Bill Oakley is a TV writer whose credits include The Simpsons and Disenchantment. He currently serves as executive producer and head Writer of Close Enough on HBO Max. Follow his fast food adventures on Instagram at @thatbilloakley. There is no more enjoyable, nor more appropriate, place to dine on fast food than in your car. […]
Even before Mr. Biden ended negotiations on Tuesday with Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Republican of West Virginia, progressive Democrats had warned that Republicans were unlikely to embrace the scale of spending needed to address climate change. Mr. Biden has now shifted his engagement to a bipartisan group of senators working on their own framework. While […]
A new, friendlier attitude? Screenshot by ZDNet Business travel is coming back. I know this because I just saw a headline in the Wall Street Journal that read: “Business travel is coming back.” Then again, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky insists: “Business travel as we know it has changed forever.” I confess I recently took my […]
Bentley Father’s Day is right around the corner already; funny how things like this sneak up on you. But before you panic, we’ve got some great gifts to buy for your car-loving old man, granddad, or other important men in your life. Just remember: He doesn’t really want that pair of khakis or some new […]
The Canadian pipeline company that had long sought to build the Keystone XL pipeline announced Wednesday that it had terminated the embattled project, which would have carried petroleum from Canadian tar sands to Nebraska. The announcement was the death knell for a project that had been on life support since President Biden’s first day in […]
US retailer Carter’s accidentally exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of potentially hundreds of thousands of customers. On Friday, vpnMentor said the incident was not caused by an unsecured bucket or misconfiguration in a cloud storage system — as is often the case with when it comes to accidental leaks — but rather a “simple […]
Jessica Lynn WalkerCar and Driver From the June 2021 issue of Car and Driver. Car manufacturers know you’re stressed and bored. To calm and amuse you, some offer spa-like audio tracks and peaceful animations across their ever-larger screens, and at least one provides games, karaoke, and fart sounds. If repeatedly making it seem like your […]
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will reconsider federal limits on fine industrial soot, one of the most common and deadliest forms of air pollution, with an eye toward imposing tough new rules on emissions from power plants, factories and other industrial facilities. The announcement, made Thursday by Michael S. Regan, administrator of the Environmental Protection […]
Can you hear it? Can you feel it? Screenshot by ZDNet You’ve barely slept, right? more Technically Incorrect You’ve spent so much time thinking about it that you’ve hardly been able to focus on a single Zoom call. I mean, Teams call. Your family is ignoring you and your dog once even tried to feed […]
Andi HedrickCar and Driver To reduce the number of chips needed in some of its pickup trucks and larger SUVs, GM will manufacture them without automatic stop-start technology. Versions of the Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Suburban, Chevrolet Tahoe, and GMC Yukon SUVs are all affected, as well as the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 […]