There are plenty of options out there for customers looking to cut the cord with their local cable provider. One of the more popular options out there is DirecTV Now. It’s one of the more reasonably priced packages that doesn’t require a contract with a cable company, but that price will go up slightly towards […]
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Code Now. Pay Tuition Later.
Last year, Lavell Burton decided he wanted to learn to code. He searched online for coding bootcamps, and was surprised to find that many of them cost several thousand dollars upfront. Burton, then 36, was hoping to move from his maintenance job aboard an American naval ship to a career in software engineering in California, […]
Three months later, a mass exploit of powerful Web servers continues
Enlarge (credit: Malwarebytes) More than 115,000 websites—many run by major universities, government organizations, and media companies—remained wide open to hacker takeovers because they hadn’t installed critical patches released 10 weeks ago, security researcher Troy Mursch said Monday. A separate researcher reported on Tuesday that many of the sites were already compromised and were being used […]
What time is Coronation Street on? ITV soap moves to later slot as Pat Phelan returns
Coronation Street usually airs at 7.30pm on Monday, however, that won’t be the case tonight and the rest of the week’s time slots have changed too. Due to the Britain’s Got Talent semi-finals, the ITV soap will air at 9pm every night Monday to Friday for half an hour. The talent contest’s result programme will […]
One Year Later, ‘Fast and Furious’ Still Hasn’t Dealt With #JusticeForHan
(Welcome to The Soapbox, the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: it’s been one year since the release of The Fate of the Furious and the lack of #JusticeForHan still stings.) The Fast & Furious franchise is headed for its ninth entry with Hobbs & […]
Dating later in life has been made easy with Debrett's new over 50's guide
In the past it has concerned itself with such pressing matters as whether to serve guests from the left or right at dinner (the left, if you would be so kind); how to address an envelope to a Marquis or a Duke (The Most Honourable the Marquis of… His Grace the Duke of…) and how […]
#Bumpgate One Year Later, Airbus’ Cargo Sleeping Bunks, Why Not to Visit the Sheraton Maldives and More
#Bumpgate One Year Later, Airbus’ Cargo Sleeping Bunks, Why Not to Visit the Sheraton Maldives and More Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order […]
Make a good game — worry about transmedia later
Jon Goldman has some advice for indie developers who are trying to manufacture transmedia IP from the get-go: Don’t. Transmedia is the intersection of different mediums, like launching a game alongside a comic book or movie set in the same universe — and it’s something Goldman is very familiar with. He’s the managing partner at […]
United Airlines’ #BumpGate: One Year Later
United Airlines’ #BumpGate: One Year Later Advertiser Disclosure The credit card offers that appear on the website are from credit card companies from which ThePointsGuy.com receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not include all credit […]
30 Years Later, ‘Beetlejuice’ Remains Peak Michael Keaton
It’s been too long, painfully so, since Michael Keaton got to be even remotely as funny and wild on screen as he is as the title character of Beetlejuice. Keaton has mercifully had a bit of a career revival in the last handful of years, having starred in two of the last four Best Picture […]
