Charlie Brown

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reached a settlement with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) provider XCast Labs over allegations that the company illegally facilitated hundreds of millions of illegal robocalls, the regulator announced Tuesday.   As part of the settlement, XCast Labs agreed to not violate the Telemarking Sales Rule in the future and to … Read more

A chief executive officer whose claimed qualifications appear to have no basis in fact was used to promote the HyperVerse crypto fund, alongside celebrity messages of support, as part of a push to recruit new investors into the scheme. A Guardian Australia investigation last month revealed thousands of people have lost millions of dollars to … Read more

The holiday shopping season is officially behind us, but that hasn’t stopped retailers from finding something else to celebrate with a sale. Right now, it’s all about New Year’s, and in honor of that fact, eBay is taking an extra 20 percent off select items through January 7th when you use offer code NEWYEARDEAL at … Read more

If you spend enough time around me you will hear my big, loud cackle – it’s often featured on the Full Story podcast. I trace my love of laughter back to sitting around the dinner table as a kid, where me and my two sisters would quote funny lines from movies (most likely Anchorman or … Read more

A year ago, LG released its brightest OLED TVs yet, and in doing so, the company overcame one of the long-held downsides of the panel technology: they were finally suitable for bright, sunny rooms. Rtings called 2023’s G3 OLED “an outstanding TV with no real weaknesses,” and many other reviews praised it as one of … Read more

You can tell a Nintendo game not just from its feel – the satisfying swish of Link’s sword in the Zelda games, the weight of Mario’s jump – but by its look. They are bright, energetic, characterful. In Splatoon, the game-maker’s most recent hit series, the shooter is reimagined as teams of transforming squids splattering … Read more

During 2023, the shape of politics to come appeared in a video. In it, Hillary Clinton – the former Democratic party presidential candidate and secretary of state – says: “You know, people might be surprised to hear me saying this, but I actually like Ron DeSantis a lot. Yeah, I know. I’d say he’s just … Read more

(NewsNation) — The U.S. Army has opened a school to teach American troops how to defend against drones. The new university was created in response to the surge of drone warfare, which officials say has changed the nature of war. The Joint Counter Small Unmanned Aircraft University has about 1,000 trainees in it right now. Soldiers … Read more

Samsung has announced a trio of new gaming monitors ahead of CES 2024. There’s the 49-inch curved ultra-wide Odyssey OLED G9 (G95SD), the 32-inch flat Odyssey OLED G8 (G80SD), and the 27-inch flat Odyssey OLED G6 (G60SD). The latter two are the first flat monitors Samsung has brought to its Odyssey lineup. Because I’m a simple … Read more

(NewsNation) — Current laws in California protect driverless cars from being ticketed, NBC News reported. Advocates are now urging the state to pass new laws that will closely govern driverless cars. “No citation for a moving violation can be issued if the (autonomous vehicle) is being operated in a driverless mode,” read an internal memo … Read more