All posts tagged: Waiting

Waiting for Day Zero | Will Alden

Waiting for Day Zero | Will Alden

Published by Jenni Sidey

This past Easter Sunday the leaders of an Iranian opposition party in exile gathered for a celebratory picnic with family and friends at Lake Balboa Park in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. Citrus-and-mint-scented hookah smoke wafted from a lakeside gazebo decked with the prerevolutionary flag of Iran, and a hundred or so people mingled around long picnic tables and considered the THANK YOU BIBI & TRUMP posters for sale. The revelers passed paper bowls of ash reshteh, a thick soup of beans and noodles, and munched on green almonds as a portable PA system blared the EDM track “Ayatollah Is Dead” and the Persian pop anthem “Javid Shah” (“Long Live the Shah”). Occasionally they broke into chants or toasts in support of Iran’s former crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, who has lived in the United States since his father was deposed during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Over the previous five weeks, as the US and Israel embarked on a war explicitly aimed at toppling the Islamic Republic, Pahlavi quickly ramped up his campaign to be …

Tesla tells HW3 owner to ‘be patient’ after 7 years of waiting for FSD

Tesla tells HW3 owner to ‘be patient’ after 7 years of waiting for FSD

Published by skeptic

The Dutch Tesla owner who launched a collective claim against Tesla over FSD on HW3 cars called Tesla to ask about the €6,400 he paid for “Full Self-Driving” in 2019. After 7 years of waiting, Tesla’s answer was to “just be patient.” It’s an almost comically tone-deaf response that perfectly encapsulates Tesla’s approach to the HW3 problem — and it’s only going to fuel the growing legal pressure in Europe. What Tesla told an HW3 owner on the phone Mischa Sigtermans, the Dutch Model 3 owner who launched the HW3 collective claim site we reported on earlier this week, called Tesla today and recorded the entire conversation. He posted the details in a thread on X. Advertisement – scroll for more content Sigtermans paid €6,400 for FSD when he bought one of the first Model 3s in the Netherlands in 2019. Last week, the Dutch vehicle authority RDW granted Tesla type approval for FSD Supervised — the first in the EU. But the approved build only runs on Tesla’s newer AI4 computer. HW3 cars like …

‘Waiting without answers’: Gaza mother’s fear for her three imprisoned sons | Israel-Palestine conflict News

‘Waiting without answers’: Gaza mother’s fear for her three imprisoned sons | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Published by Sam Flores

Gaza City, Gaza Strip – In her makeshift canvas tent, Inaam al-Dahdouh sits with her six grandchildren, turning over a photograph of her three sons, detained two years ago in the first few months of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. As Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is marked on Friday, the 62-year-old mother finds herself living a different kind of pain this year. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list It is no longer only the anguish of imprisonment and separation, but a looming fear shaped by new and uncertain scenarios following the approval of an Israeli law allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners in late March 2026. Palestinians mark Palestinian Prisoners’ Day annually on April 17. This year, it comes amid an unprecedented surge in the number of detainees and worsening conditions. According to prisoners’ advocacy groups, more than 9,600 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons as of early April 2026, compared with about 5,250 before the war – an increase of nearly 83 percent. They include 350 children, and more than 3,530 administrative …

The Nautilus Watch Collectors Have Been Waiting for Is Back

The Nautilus Watch Collectors Have Been Waiting for Is Back

Published by Jenni Sidey

Few watches have rewritten the rules of modern watchmaking quite like the Patek Philippe Nautilus. When it debuted in 1976, the design was borderline scandalous: a luxury timepiece made of steel, shaped like a ship’s porthole, and priced like a dress watch from a brand better known for perpetual calendars more than sporty swagger. Nearly 50 years later, the Gérald Genta-designed model has gone from controversial oddball to perhaps the single most recognizable luxury sports watch on the planet—and arguably the most difficult one to buy at retail without either a longstanding relationship or a monk’s patience. To mark the model’s 50th anniversary, Patek Philippe is unveiling four limited-edition Nautilus models at Watches and Wonders 2026. Instead of radically reinventing the watch—an approach that would likely trigger a small crisis among collectors—the Genevan manufacture is leaning into what made it famous in the first place: slim cases, clean dials, and that unmistakable porthole-inspired silhouette. The Return of the ‘Medium’ Nautilus The star of the anniversary lineup is the new Reference 5610/1P-001, a platinum Nautilus measuring …

