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Anyone who went through a John Deere dealer for major equipment repairs since January 2018 is in line to collect. The company will put $99 million into a class action settlement fund, with plaintiffs recovering 26% to 53% of overcharge damages --

Catturd -- a right-wing pseudonymous account -- routinely outperforms the New York Times on X. The Times has built a following of 53 million accounts, but its posts typically generate a few hundred likes or replies. Nate Silver, the statistician ...

If you own an older Kindle and ever factory reset it after May 20, 2026, you will never be able to read new books on it again. Amazon is cutting off support for Kindle models released in 2012 or earlier, according to The Guardian, and resetting them ...

Two weeks after a California jury found Meta negligent in a landmark social media addiction case, the company has started removing ads on its own platforms from attorneys seeking plaintiffs for related lawsuits. Axios identified more than 12 ...

In 2018, the Electronic Frontier Foundation -- the San Francisco nonprofit that has been fighting for digital rights since 1990 -- posted 5 to 10 times a day on Twitter and racked up 50 to 100 million impressions a month. By 2025, that same level of ...

Starting April 20, 2026, Southwest Airlines passengers are limited to one portable charger per person. The charger can't go in the overhead bin or checked luggage. It has to stay in plain sight during the flight so flight attendants can spot ...

Wushan County in Chongqing now has the world's longest outdoor escalator system: 3,000 feet of moving stairs -- 21 escalators plus 8 elevators -- climbing from the county town up to a scenic mountain area above it. The whole ride takes 21 minutes. --

Charcuterie is a perfectly-named visual exploration tool for finding the exact Unicode character you want. Whichever one you click on, it'll fill the screen with similar sigils. You can also sketch one that came to you in a fever dream, and it will ...

Hasbro, the company behind Transformers, Dungeons & Dragons, Monopoly, Magic: The Gathering, and My Little Pony, confirmed a cyberattack after detecting unauthorized network access on March 28 and disclosed the incident to the SEC on April 1. The ...

On a recent podcast, Marc Andreessen, whose firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) manages tens of billions in VC assets, said he engages in "zero" introspection -- calling it a Freudian invention with no pedigree before 1910 that serious people should skip ...