Delta Is Sorry For Its Napkins That Encouraged Passengers To Flirt
Both Delta and Coca-Cola apologized after a marketing campaign that encouraged passengers to give their numbers to their “plane crushes” on napkins prompted a debate on whether it was creepy or harmless.
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Why the future of life insurance may depend on your online presence
As the use of algorithms and public data to inform insurance premiums becomes more common, we’ll need to decide what is and isn’t okay
Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy feels like a bleak X-Men story
Netflix’s TV series The Umbrella Academy isn’t as weird as the Gerard Way / Gabriel Bá comic book series it’s based on, but “less weird” for this story is admittedly a very low bar to reach. The first issue of The Umbrella Academy comic features a battle with the zombie robot Gustave Eiffel, which culminates with the Eiffel Tower blasting into space. In the series, showrunner Steve Blackman (Legion, Altered Carbon) reduces that fight to a coy visual reference. His team has carefully pruned the story in a way that embraces the comic’s more bizarre qualities, while making room for a more coherent narrative.
The story of The Umbrella Academy kicks off 30 years ago, when 43 children were born around the world to women who had previously…
Exclusive TSA Pre-Check Allows Passengers To Fly Without Waiting For Airplane
ARLINGTON, VA—Saying the program will drastically cut wait times for those who qualify, the Transportation Security Administration on Thursday introduced an exclusive new pre-check membership that permits travelers who pass a background check and pay a fee to fly without waiting for an airplane. “For years, TSA…
Chrome is getting a dark mode for Windows 10 and macOS
Google is testing out a new dark mode for its Chrome browser. 9to5Google reports that both macOS and Windows 10 will get dark mode support, and it’s currently in testing in the latest Canary development builds of Chrome. Google’s browser appears to enable dark mode by default, picking up your system settings on macOS and Windows.
It’s not entirely clear how Google plans to introduce its dark mode for Chrome. We’ve tested it in the latest Chrome Canary release. On some systems, it respects the system-wide dark mode, and on others, it does not. Google must still be experimenting with the best way to roll this out on both macOS and Windows 10.
The dark mode enables a dark default page for new tabs, darker chrome borders, and…