Renting Clothes Was Supposed to Be the Future of Fashion. Then Shoppers Got Bored.

[ad_1] Rent the Runway is betting that clothing from designers Diane von Furstenberg and Jason Wu can get customers to keep their subscriptions. Rival clothing subscription service Stitch Fix is…

This Supposed Mafia Manifesto Doesn’t Stand Up to a Google Search

[ad_1] One morning in March 2018, three police officers working for Italy’s elite division of antimafia investigators entered a DHL warehouse in Rome. They were looking for a package that…

A pilot landed a plane in the wrong city, nearly 200 miles from where it was supposed to be: report

[ad_1] A pilot landed a flight in a city some 198 miles from its intended destination.  Passengers said the pilot announced he had received the wrong flight path.  United Nigeria…

YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users – Slashdot

[ad_1] An anonymous reader shares a report: Firefox users across the internet say that they are encountering an “artificial” five-second load time when they try to watch YouTube videos that…

Puerto Rico Was Supposed to Be John Paulson’s Paradise. Then Came the Lawsuits.

[ad_1] John Paulson made a fortune on Wall Street betting the housing market would collapse. His reinvention as a property tycoon opening Puerto Rico to the wealthy is proving trickier.…

GROK whales decry supposed FUD from crypto sleuth ZachXBT

[ad_1] The market cap of AI-inspired altcoin $GROK fell sharply on Nov. 13 after well-known blockchain investigator ZachXBT tied its creator to previous possible scams. Supporters of a Grok token,…

Private Debt Was Supposed to Collapse When Rates Rose. Instead It Is Everywhere.

[ad_1] Wall Street’s doom-mongers spent years warning that private lenders would be the next bubble to burst when central banks tightened policy. Instead, the funds are becoming even more ubiquitous…

‘This is not supposed to happen’: Experts on DBS, Citi outage caused by data centre failure

[ad_1] BACKUPS, RECOVERY PLANS NEEDED The importance of the data centre means that banks always have a backup data centre. Some banks also have two data centres that share the…

Opinion | People in Their 20s Aren’t Supposed to Be This Unhappy

[ad_1] Sian Leah Beilock was playing goalkeeper for an elite soccer team in California, part of the Olympic development program, when she became aware that one of the national coaches…

Solar isn’t doing what it’s supposed to in South Africa

[ad_1] Despite the pain of load shedding and high electricity prices, most buyers in South Africa do not want to pay a premium for backup power systems. According to the…