Meet Plague, A Social Networking App That Spreads Information Like A Virus

McDonald’s is fighting back against viral tweets and media reports that it says have exaggerated its price increases. In a post on the company’s website Wednesday, McDonald’s U. S. President Joe Erlinger said reports suggesting the price of the average Big Mac has doubled since 2019 were false. McDonald’s said the average U.

Enlarge / A rendering of the European cargo reentry vehicle proposed by Thales Alenia Space. (credit: Thales Alecia Space) The European Space Agency has awarded initial contracts to a German-based startup and one of the continent's established aerospace companies to develop spacecraft to ferry cargo to and from space stations in low-Earth orbit. ESA announced the two 25 million euro ($27 million) contracts May 22.

Qommittee consists of about 10 drag performers nationwide who have experienced, directly or indirectly, threats, harassment, or violence related to their art form. “Drag is joy, but it’s under attack. Our very existence, our self-expression, our art—all of it is being threatened. And we’ve had enough.”

The urgent request comes after one person in a Nissan was killed by an exploding front-passenger inflator, and as many as 58 people were injured since 2015. Nissan is urging the owners of about 84,000 older vehicles to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators have an increased risk of exploding in a crash and hurling dangerous metal fragments.

Enlarge (credit: 400tmax | iStock Unreleased) Yesterday, Amazon failed to convince a US district court to dismiss the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit targeting the tech giant's alleged history of tricking people into signing up for Prime. The FTC has alleged that Amazon "tricked, coerced, and manipulated consumers into subscribing to Amazon Prime," a court order said, failing to get informed consent by designing a murky sign-up process.

Enlarge / ICQ in Windows 98. (credit: Samuel Axon) After nearly 28 years in operation, messaging service ICQ will cease operations on June 26, according to its current owners. You'd be forgiven for not realizing it still existed; the proto-IM service hasn't been in the mainstream since the 2000s. But in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it simultaneously laid the groundwork for direct messaging and social networking as we came to know it in the post-Facebook era. 28 years of history ICQ was something of an accident, as popular as it became.