Tags: News

Maui travel and the ethics of tourism

Hawaii’s historic wildfires have caused devastation throughout Western Maui, and more than 1,000 people are missing while another 100 have died, per Axios. Because of this, locals have been vocal about restricting tourism, especially while search and rescue operations are underway, encouraging tourists to cancel their trips. However, many Hawaii natives have been against tourism in…

Is there a ‘richcession’ and could it help the economy?

A recession impacts the middle and lower classes more than the wealthy. But during a “richcession,” it’s the “well-heeled who take a bigger hit than usual,” according to The Wall Street Journal’s Justin Lahar, who coined the term. At the beginning of the year, experts warned of a richcession, claiming that industries such as the luxury goods…

Twitter has reportedly threatened to sue Meta over Threads

Threads, Meta’s response to Twitter, has been live for just about 24 hours and it’s already stirring up some legal trouble. Per reports from both ABC News and Semafor, Twitter’s legal team has allegedly accused Meta of “deliberately” copying the Twitter application and poaching former Twitter employees to do so. “Over the past year, Meta…

Apple fixes its ‘ducking’ autocorrect problem

Our prayers have been answered.  Apple’s upcoming iOS 17 iPhone software will include a new tweak that stops the phone’s autocorrect function from changing a certain curse word (you know the one) to “ducking,” the company announced this week at its Worldwide Developers Conference. The change is made possible by “a state-of-the-art on-device machine learning language model…