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Qualcomm Just Bought a Chip Startup Almost Certainly to Piss Off Apple
If you’re scratching your head wondering what the hell a “Nuvia” is, why you should care that Qualcomm dropped $1.4 billion to own it, and what that has to do with Apple, buckle up.Read more...
Facebook Pressed to Stop Ignoring la Desinformación en Español
Civil liberties advocates are working to raise awareness of Facebook’s apparent disinterest in moderating Spanish-language posts—with at least the same meandering enforcement it applies towards English-speaking users.
A Hacker Just Stole $5.7 Million From Social Token Startup Roll
Over the weekend, hackers stole millions of dollars in crypto from Roll, a social currency startup that allows so-called “creatives” to launch and manage their own Ethereum blockchain-based money systems.Read more...
Oh Great, Now Florida Has a Mosquito That Can Carry Yellow Fever
Scientists in Florida have confirmed that there’s a new breed of mosquito in town that can carry a very dangerous set of diseases, including yellow fever. And while it’s only in two counties in the state right now, a new paper indicates that its range could spread across the Sunshine State.Read more...
Delete Most of Your Apps
The arrival of iOS 14 last year came with a new feature that, at first glance, seems handy but is actually a symptom of a deeper sickness: We all have far too many apps—many of which are violating your privacy on a regular basis.
This Open-Source Security Key Helps You Ditch Software Authenticators
Accidentally deleting your Google Authenticator app is a nightmare. The app, which generates one-time codes for many websites, is usually your key to many major email services, including Gmail, domain name services like Namecheap, and even banking services. If you forget to move these codes over to a new phone when…Read more...
Elon's Doing Another Bit
If you want a picture of the future of art, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.Read more...
Russian Film Plans Mean NASA Astronaut Could Spend an Entire Year in Space
Mark Vande Hei is currently scheduled to spend six months aboard the International Space Station, but the potential arrival of a Russian film crew means he’d have to give up his return seat home, requiring the veteran NASA astronaut to spend an entire year in space.
Dropbox Passwords Rolls Out Free Version Just as LastPass Limits Free Users
Just as LastPass nerfs the free tier of its popular password manager, Dropbox has swooped in with a free version of its own password app—but there’s a bit of a catch.Read more...
Sony's New $2,000 E-Mount Lens Is Cutting-Edge Glass for Pros
In just over a decade, Sony has transformed its E-mount lenses from a small collection of glass into one its biggest strengths, and today Sony is announcing its 60th E-mount lens: the new FE f/1.2 50mm G Master prime lens.
Marshall's First Wireless Earbuds Have More Style Than Substance
There are few brands as synonymous with rock and roll as Marshall, whose amps are as iconic as a Fender guitar. The company has parlayed its recognizable name into a line of consumer audio goods, including headphones and wireless speakers, but the Mode II is its first pair of truly wireless earbuds. The buds sound…Read more...
Chevron Faces an FTC Complaint Over Greenwashing
There may be trouble ahead for companies who claim to be helping the planet while continuing to produce fossil fuels. A coalition of green groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission on Monday alleging that Chevron is misleading the public in its claims that it is working to reduce greenhouse gas…Read more...
Racist Zoning Practices Are So Prevalent, ‘You Can Even See It in the Flood Data’
There’s no question that flooding is becoming worse due to the climate crisis pushing up our sea levels and making heavy downpours more common. But the risk doesn’t affect us all equally. A report released by the real estate brokerage firm Redfin this week shows that formerly redlined areas are more vulnerable to the…Read more...
Deadly Super Yeast Found in the Wild for the First Time
A frightening superbug yeast that’s killing people in hospitals can also survive just fine outside of them, according to a new study out Tuesday. For the first time, researchers say they’ve discovered multidrug-resistant strains of the fungus Candida auris in a natural environment, in the remote wetlands of India.…Read more...
Intel Officially Announces Its 11th-Gen CPUs, Giving Us Reasons to Actually Be Excited
Today, Intel finally took the wraps off all the details about its upcoming 11th-gen Rocket Lake processors. While the announcement wasn’t a surprise—so much information is out there in the wild already, and some consumers and reviewers have even gotten their hands on a chip or two well before the official launch…Read more...
Apple Patent Hopes We’ll All Show Feet in AR
One thing that most Big Tech companies working on smart glasses haven’t figure out yet is how to effectively interact with an augmented reality environment. Apple is heavily rumored to be working on its own pair of AR glasses and apparently considered vibrating haptic socks to tackle this problem.Read more...