‘I just want to feel like me again’: the women still waiting for breast reconstruction years after lockdown | Women’s health

‘I just want to feel like me again’: the women still waiting for breast reconstruction years after lockdown | Women’s health

Published by Sam Flores

Every time she lifts her arms to get dressed or hang out her washing, Julie Ford gets a painful reminder of one of the most terrifying experiences of her life. At 7am one day in April 2021, she had gone into hospital, alone and wearing a mask, to have her right breast and lymph nodes removed in a bid to stop breast cancer from spreading. Later that day, still groggy from the anaesthetic, in pain and with surgical drains hanging from both sides of her chest, she had staggered to the door with the help of two nurses. She was eased into a friend’s car and driven home to fend for herself. While Julie’s breast had been removed, it was not reconstructed. Usually, both procedures are carried out in the same operation. But as reconstruction using tissue from the patient’s abdomen is a complex, eight-hour procedure requiring a large surgical team, it was considered “non-essential” and paused by most NHS trusts during the Covid-19 pandemic. Like hundreds of women with breast cancer who underwent urgent …

The Google TV stick may be the budget Chromecast successor we’ve been waiting for

The $30 Google TV stick may be the budget Chromecast successor we’ve been waiting for

Published by skeptic

NurPhoto / Contributor/ NurPhoto via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways A new 4K Onn streaming stick was reportedly spotted at Walmart. It could be an affordable replacement for Google Chromecast. You get 4K support, Dolby Atmos, and Google TV. It’s been about two years since Google stopped making its Chromecast streaming stick, and if you’ve been looking for a suitable replacement, your answer might finally be here.  Walmart hasn’t announced anything official, but a new 4K streaming stick (simply called Onn 4K Streaming Device) was apparently spotted at a Walmart store, and first reported by Android Headlines. It’s not clear whether the device was supposed to be available for purchase yet or if this was an accident, but a Reddit user said they were able to purchase one and that it was mixed in with a pile of older sticks without its own price tag. Also: Should you upgrade your Roku TV in 2026? Only if it’s to these streaming stick models According to the Reddit post, the …

People Who Refuse To Wait In Line For Literally Anything Have 11 Rare Traits

People Who Refuse To Wait In Line For Literally Anything Have 11 Rare Traits

Published by Jenni Sidey

Minor inconveniences in our lives can often feel like the end of the world when we’re already exhausted or stretched too thin. When they topple onto existing inner turmoil or build up to larger emotional outbursts, they can harm us more than the big disappointments and struggles. Of course, there’s nuance to someone’s distaste for random inconveniences, but people who refuse to wait in line for literally anything often have certain rare traits. They don’t subject themselves to the pain of inefficiency or inconveniences because they have the mindset, autonomy, and resources to choose a different path in their best interests. People who refuse to wait in line for literally anything have 11 rare traits 1. They don’t tolerate inefficiency MAYA LAB | Shutterstock Efficiency is an important trait that often makes people more productive than others, both in their personal lives and at work. They can be patient with mistakes and minor inconveniences, but when it comes to wasted time or weaponized incompetence around others, they have a much lower threshold for grace. Even if …

Google Chrome finally has the one feature I’ve been waiting for

Google Chrome finally has the one feature I’ve been waiting for

Published by skeptic

Google Chrome is finally making tab chaos a little less painful by rolling out vertical tabs, a long-requested tweak that shifts your open tabs off the top bar and onto the side, where they’re easier to scan through, especially when your browser starts to look like a digital junk drawer. Related These Chrome flags made my browser noticeably faster Stop blaming your PC. These Chrome flags might be the real fix. One less reason to use other Chromium browsers Move over Brave and Vivaldi, Chrome’s back for its lunch money Credit: Google Saying that vertical tabs are almost mandatory to my workflow these days is honestly a bit of an understatement. As a writer, I spend a lot of time researching different parts of an article when I sit down to work, and being able to easily sift through tabs of that information and data is vital to making my job as streamlined as possible. That’s why for the past year or two, I’ve had to resort to using other Chromium browsers like Brave just to …