Dear Abby: Are ‘helicopter kids’ now a thing? Adult kids checking up on parents
DEAR ABBY: My wife and I recently hosted some longtime friends for a few days while they were passing through our area on vacation. We had a fine …
Niantic is trying to improve Pokémon Go for players outside of busy cities
Since its launch in 2016, Pokémon Go has had many updates which have improved and deepened the gameplay experience, keeping players returning past that initial summer heyday. But one area where the game has always lacked is in its sparse distribution of Pokémon and Pokéstops outside of busy cities and towns. It’s a problem that …
Seattle Joins the Rush to Slow Down Traffic on City Streets
Seattle is sprouting. Census Bureau figures released earlier this year show that the city added 15,000 people between summer 2017 and summer 2018, a 2.1 percent jump from the prior year, marking the Emerald City as the nation’s second-fastest-growing large city. Construction of multifamily units is down slightly over last year, but the cranes are …
London startup Portify raises £7m, offering credit building and financial tools for self-employed and … Innovation
The London fintech startup Portify has raised £7 million in a Series A funding round, for its platform to help gig economy and self-employed workers manage their finances, according to TechCrunch. In addition to financial planning with Open Banking to track and plan finances through a mobile app, the company also wants to help workers access credit …
Need to Know: WSU board changes, legalized sports betting and more from the past week
The News: Michigan's Legislature voted Wednesday to legalize sports betting and internet gambling, expanding options for gamblers in a state with …
This 9TB tape shows why magnetic can still be better than SSD or hard drives
Music tapes will bring back warm, fuzzy memories to those born in the early 1980s, but magnetic ribbons have long been replaced by shiny coasters, silicon chips and cloud storage for anyone wanting to store data. But thetechnology is not dead yet – you can buy cheap LTO-7 tapes and get 9TB of native storage …
To the editor: Farmers are doing the right thing
For Ohio farmers, the problem of voluntary vs. mandatory phosphorus reduction measures (“No more half measures for Lake Erie,” Nov. 24) came …