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Is a Show to Dissect, But in a Different Way From WandaVision
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has always trained fans to look ahead. To uncover the mysteries. Piece together the connections. Nowhere has that been more evident than in WandaVision, Marvel’s first Disney+ TV series. Fan speculation and excitement for WandaVision was so feverish, in fact, it’s almost a shock that the…Read more...
Nokia Cutting 10,000 Jobs While Planning to Double Down on 5G
With investments into next-gen communications continuing to ramp up, Nokia has decided to cut up to 10,000 jobs over the next two years to help cut costs and reinvest resources into 5G.Read more...
Charles Steinmetz's Predictions About 2021 From the Year 1921 Were Amazingly Accurate
Back in 1921, Dr. Charles P. Steinmetz, the pioneering inventor and mathematician, was published in a Massachusetts newspaper predicting what the fantastical world of 2021 would look like. Steinmetz made some amazingly accurate predictions about things like air conditioning, cooking, electric bicycles, and home…Read more...
Google's New Nest Hub Tracks Your Sleep From Your Nightstand, No Wearables Required
Google hasn’t updated its smart display, the Google Home Hub, in more than two years, but today the company announced a brand new Nest Hub. While the updated version may look identical to its predecessor, Google makes up for it a fresh feature: the ability to track your sleep without requiring you to strap a band to…Read more...
12 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do in Spotify
Spotify has been streaming music since 2008, and it’s changed a lot in that time. New features are constantly added to its apps and the platform as a whole. Just in case there are still some tricks and tools that you haven’t yet spotted, these are some of our favorites—some recently added, and some that have been…Read more...
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Encrypted Messaging App Signal Goes Down in China
Signal, the popular encrypted messaging app, stopped working in China on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. The app is still available in the Apple App Store in China, according to Reuters, but it’s not clear how much longer that might last.
This Machine Creates 3D Objects in Seconds
When we think of 3D printing we usually think of a little robot that squirts out endless lines of plastic onto a surface. But vacuum forming—smoothing a sheet of thin plastic over an object to make a hollow copy—has been around much longer and is the premise behind Myyard’s Formart 2.Read more...
Apparently the Pentagon Is Thinking of Giving Jetpacks a Try
If you need further proof that we are living in a literal science fiction movie right now, look no further than the fact that the U.S. Defense Department is thinking about strapping jetpacks onto its special forces cadres. Well, actually the term they are using is “portable personal air mobility system,” but you get…Read more...
California Passes New Regulation Banning 'Dark Patterns' Under Landmark Privacy Law
New regulations were approved under California’s Consumer Privacy Act on Monday that will prohibit the use of so-called dark patterns — tricks deployed by websites or apps that seek to frustrate or bamboozle users into doing things they wouldn’t normally do.Read more...
Amazon Prime Video Is Testing a Shuffle Feature Now, Too
Amazon’s streaming service is currently testing a shuffle tool that could help switch up your binge-watching routine.Read more...
Astronomers Spotted a Black Hole Casually Gliding Through Space
Some 230 million light-years from Earth, there’s a black hole going places. These extraordinarily dense objects are usually found sitting at the center of a galaxy violently gobbling up matter, so it was a surprise when astronomers spotted this one moving out of step with its resident galaxy.
Facebook and News Corp Have Reached a Three Year News Distribution Deal
After temporarily disabling Australian news organizations’ ability to share news links in February, Facebook announced on Monday that it had reached a licensing agreement with the news giant News Corp.Read more...
The AstraZeneca Vaccine Can't Catch a Break
The covid-19 vaccine jointly developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University is once again running into trouble. On Monday, Germany, France, and Italy became the latest countries to suspend their rollout of the vaccine over concerns that it may increase the risk of blood clots. However, many experts and regulators say…Read more...
Researchers Are Working on a Virtual Phone Virus That 'Mimics' the Spread of Covid-19
In an effort to assist the evolving science of contact tracing, researchers have created a virtual phone virus that is meant to “mimic” the spread of Covid-19. By “infecting” phones within a controlled environment, the researchers hope to gain a better understanding of the trajectory of viruses as they proliferate…Read more...
Disney+ Series Earth Moods Is Just What I've Been Looking For
For those of us who turn to nature sounds when we’ve got the weirds, a new Disney+ series looks like it may fit the bill.
Why Rainbows Look Different in Hawaii
Rain and sunlight are the key ingredients of rainbows, but many other environmental factors are required to consistently pull off this visual trick, as new research shows.
Indicted CEO of Encrypted Phone Firm Says Drug Charges Are Attack on the 'Right to Privacy'
Sky Global CEO Jean-Francois Eap, who the Department of Justice indicted last week for his alleged role in providing encryption tech to international drug cartels, has shot back that the government is targeting him to destroy the “fundamental right to privacy.”
