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Friday the 13th: 5 interesting things you need to know
Here are five interesting things associated with the day.
Fear of the number 13 is scien…
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Brad Pitt says his movie days are numbered: 'I consider myself on my last leg'
The 58-year-old is thinking carefully about the final stage of his career. "What is this section go…
Waiyee Yip
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The Oakland A's have been incredibly unlucky this season
* Using the difference between the number of runs scored and the number of runs given up, we calcul…
Cork Gaines
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Hackers stole Facebook information from 29 million people, including phone numbers and birth dates
For anyone who's filled out a Facebook profile page, those "other details people had on their profi…
Ben Gilbert
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ESPN Got Incredibly Unlucky With Its $1.8 Billion Monday Night Football Schedule
Las Vegas win totals is generally not a good predictive metric, but it does give you a sense of per…
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The next OnePlus phone is skipping a model number and arriving this summer
More notably, OnePlus confirmed to The Verge that the new device would be called the OnePlus 5, ski…
Jeff Dunn
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A growing number of Google vendors are losing their free lunch privileges and are instead faced with a grim selection of pre-packaged foods that they must pay for
Google recently relocated a group of these so-called vendor workers from the tech giant's sprawling…
Nick Bastone
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These are the 10 dirtiest cruise ships, according to the CDC — including an ultra-luxury vessel
The CDC randomly inspects cruise ships to prevent the spread of stomach viruses. Of the 119 it's re…
Brittany Chang
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Most people don't really care about COVID anymore. That's good — and bad.
Even amid a summer spike in COVID cases, the general public's attitude toward the virus is more rel…
Erin Snodgrass
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A hot economy isn't a good reason for the Fed to 'drag its feet' on rate cuts, former central bank economist says
"The longer rates stay high, the more the Fed risks seriously damaging the economy," Claudia Sahm w…
Filip De Mott
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I was rejected from my first promotion at Google. Here's how I took control of my career and landed 3 promotions.
An ex-software engineer shares how she landed her first Google promotion, after she first got rejec…
Ella Hopkins
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America is missing a golden opportunity to boost the job market
Raising the minimum wage could be a win-win-win for the economy, workers, and even businesses. So w…
Emily Stewart
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The stock market is riskier and more volatile than it was in past decades. Here's why.
"The S&P 500 is now heavily weighted to Big Tech, and this group exhibits both higher valuations an…
Aruni Soni
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Exploding drones are proving a weapon unlike any other in Ukraine, and no one is safe, combat videos show
Exploding drones are everywhere and going after anything that moves, not just tanks and armor. "Wel…
Ryan Pickrell
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Here's why the US has more extreme and catastrophic weather events than anywhere else in the world
In the second major storm in a week, tornadoes killed at least 29 people in the South and Midwest t…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Twitter is taking 'extreme measures' to tackle its bot problem. It should verify everyone instead.
The social-media firm said it needed to take "extreme measures" of limiting the number of tweets it…
Hasan Chowdhury
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Is Apple superstitious? We're about to find out.
Some are speculating if Apple will skip over the iPhone 13 and go from the iPhone 12 to the iPhone …
Katie Canales
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Cruise lines are canceling sailings, closing onboard restaurants, and allowing fewer guests onboard amid hiring difficulties
Major cruise lines are struggling to hire back crew as travelers continue flocking to cruises again.
Brittany Chang
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I noticed that my 2-year-old's eyebrows and hair were thinning. Turns out she has childhood alopecia.
The author's daughter was diagnosed with alopecia areata, an autoimmune condition that attacks hair…
Jillian Pretzel
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It's wild that Western governments have decided that TikTok might spy for China. The app hasn't helped itself.
The viral video app is facing mounting pressure from the US to address security concerns over its C…