Stocks moving the most at noon: Meta, McDonald’s, Teladoc, Ford and more

Stocks moving the most at noon: Meta, McDonald’s, Teladoc, Ford and more

Pavlo Gonchar | light flare | Getty Images Find out which companies are making headlines in the midday business. Meta Platforms – Shares of the company formerly known as Facebook jumped 17% after posting mixed first-quarter results. The company posted a beating in profits, but a disappointing shortfall. It also saw the number of daily…

LineageOS 19 Hands-On: Here’s what you get with official builds

LineageOS 19 Hands-On: Here’s what you get with official builds

LineageOS was created in 2016 as a stock-like Android custom ROM, following the collapse of the CyanogenMod project. We’ve seen it go through several major updates since then, but LineageOS has continued to bring an Android-like (and Google-less, if you choose) experience to dozens of phones and tablets. Now LineageOS 19 based on Android 12…

Snapchat’s Dress Up feature turns your phone into an AR shopping mall

Snapchat’s Dress Up feature turns your phone into an AR shopping mall

It’s becoming a fundamental law of the internet: where people socialize, they should also shop. Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and pretty much every other social media and messaging app on the planet have spent the last two years trying to turn every pixel in your chats and photos into a shopping opportunity in…

These meteorites contain all the building blocks of DNA

These meteorites contain all the building blocks of DNA

Three meteorites contain the molecular building blocks of DNA and its cousin RNA, scientists have recently discovered. A subset of these building blocks had previously been detected in meteorites, but the rest of the collection seemed mysteriously absent from space rocks – until now. The new discovery supports the idea that around four billion years…

I drank a ‘poo’ smoothie that gave me life-threatening diarrhea – for science

I drank a ‘poo’ smoothie that gave me life-threatening diarrhea – for science

Would you do it for money? Jake Eberts, 26, agreed to drink a life-threatening concoction of a cloudy, salty liquid containing Shigella bacteria, commonly found in the “poop” of infected people – all in the name of science. He swallowed a quantity of liquid in a shot glass, knowing it would produce a miserable case…

What Ford, a 9-to-5 workweek pioneer, is learning about the hybrid office

What Ford, a 9-to-5 workweek pioneer, is learning about the hybrid office

Ford Motor Company World Headquarters, Dearborn, Michigan, January 19, 2021. Aaron J. Thornton | Getty Images After several setbacks and delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Ford Motor Co. finally began to welcome its employees back to its offices earlier this month. This was also accompanied by a significant shift in the company’s workplace policy…