Coding bootcamps and 4-year colleges have nearly identical percentage of alumni employed at Big Five: report

A new study from Switchup has analyzed the hiring rates of coding bootcamp graduates among the Big Five tech companies -- Apple, Microsoft, Facebook,…

Books About Cars for Dad (or Anyone Who Digs Cars)

Max Earey We all know that Father’s Day was invented to force children to panic purchase gifts that reveal their confounding and unexamined feelings about, well, just about…

FEMA Disaster Aid Often Widens Racial Disparities

Research published in 2018 found that, for white Americans, living in a county hit by a large disaster was a financial boon. Those white residents didn’t just see their wealth grow — it grew five times as much, on average, as the wealth…

I tried to get Microsoft to sell me a PC. It didn’t go well

You don't have to think. How lovely is that?I was looking for excitement.I have a habit of doing this in all the wrong places, but I tried to divert…

A Fast Food Pro’s Guide to Eating in Your Car

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…

Collapse of Infrastructure Talks Risks Biden’s Climate Priorities

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…

United Airlines is making a huge change that may astound passengers

A new, friendlier attitude? Screenshot by ZDNet …

Last-Minute Father’s Day Shopping for Car Fans

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…

Keystone XL Pipeline Project Is Canceled

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…

Lax security around URL shortener exposed PII of US retailer Carter’s customer base

US retailer Carter's accidentally exposed the personally identifiable information (PII) of potentially hundreds of thousands of customers.  …