Kia bets on bribing you with free stuff to secure its piece of the EV market pie

Kia seems to be putting serious work in marketing it’s First Edition EV6, which will be launched in the US in the beginning of 2022. AsCNETreports, the company announced on Thursday thatthe first 1,500 people to preorder aFirst Edition EV6 models will get an extra bonus: a free Apple Watch. According to Kia, the Apple Watch isn’t a random choice. Itwill allow customers to use the Kia Connect suite of services that come as part of the car....

3 min · 496 words · Ryan Rivera

Kickstart your foray into game development with this expert-led training bundle on sale

The eSports industry has grown rapidly with thousands if not millions of interested individuals joining the market in the last couple of years. Companies have invested in creating games that not only entertain, but educate and even market a product as a way to keep up with the times. Nowadays, it’s not rare to meet people who want to pursue a career or a hobby in gaming or game development. If you’re one of those individuals who have a passion for gaming but don’t know where to start, then this bundle may be for you....

2 min · 407 words · Theodore Cooper

Kids are ‘failing’ online learning

Kids are ‘failing’ online learning How bad is the problem? Los Angeles is hardly alone. Elsewhere in California, one San Diego superintendenttold the Los Angeles Timesthat failing grades have more than doubled during the pandemic, to more than 14% of all marks. An Oregon high schooltold The Associated Pressthat failing grades had jumped from 8% of all grades to 38% in October. One Bay Area districttold The Mercury Newsthat they’d seen the number of students with more than one failing grade expand by more than 10 percentage points, to 29%, nearly a third of all students....

4 min · 818 words · Derek Marshall

Kids who head soccer balls are more likely to develop dementia, neurologists say

Kids who head soccer balls are more likely to develop dementia, neurologists say Repetitive impacts Jeff Astle, a member of England’s 1970 World Cup squad, became the first British soccer player confirmed to have died from CTE –classed as an industrial injury. Astle’s family had long claimed it was heading the ball that was to blame. But it was only when England’s 1966 World Cup-winning heroes began to be diagnosed with dementia that the soccer world really took notice....

4 min · 764 words · April Parker

Kik comes back to the BlackBerry, just in time for BBM outage

There may yet be hope for those of you who are still addicted to your BlackBerry devices. You might remember a about a year ago when instant-messaging serviceKikgot the bootfrom BlackBerry and questions came up that had to be answered. At the time, TNW ventured the educated guess that RIM wasn’t too happy with Kik trolling your address book. As time has gone on, Kik has gained popularity among iPhone and even Windows Phone owners, but BlackBerry users have been left out of the fun....

2 min · 381 words · Sharon Young
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