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A 78-year-old Denver resident has been awarded $4 million in damages after a SWAT team raided her home based on a sketchy Find My ping from a stolen iPhone. As reported by Fox News, Ruby Johnson was at home watching TV on January 4 “when she heard a loudspeaker blaring outside her home in Denver's Montbello neighborhood.” According to the report, SWAT officers with rifles and a K9 dog unit “ordered anyone in the house to come out with their hands raised.” Johnson left her home in a bathrobe and was asked by police if she…

A recent botched transition to a new transport e-payment platform in Singapore might offer some answers. On Jan. 9, the Land Transport Authority (LTA) announced that two legacy stored value cards, EZ-Link and NETS FlashPay, would no longer be used to pay for public transport fares starting from June. The move is part of the country's transition to the SimplyGo system that LTA said had commenced in 2019. Apart from its use as payment for public bus and train fares, the contactless EZ-Link cards are also accepted as a…

Elle King appears to be taking a break from her tour in the wake of her drunken performance at the Grand Ole Opry last week.The “Ex’s & Oh’s” singer has postponed five shows, including one that was set for Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday. “Your tickets will be valid for the new dates. If you can’t make the new date, refunds are available at the point of purchase. See you there,” read a Thursday announcement on the singer’s Instagram story.Billy Bob’s Texas on Wednesday announced that the Fort Worth show set for Friday…

It's a precautionary tale for how to assess new markets — and how not to introduce a new product Hertz made a splash in 2021 when it announced that it would buy 100,000 Tesla Model 3 sedans in a little over a year. Six months later, the rental car company said it would buy 65,000 Polestars over five years. It appeared that the EV transition was about to sweep the rental car market. On Thursday, the sweep sputtered. Hertz said in an SEC filing that it would be selling 20,000 of its…

Tesla delivered the first Cybertrucks yesterday, to lukewarm reaction given revelations on its specs, pricing and availability. But Tesla’s miss might be other EV truck makers’ gain, as the big question marks on Cybertruck have been answered disappointingly. At the original Cybertruck unveiling, Tesla said the truck would start at $39,900, be available in late 2021, have a payload of 3,500 pounds in a 6.5ft bed, and a tow rating of up to 14,000 pounds max range of 500+ miles for the top-end version…

Boeing is standing down from the first-ever crewed launch of its Starliner astronaut capsule for NASA, possibly indefinitely, due to safety issues with the spacecraft's parachutes and wiring that were discovered last week.  The Starliner astronaut launch, already years behind schedule, was most recently targeted to launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station on July 21. Now, it likely won't launch at all this summer, and may not get off the ground this year. "It's feasible, but I certainly wouldn't…

via Sony On paper, a high concept sci-fi action thriller produced by Sam Raimi that was written and directed by the creators of A Quiet Place and starred Adam Driver in the lead role was an unmissable opportunity for a genre-bending rump destined to find cult classic status, or at the very least become a midnight madness favorite. Sadly, 65 was nothing but a chore to sit through. “Adam Driver fighting dinosaurs” is all anyone needed to be sold on the project, and even though it does live up to those…

Volkswagen is dealing with one of the risks of tying important car features to paid services. The brand is making its Car-Net connected emergency service free for five years for most 2020 to 2023 model year vehicles after a carjacking in the Chicago suburb of Libertyville. The thief stole a mother's Atlas SUV with her two-year-old son still inside, but police couldn't persuade a VW representative to reactivate Car-Net (a trial period had expired) and help track the car's location without paying $150. Deputies had already…

Google employees have reportedly criticised the company`s leadership, particularly, CEO Sundar Pichai, for how it handled the announcement of its ChatGPT competitor "Bard" this week, calling the announcement "rushed", and "botched". Employees criticised the Bard announcement on the popular internal forum Memegen, calling it "rushed," "botched," and "un-Googley," reports CNBC. "Dear Sundar, the Bard launch and the layoffs were rushed, botched, and myopic. Please return to taking a long-term outlook," read one meme that…

Peloton couldn’t run away from the consequences of corporate mis-management forever. The fitness equipment and media company has agreed to pay a $19 million penalty in a civil case settlement with the Consumer Products Safety Commission. Previously, the commission had charged Peloton with knowingly distributing a recalled device and ignoring device defects in its Tread+ treadmill that could “could create a substantial product hazard and created an unreasonable risk of serious injury,” said the CPSC in a press statement.…