD) said Thursday it has activated its crypto wallet for 2 million "eligible" customers, making digital asset transfers broadly possible in the long-firewalled investments app. CoinDesk reports: Chief Product Officer Aparna Chenn.....»»
Silicon wafer suppliers continue to enjoy LTA pull-ins
Silicon wafer suppliers including Sumco and GlobalWafers continue to enjoy strong demand for long-term agreements (LTA) contracts, with order visibility extended to 2024, according to industry sources......»»
MIT Grad Students Vote To Form Labor Union
Graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology overwhelmingly approved forming a union in a two-day vote this week by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. From a report: MIT is the latest Boston-area school where grad students have voted to join a.....»»
Are people more willing to empathize with animals or with other humans?
Stories about animals such as Harambe the gorilla and Cecil the lion often sweep the media as they pull at people's heartstrings. But are people more likely to feel empathy for animals than humans?.....»»
How to track a shark: New research reveals where, why and how sharks and game fish overlap
An international team of researchers, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has compiled a massive dataset that overlays years' worth of information on the position, migration and interaction of sharks and game fish. This research has immed.....»»
Ghost Recon Breakpoint support ends months after NFT drop
Ubisoft is pulling the plug on Ghost Recon: Breakpoint support months after it introduced NFTs to the game......»»
Efforts To Ban Books Jumped an "Unprecedented" Four-Fold In 2021
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Book banning is not new -- in the U.S. alone the practice goes back to Puritan times, when Thomas Morton's book New English Caanan and others opposing this way of life were tossed from Massachusetts. But.....»»
Rovio Re-Releases OG Angry Birds for $0.99, Nostalgia Runs Wild
A whopping 10 years ago, the world got its first taste of Angry Birds. The game became extremely popular, with movies, merchandise, and tons of sequel games coming after it. For whatever reason, in 2019, Rovio decided to pull the original Angry Birds.....»»
Disbelief in human evolution linked to greater prejudice and racism
A disbelief in human evolution was associated with higher levels of prejudice, racist attitudes and support of discriminatory behavior against Blacks, immigrants and the LGBTQ community in the U.S., according to University of Massachusetts Amherst re.....»»
Google Play Crackdown Makes Amazon and Others Pull Digital Purchases
The great Google Play billing crackdown is finally here. From a report: Developers selling digital goods inside their Android apps all need to switch to Google Play billing, or they will be locked out of the Play Store. This has technically always be.....»»
Google Play crackdown makes Amazon, Barnes & Noble pull digital purchases
Digital goods vendors would rather have no purchases than Google Play purchases. Enlarge / The Nook 10" HD. (credit: Barnes & Noble) The great Google Play billing crackdown is finally here. Developers selling digital goods in.....»»
Million-year-old Arctic sedimentary record sheds light on climate mystery, researchers find
New research, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published recently in the journal Climate of the Past, is the first to provide a continuous look at a shift in climate, called the Mid-Pleistocene Transition, that has puzzled scientist.....»»