Snapchat has had its signature filters to make selfies pop a little extra for awhile, but now even pets can take advantage of the fun. The messaging app just unveiled its new Cat Lenses feature. Cat Lenses allows you to put filters on your cat, which was previously reserved only for human faces, of course.…
Behold, America: The Entangled History of “America First” and “the American Dream”. By Sarah Churchwell. Basic Books; 368 pages; $19.99. Bloomsbury; £20. Get our daily newsletterUpgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. IT IS common for historians to examine the actions of great men. Sarah Churchwell, a professor of American literature…
Aurich / GettyInternet Relay Chat (IRC) turned 30 this August. The venerable text-only chat system was first developed in 1988 by a Finnish computer scientist named Jarkko Oikarinen. Oikarinen couldn't have known at the time just how his creation would affect the lives of people around the world, but it became one of the key…
TORNILLO, Texas (Reuters) - A tent city in the west Texas desert set up to hold immigrant children has expanded its capacity by nearly 10 times to 3,800 beds since it opened in June, officials said on Friday. The facility in the border city of Tornillo sprang up with 400 beds when the Trump administration…
If you're one of the victims of the recently revealed hack of Facebook, you should be extra careful on the internet — and extra watchful of your other online and offline accounts. The data hackers gleaned from the social network could be used for identity theft, and to access accounts ranging from those at banks…
PHILADELPHIA — One morning last year, Michele Carter woke up to find an eviction notice slipped under her apartment door. She had to move, she was later told, to make way for the renovation of her high-rise and the higher-paying tenants it would bring. Ms. Carter, 66, an Air Force veteran who lives on a…
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAerial footage shows the destruction in Mexico Beach, Florida Hurricane Michael has landed on a Florida beach town like the "mother of all bombs", almost wiping it off the map, officials say.The storm smashed into the state's north-west coast near Mexico Beach on Wednesday with 155mph (250km/h)…
JPMorgan’s third-quarter earnings report offered both a bang and a whimper. The whimper echoed louder in the ears of investors. The bang: JPMorgan’s revenue rose 5.2% to $27.8 billion, beating analyst expectations by $380 million. Earnings came in at $2.34 a share, again beating forecasts by eight cents. For a few glorious moments, investors cheered…
IT HAS been over a week since Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and government critic (pictured), walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get paperwork for a marriage. No one has seen him since. Turkish officials say that he was killed by a team of Saudi assassins, who dismembered his body, on orders…
Enlarge / Vaping with a satisfying release? The US Food and Drug Administration made clear on Thursday, October 11, that it has a major bone to pick with an electronic-cigarette vendor that illegally pumped prescription erectile dysfunction drugs into unapproved e-liquid products intended for vaping. The cocky company, HelloCig Electronic Technology Co. Ltd, even advertised…
