There was a time when people carried wallets, coin purses, card holders, and even a deck with phone numbers. Books like the Yellow Pages and White Pages were used, you had to memorize your friends’ phone numbers, and you needed an external device to listen to music on the go, like a cassette player, a…
President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill into law Wednesday night, officially ending the longest shutdown in U.S. history.The legislation will fund the government through Jan. 30 and provide money for some agencies for the rest of the fiscal year.For federal workers waiting on paychecks and local food banks helping struggling families, the bill…
Apple released iOS 26.2 beta 1 last week, introducing several updates, such as the option to customize the Liquid Glass appearance of the iPhone’s Lock Screen clock, the ability to set alarms within the Reminders app, and live translation features for users in the EU, among other improvements. The public release of iOS 26.2 is…
Two gay dating apps in China have been removed from app stores as part of a broader crackdown on LGBTQ-related content and activities. The apps Finka and Blued, which were two of China’s most popular apps for LGBTQ+ people to get acquainted, were unavailable as of Tuesday on Apple’s store platform and Android, News.Az reports citing the…
Good morning. I had the pleasure of hosting more than a dozen executives yesterday in a Fortune CEO roundtable discussion about how their strategies are shifting amid economic uncertainty and global complexity. We kicked things off with former Atlanta Fed president Dennis Lockhart, who outlined the state of the economy and memorably said that it…
Video-game players are returning to an old technology to get their dopamine fix: websites. While much of the US$189 billion video-game industry is stagnant or shrinking, the appetite for web-based games like GeoGuessr and chess is soaring. Sales for such titles – advertising and the sums players spend on in-game items – were expected to…
630 Ashlynn Park Wins The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Congratulations are in order for Ashlynn Park! The designer behind New York-based label Ashlyn has won the 2025 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, announced at the event’s ceremony last night by none other than Alex Consani. The event, which honors American design talents, awarded Park with $300,000, while grants…
Apple’s newest iPhone “case,” iPhone Pocket, is more like a functional fashion accessory that can carry an iPhone and other various pocketable items. It is a stretchy sock-like accessory designed to be carried or worn. The result of a collaboration between Apple and Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake, named for its late founder, iPhone Pocket…
Topline A broader stock market rally on Monday, fueled by eight Senate Democrats siding with Republicans to back a deal that would end the government shutdown, added tens of billions of dollars to the fortunes of the world’s richest people. The world’s wealthiest people had billions added to their combined net worth on Monday. Getty…
Apple has been forced to remove Blued and Finka, China’s two most widely-used gay dating apps, from its App Store after receiving orders from the Cyberspace Administration of China, the country’s chief internet regulator and censorship body. The takedown, first uncovered by Wired, represents the latest blow to China’s embattled LGBTQ+ community.“We follow the laws…