Social event planning app Partiful, which calls itself “Facebook events for hot people,” has firmly replaced Facebook as the go-to platform for sending party invitations. But what Partiful also has in common with Facebook is that it’s collecting a tsunami of user data, and Partiful could have done better at keeping that data secure. On Partiful, hosts can create online …
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Tesla’s insurance arm accused of ‘egregious delays’ and ‘systemic failures’ by CA regulator | TechCrunch
Tesla has been hit with an enforcement action by California’s Department of Insurance (CDI) for routinely denying or delaying customer claims despite years of warnings from the state regulator, according to a new pair of filings. Tesla’s insurance arm, along with its partner State National Insurance Company, engaged in “willful unfair claims settlement practices” including “egregious delays in responding to …
Read More »The Best MagSafe Phone Grips
MagSafe grips are hardly the only type of phone grips available. In fact, there are four main other types of grips you can buy. Cases with attached grips. These are cases with a grip attached to the back. You get a strong and durable grip that will never fall off, but the trade-off is a thicker phone, and these cases …
Read More »I Test Nearly 60 Office Chairs to Pick the Best One
How to Sit Properly at a Desk AccordionItemContainerButton It’s not just about finding a chair you like. We’ve rounded up several tips on how to set up your desk properly here, and how to avoid tech neck, but here are a few highlights. Sitting for too long in a day is not good for your health, no matter what chair …
Read More »The Best Toiletry Bags for Every Kind of Traveler
Others We Tested There were multiple great bags we tried whose features or designs just didn’t add up to a place in the top spots above. However, everyone has something different they’re looking for in a toiletry bag, so while not perfect for us, some of these options may still be perfect for you. Photograph: Kat Merck Monos Metro Toiletry …
Read More »Why US Power Bills Are Surging
Now, electricity prices are surging in addition to all of the uncorked demand from the Covid-19 pandemic, when the global economic slowdown and pressure from policymakers kept a lid on utility bills. “I think if we were to repeat this analysis for next year, there would probably be a little bit of an uptick this year, but the data that …
Read More »Our Impatient Coffee Lover Found the Best Pod Coffee Maker
I was really annoyed when I realized that Nespresso sent me this brewer in black. Champagne problems, I know—but this brewer comes in so many delightful colors, from deep red and orange to pastel lavender and pink. It looks cute on your countertop with its little rounded figure and relatively short stature. The Nespresso Vertuo Pop+ can handle all Vertuo …
Read More »Apple and Google Pull ICE-Tracking Apps, Bowing to DOJ Pressure
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Read More »The Vision Pro Was An Expensive Misstep. Now Apple Has to Catch Up With Smart Glasses
When discussing the development of AR and AR devices back in 2016, he said that most people wouldn’t find it acceptable to be “enclosed in something … because we are sociable people at heart.” He was spot on. It turns out that what people really want at this moment is to just wear something that looks good and feels like …
Read More »Gear News of the Week: Adobe Premiere Lands on iPhone, and Nothing Lets You Design Your Own Widgets
Adobe has had a busy year designing and redesigning a number of its most popular apps for mobile, and Premiere for iPhone is the latest—a mobile-first video editing workflow that adapts most of the tools from the desktop version of Premiere to a mobile user interface. You can trim, layer, edit, and even auto-generate captions, alongside all the basic editing …
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