Failing

Once upon a time, long before he set his sights on the White House, Donald Trump leveraged his massive real estate empire into a braggadocious reality TV show called The Apprentice. The show’s bombastic theme song sang “money, money, money, money,” at viewers over shots of Trump’s New York properties, private planes, and helicopters. Now, two decades after the show first premiered, the former president is begging his followers to fork over cash in order to preserve the assets on which he built his throne.  “KEEP…

Samsung's foldable phones might be the best in the industry, but they're not without flaws, and some unfortunate Galaxy Z Fold 4 owners are beginning to learn this from personal experience. Their foldable phones can no longer fold open all the way, and some users are sharing on Reddit how they are being forced to try solving the issues on their own. Needless to say, if you happen to have a Galaxy Z Fold 4 whose hinge appears to be faulty, your safest bet is to try repairing it under warranty (if applicable) at an…

If there’s one thing Donald Trump hates more than losing an election, it’s people thinking he isn’t as rich as he claims he is. On Monday, lawyers for the former president indicated he had been unable to secure the $464 million bond needed to appeal a massive New York civil fraud ruling against him and his company. The filing revealed that 30 underwriters declined to back the bond, which was worth 130 percent of the $355 million civil fraud judgment leveled against him and the Trump Organization in February.…

Manufacturing a car involves choreographing hundreds of parts, most of which are created somewhere else, to be at the same spot at the same time for final assembly. Given the widespread adoption of "just in time" manufacturing methodology, it's understandable that with personnel issues affecting all manufacturing during the pandemic, and the resultant cascading supply chain issues, it would take some time for things to return to normal.As you can see from the chart below, they haven't returned to normal, and almost…

Jamie Dornan's got it pretty good these days: his popular Netflix series The Tourist is back for season two (you can catch up with a Netflix subscription) and we're already craving a third season. But before he became a famous, Golden Globe-nominated actor known for works like Belfast, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar, the Fifty Shades franchise and the chilling TV series The Fall, he was just another desperate performer struggling during Hollywood pilot season.The Northern Irish actor detailed those dismal early days…

In the coming days, Apple will introduce a number of substantial changes to the iOS platform in Europe to abide by the Digital Markets Act (DMA). As a result of the DMA, Apple is now allowing alternative app marketplaces on iOS and giving developers the ability to opt out of using Apple’s in-app payment system. These changes might look significant on the surface, but 34 major tech companies penned a letter to the European Commission expressing their disapproval of these changes and “raising concerns about…

Roots Community Health Center was slammed in 2020, with lines for its COVID-19 testing stations stretching around the block and exam rooms full of people struggling to breathe.Patient after patient at the East Oakland clinic extended their fingers so that healthcare workers could clip on a pulse oximeter, a device that measures the degree to which red blood cells are saturated with oxygen. For healthy people, a normal “pulse ox” reading is typically between 95% and 100%. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had…

Struggling EV startup Faraday Future owes the landlord of its Los Angeles headquarters nearly $1 million after missing the last two months’ rent, TechCrunch has learned. The landlord, Rexford Industrial, filed a previously unreported lawsuit against Faraday Future this week in Los Angeles Superior Court that accuses the startup of missing its January and February lease payments, as well as associated maintenance fees and taxes. Rexford claims the startup owes it $917,887.26 as a result and is…

There aren't enough games with queer characters and themes — and GLAAD, the world's largest LGBTQ media advocacy group, has the statistics to prove it. GLAAD's first annual report on the video game industry found that nearly 20 percent of all players in the United States identify as LGBTQ, yet just 2 percent of games contain characters and storylines relevant to this community. The report highlights three critical truths: Representation matters a lot to LGBTQ players, the remaining gaming audience largely welcomes these…

Russia’s army of online trolls seemed powerful after claims they may have helped Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016. But nearly eight years later, that troll army is struggling in the trenches of Russia’s war on Ukraine as it tries — and fails — to trick the world into buying the Kremlin’s talking points about the invasion. That’s the conclusion of a new report by Facebook parent company Meta released on Wednesday. The Meta researchers say that over the past few years, they’ve seen “a consistent decline in the…