Zoom Escaper Is a Soundboard Designed to 'Self-Sabotage' Your Video Meetings
After a year of working from home, many of us are sick and tired of endless video meetings. Now we have an excuse to get out of these conference calls with a new tool called Zoom Escaper.
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If Alex Cranz were a participant in this post, she would almost certainly include a photo of the “bye bitch” vape she has or any number of GIFs that are surely criminal in at least half a dozen states at whoever was being roasted. Unfortunately for all of us, after five years, she is not a roaster but the roastee.…Read more...
The NFT Art Heists May Have Begun
Nifty Gateway—an NFT marketplace that was bought out by the Winklevoss twins back in 2019—announced on Monday morning some of its users were swept up in a small-scale hack that saw their accounts and credit cards compromised.Read more...
‘Invisible’ Deep-Sea Bacteria Cause Researchers to Rethink Human Immune Systems
Researchers have found microbes in the deep sea that are completely invisible to the human immune system, a somewhat unnerving discovery that suggests our bodies’ seemingly universal ability to recognize bacteria isn’t so all-inclusive.Read more...
13 WandaVision Facts Magically Revealed in Its Making-of Documentary
With a week off between brand new Marvel shows, what’s a fan to do? Thankfully, Disney+ delivered with a brand new one-hour special called Marvel Studios Assembled: The Making of WandaVision, which dives into how the entire show was made. Even though it’s relatively short, it’s jam-packed with cool facts and tidbits.…Read more...
Million-Year-Old Plants Show Greenland Was Once Ice-Free
Jars of dirt taken from a Cold War-era military caper and lost in a freezer for decades could hold crucial new information about climate change and sea level rise. A study published on Monday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists says that plant fossils found in a sample of dirt collected from a mile…Read more...
Kids Just Can't Stop Eating These Magnets
Recent research provides a clear example of the dangers of deregulation. The study found that poison center cells involving children swallowing high-powered magnets went up substantially after 2017 in the U.S., following the reversal of a ban on these products enacted years earlier.Read more...
Maybe There's Hope for Wear OS Yet
There are a lot of reasons why Google’s Wear OS as a smartwatch platform is so frustrating. It lacks the advanced health features you see from other wearables makers, nearly all the available watches are still reliant on outdated chips, and historically, Google hasn’t been the best at delivering timely updates. Recent…Read more...
Cricut Now Wants Users to Pay Extra for Unlimited Use of the Cutting Machines They Already Own
Over the weekend, people who own Cricut’s crafting machines—which are printer-like devices that can precisely slice up documents—learned of an upcoming update that will limit how often they can use the machines they’ve paid for. The company, whose cheapest machine is $180, will now start charging users a monthly…Read more...
Beijing Is Choking on Bright Yellow Dust
Beijing is currently hidden under a thick, yellow blanket of noxious smog. The dust originated in a Gobi Desert sandstorm, which has killed at least six people in Mongolia. Now, northwest winds have blown the dust through across Inner Mongolia into the Chinese provinces of Gansu, Shanxi, and Hebei.
Zack Snyder's Grand Embellishments Make Justice League a Better, Stranger Thing
For years, fans of director Zack Snyder have wondered, often to the point of questionable fervor, what could’ve happened in an alternate world where he got to finish 2017's Justice League. Four years and tens of millions of dollars later, Warner Bros. has opened a Pandora’s box to place us in that reality—and it turns…Read more...
ISS Ditches 2.9-Ton Pallet of Batteries, Creating Its Most Massive Piece of Space Trash
Weighing 2.9 tons and traveling 4.8 miles per second, this heap of old batteries is now the heaviest single piece of garbage to be jettisoned from the International Space Station.Read more...
Mom Allegedly Harassed Daughter's Cheerleading Team 'Rivals' With Deepfakes Depicting Them Drinking, Nude
A Pennsylvania woman allegedly released doctored photos and videos of her teenage daughter’s cheerleading rivals naked, drinking, or smoking in a desperate bid to get the girls booted off the team. She now faces multiple charges of cyber harassment of a child.
Texas Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Penalize Businesses That ‘Boycott’ Fossil Fuels
Don’t worry, helpless fossil fuel companies: Texas is coming to your rescue. Four Republican state senators introduced a bill last week that would prevent the state from doing business with any companies that “boycott” the oil and gas industry.
Life Is Already Too Stressful, Let a Very Patient Lego Robot Build a House of Cards for You
It’s inevitable that one day all of us will see our jobs taken over by automatons—the real question is whether we’ll be replaced by robots, or some elaborate and surprisingly capable Lego creation like Arthur Sacek created to build perfectly stacked structures made of playing cards.Read more...
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