When Something Goes Wrong With Your Flight, These People Take Charge
Inside a tornado-hardened office in Texas, 1,700 American Airlines employees manage the carrier’s operations, responding to bad weather, plane trouble and ailing passengers.
Category: Tech
Instacart agrees to refund subscribers $60 million in FTC settlement
Instacart has agreed to pay out $60 million in subscriber refunds, the Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday. The refunds will help settle a lawsuit
Strava puts popular “Year in Sport” recap behind an $80 paywall
Earlier this month, Strava, the popular fitness-tracking app, released its annual “Year in Sport” wrap-up—a cutesy, animated series of graphics summarizing each user’s athletic achievements.
Power Restored for Most of San Francisco After Widespread Outage
The hourslong outage affected nearly a third of the city and forced the closure of transit stations. Service was restored for most customers late Saturday.
Nearly a Quarter of San Francisco Without Power as Outages Drag On
The widespread outage forced the closure of businesses and transit stations, and led Waymo to suspend its driverless taxi services. Some power was returning late
Not too big, not too expensive: The Chevrolet Equinox EV
There’s a lot of goodwill out there for the Chevrolet Bolt. As maybe the first properly affordable longer-range electric car on the market, the Bolt
Trump’s energy secretary orders a Washington state coal plant to remain open
SEATTLE—The last coal-fired power plant in Washington state was set to go cold at the end of the year. It would then switch to natural
Nearly a Third of San Francisco Loses Electricity
At least 125,000 customers out of 414,000 lost power on Saturday.
Watch Out Elasticsearch! Tiger Data's PostgreSQL BM25 Search Extension Goes Open Source
Previously proprietary PostgreSQL extension is now freely available on GitHub.
What Google Photos? Self-Hosting Photo Storage with PhotoPrism Using Docker in My Homelab
PhotoPrism offers one path toward that goal of data ownership. With PhotoPrism, your vacation photos don’t become training data for someone else’s business model. They
How Europe’s new carbon tax on imported goods will change global trade
For people living in the European Union, the price of their next car, home renovation, and even local produce may soon reflect a climate policy
Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs
At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we’ve written before, this is
Engineering’s AI reality check
Most engineering leaders cannot answer the one question their CFO is about to ask: “Can you prove this AI spend is changing outcomes, not just
U.S. and Venezuela Jam Caribbean GPS Signals to Thwart Attacks, Raising Flight Hazard
Military brinkmanship between Tweety McTreason and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has led to an increase in electronic warfare in the region.