Category: everydayblog


  • See-through news: all the latest transparent tech gear

    Gadgets, much like fashion, can make style comebacks. For tech: we’ve lived through the ’80s beige keyboards, transitioned to the ’90s with gray and black plastic video game systems plus bright colors for Sony’s Walkman and Nintendo’s Game Boy handhelds, and then, at the turn of the millennium, welcomed the amazing see-through iMacs, N64 controllers,…

  • Judge Dale Ho Faces Demands to Continue Eric Adams’s Prosecution

    Judge Dale E. Ho, who is overseeing the foundering corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York, is facing a storm of demands that he look deeply into the federal government’s reasons for seeking to drop the prosecution. On Monday night, three former U.S. attorneys from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut filed a…

  • Spotify’s HiFi streaming could finally arrive this year

    It’s been nearly four years since Spotify announced a HiFi tier for its music streaming service that would support lossless audio. That wait could end this year, Bloomberg reports, as the company works to finalize details, including streaming rights. Spotify could charge as much as $5 or $6 extra per month for the new tier…

  • Delta Plane Crashes at Toronto Airport While Landing

    A Delta Air Lines flight from Minneapolis crashed and overturned while landing at Toronto Pearson Airport on Monday afternoon, with photos showing the plane with its belly up on the tarmac. Delta Flight 4819 crashed while landing around 2:45 p.m. local time, Federal Aviation Administration officials said in a statement, as powerful gusts of wind…

  • The best Presidents Day sales from Apple, Bose, Google, and more

    Thanks to the one-two punch that is Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day, there are plenty of sales to take advantage of throughout the month of February. And while V-Day might officially be behind us, Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart, and plenty of other retailers are still discounting a range of tech for Presidents Day, including some…

  • Rubio Lands in Saudi Arabia for Talks on Gaza and Ukraine

    Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived on Monday in Saudi Arabia for the second leg of a whistle-stop Middle East tour to discuss the future of both Gaza and Ukraine amid criticism that the Trump administration was acting without consulting relevant foreign partners about the wars in both countries. Mr. Rubio, who flew to Riyadh…

  • BMW’s next-gen EVs depend on an unassuming black box called ‘Heart of Joy’

    Last November, I strapped into the rear passenger seat of an all-electric, four-door sedan with BMW test driver and 24-hour racer Jens Klingmann behind the wheel. It was a cold day at BMW’s Performance Driving Center in Greer, SC, and beneath the five-point harnesses, roll cage, and heavily camouflaged body, Klingmann had an unexpected co-pilot:…

  • Damaging Winds to Lash the East Coast as Part of Powerful Winter Storm

    A sprawling storm that blanketed some parts of the Northeast with up to seven inches of snow and deluged parts of the South with heavy rain and deadly flooding is next expected to deliver powerful, damaging winds that will last into Monday. Power outages, downed trees and hazardous road conditions could disrupt daily life and…

  • YouTube TV has a deal to keep Paramount content

    Days after YouTube published a blog post saying it could lose Paramount content soon, it updated the post to announce a deal to keep it. The company posted on X that, as a result, channels such as CBS, CBS Sports, and Nickelodeon and add-ons like Paramount Plus, Showtime, and BET Plus will stick around after…

  • A Pro-Ukraine Activist Is Accused by Slovakia’s Leader of Trying to Topple Him

    Hostile to Russia ever since Soviet tanks appeared near her childhood home in 1968 in what was then Czechoslovakia, the now grandmother was delighted to have her photograph taken with a soldier who was fighting Russian invaders in Ukraine. “He was a hero to me,” Lucia Stasselova, 66, said of the soldier, whom she met…