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Just as Engadget was hitting publish on its first posts, I was putting a freshly minted English degree to use working at an indie bookshop in Los Angeles. In seemingly unrelated news, Amazon had just reported its first profitable year after switching from selling books to selling “everything” four years before. (It still sold a lot of books.)Our bookstore did a good job keeping shelves stocked with a balance of the more worthy popular hits and smaller, better fare. But we couldn’t have every book a customer might want, so…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Picture your ideal family. Do you have children? How many? It's fairly well established that when asked about their ideal family, people tend to say that two children is the best number to have. But this regularity has come about from asking the simple question: "Ideally, how many children would you like to have?". But if two…

Relationship status satisfaction by perceived quality of alternatives, dating app use, and current relationship status. Credit: Mobile Media & Communication (2023). DOI: 10.1177/20501579231221069 Mobile dating apps are a popular way to meet people. They promise a fun partner and a happy love life. However, a new study by Radboud University researchers shows that people who use dating apps actually tend to be overall less…

Payday 3 developer Starbreeze says that it knows players aren't satisfied with the state of the game and is implementing changes in the near future."Since launch, we’ve been reading your valuable feedback in forums, social media and in video comments in addition to the FeatureUpvote page," global brand director Almir Listo said in a statement. "This helps us massively and is crucial to the continued development of Payday 3." You need a javascript enabled browser to watch…

Every company betting that artificial intelligence will transform how we work and live has a big—and growing—problem: AI is inherently ravenous for electricity.Some experts project that global electricity consumption for AI systems could soon require adding the equivalent of a small country’s worth of power generation to our planet. That demand comes as the world is trying to electrify as much as possible and decarbonize how that power is generated in the face of climate change.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company,…

Having Jeff Bezos, the world’s third-richest man, propose marriage has reportedly left Lauren Sanchez as giddy as a “Bachelorette,” with friends telling People that she’s living her “dream come true” and found the man she “wants to spend the rest of her life with.” But with this marriage being the second for both Bezos and Sanchez, the middle-aged lovebirds know that happily ever may not happen and that Bezos can’t possibly share a lot of his entire net worth, estimated to be about $138.9 billion by Forbes, with his new…

Image via Lucasfilm It is a big day for Star Wars fans.  The annual Star Wars Celebration kicked off with the news of three upcoming films spanning three different eras directed by three different filmmakers; one of them will take place 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker’s events and will see Daisy Ridley’s return as Rey. Mingled with the overall excitement for the film is a bag of mixed opinions, but the real elephant in the room is John Boyega’s character Finn.  It’s no secret that Boyega’s Finn was…

Consumer insights and analytics specialist J.D. Power has released its annual US Electric Vehicle Experience (EVX) Ownership Study that relays not only an increase in EV customer satisfaction but also a shift to more traditional factors, like vehicle quality and styling, rather than categories like range. In its first year of eligibility, the Rivian R1T garnered the top satisfaction rating amongst premium EVs, dethroning 2022’s leader, the Tesla Model 3. J.D. Power is an American consumer…

Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Saturday, expressed satisfaction with the electoral process so far, imploring voters to exercise patience with those in charge of the exercise. Mr Makinde, who voted at exactly 10.10 a.m. at unit 1, ward 21, Abayomi-Iwo Road in Ibadan North-East Local Government Area, urged voters to exercise their civic duties responsibly. Similarly, the wife of a former governor of the state, Florence Ajimobi, described the elections as very peaceful, saying that she was impressed with…

Standardized regression weights plotted in the proposed conceptual model. Credit: Teaching and Teacher Education (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2022.103942 There is a shortage of teachers not only in Germany, but in many countries around the world. For this reason, people without formal teaching degrees are often brought in from other fields to teach in schools. Yet according to a new study, they are often less satisfied in their…