A Victim Of Hurricane Harvey Describes What It Was Like When Her House Flooded

Marlin Leal was with her parents and two younger siblings as the water kept rising.

Chemical Plant Near Houston Warns It’s About To Explode

“There’s no way to prevent it,” the CEO said.

Nike Agrees To Help Watchdog Group Inspect Its Overseas Factories

After pressure from Georgetown students, the apparel giant will aid inspections by a worker rights group.

A Third Of Americans Say They Know Someone Affected By Harvey

Early reviews of the government’s response to the disaster are generally positive.

Amazon Music Unlimited just dropped its price for college students

The fall semester is upon us and many students are returning to school for another few months of college coursework. If you’re counted among them — and you have a valid college/university documentation — Amazon is hoping you’ll sign up for its Music Unlimited service. Why choose it over competitors? Because it just got considerably cheaper. It’s not unusual for … Continue reading

Essential just made a huge mistake with personal customer info

If you’re one of the folks who pre-ordered an Essential Phone, there’s at least a small chance that you received a strange email from the company late last night. This email – which came from a customer care email address from Essential – asks consumers to reply with pictures of a photo ID, and alternate email address, and a telephone … Continue reading

Instagram brings portrait and landscape photos to batch posts

It wasn’t too long ago that Instagram introduced the ability to share more than one photo in the same post, and now it is improving that feature. Going forth, and assuming you’ve updated to the 12th version of Instagram on iOS or Android, you can upload more than one photo in the same post even if they have a landscape … Continue reading

Best Buy plans to send sales consultants to more homes this fall

Best Buy, the company that’ll sell you overpriced HDMI cables and charge a premium for making basic adjustments to your TV, wants to put its sales people in more houses. The Associated Press reports that the expanded service will be free, and this fa…

Robots learn to understand the context of what you say

It can be frustrating when telling robots what to do, especially if you aren’t a programmer. Robots don’t really understand context — when you ask them to “pick it up,” they don’t usually know what “it” is. MIT’s CSAIL team is fixing that. They’v…

Instagram says hackers swiped contact info for verified users

Instagram just suffered a potentially serious (and this time, very real) data breach. The social photo service is sending out alerts that intruders got access to the phone numbers and email addresses for a number of “high-profile” users by exploitin…