Trump’s Twitter Not Even Allowed to Return in Archival Format for Nerds
Trump's Twitter Not Even Allowed to Return in Archival Format for Nerds
No one wants to return to Twitter more badly than Donald Trump.Read more... Go to Source
Science, Tech and Gadgets
These Headphones Offer Solid Active Noise Cancellation for Those on a Budget
These Headphones Offer Solid Active Noise Cancellation for Those on a Budget
Urbanista isn’t a household name. Founded in Sweden, the company makes low-cost, high-design headphones for folks who don’t want to spend a few hundred dollars on options from Apple, Bose, or Beats. Their latest product, the Miami, is a pair of active noise-canceling headphones with 50-hour battery life and a tempting…Read more... Go to Source
These Mole-Like Critters Lived Under the Feet of Dinosaurs
These Mole-Like Critters Lived Under the Feet of Dinosaurs
Before an asteroid completely changed the course of Earth’s evolutionary trajectory, the world was filled with scaled and feathered dinosaurs, web-winged pterosaurs, and, as a new study describes, precursors to modern mammals that eked out existence in burrows they dug into the Cretaceous soil.Read more... Go to Source
Amazon’s Worker-Crushing Megacycle Is Energizing a Battle
Amazon's Worker-Crushing Megacycle Is Energizing a Battle
Amazon wanted its workforce to break its back for 10 hours straight, four nights a week, hauling boxes. It got what it wished. As a result, its labor pool is growing stronger by the day—just not to its advantage.Read more... Go to Source
Researchers Say Their ‘Brain Glue’ Could Someday Help People With Severe Brain Injuries
Researchers Say Their 'Brain Glue' Could Someday Help People With Severe Brain Injuries
Scientists say they’re one step closer to showing that their experimental hydrogel technology—more plainly known as “brain glue”—can help people with traumatic brain injuries. In a recent study, they found that their brain glue helped prevent long-term damage and tissue loss in the injured brains of rats, while also…Read more... Go to Source
Apple Tightens Its Rules Around Its New Anti-Tracking Tech
Apple Tightens Its Rules Around Its New Anti-Tracking Tech
Apple’s offering a bit more clarity surrounding the anti-tracking tech that’s going to debut this spring. On Wednesday, a company spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that Apple’s so-called App Tracking Transparency (ATT) protocol will crack down on all identifiers an app might use to track you—not just identifiers…Read more... Go to Source
Google I/O 2021 Kicks Off Virtually on May 18
Google I/O 2021 Kicks Off Virtually on May 18
Following Apple’s WWDC announcement and Microsoft’s Build reveal, Google has announced a date for its own developers conference, Google I/O 2021, which will kick off virtually on May 18.Read more... Go to Source
Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste
Experimental 3D Printer Offers a Clever Way to Eliminate Waste
One of the unique challenges of 3D printing is that models that feature structures hanging in mid-air, like the spout of a teapot, also need temporary structures to support the soft extruded plastic until it hardens. This can result in a lot of wasted material, because those supports are just discarded afterwards. A …Read more... Go to Source
An Android App That Promised Free Netflix Shockingly Just Highly Annoying Malware
An Android App That Promised Free Netflix Shockingly Just Highly Annoying Malware
So-called pirating apps have been around for years—and they have likely gained popularity since covid-19 put us all indefinitely on the couch, phone in hand, awaiting a reason (that never comes) to stop streaming. Read more... Go to Source
How to Ensure Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Is Accessible to Everyone
How to Ensure Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Is Accessible to Everyone
As the Biden administration puts the federal government’s muscle behind widespread electrification, one fact has becoming increasingly clear: The electric vehicle revolution is coming. But states have a lot of catching up to do if they want to make sure everyone is included, a new report shows.Read more... Go to Source
UK Launches New Watchdog to Police Big Tech’s Ad Market Monopoly
UK Launches New Watchdog to Police Big Tech's Ad Market Monopoly
The UK government launched a new watchdog agency on Wednesday that will be tasked with keeping an eye on Big Tech companies like Google and Facebook, according to an announcement published online. The stated goal of the new watchdog is to police the “concentration of power among a small number of firms” in the world…Read more... Go to Source
Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
Jeff Bezos Supports Corporate Tax Hike But Conspicuously Fails to Endorse $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, released a statement late Tuesday saying that he generally supports President Joe Biden’s desire to invest in infrastructure, along with a rise in the corporate tax rate. But some of the things Bezos doesn’t support in the statement are conspicuous in their absence.Read more... Go to Source
A New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn
A New Phishing Campaign Sends Malware-Laced Job Offers Through LinkedIn
With unemployment at formidable levels and the economy doing weird, covid-related reversals, I think we can all agree that the job hunt is a pretty hard slog right now. Amidst all that, you know what workers really don’t need? A LinkedIn inbox full of malware. Yeah, they don’t need that at all. Read more... Go to Source
Clubhouse Reportedly Thinks It’s Worth $4 Billion Now
Clubhouse Reportedly Thinks It's Worth $4 Billion Now
Clubhouse, which led a round of investment in January at a reported valuation of around $1 billion, now believes it is worth four times that, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.Read more... Go to Source
SpaceX President Says Starlink Doesn’t Plan to Offer Tiered Pricing
SpaceX President Says Starlink Doesn't Plan to Offer Tiered Pricing
Starlink opened up pre-orders for its service in February for a $99 deposit, but it doesn’t appear that the company plans to offer any kind of tiered plan to folks who were hoping for some options.Read more... Go to Source
Apple, We Know the AirTags Are Coming. Let’s Go Already
Apple, We Know the AirTags Are Coming. Let's Go Already
We know Apple’s AirTags must surely exist, because credible rumors and leaks about them have been trickling into our news feeds for what seems like forever. The latest rumor, however, provides a glimmer of hope that we might see these things in our lifetime.Read more... Go to Source
Signal Is Adding a New Privacy-Focused Payments Feature
Signal Is Adding a New Privacy-Focused Payments Feature
Most of us might be familiar with Signal as the privacy-preserving messaging app of choice, but the company is expanding into a new frontier: payments. Read more... Go to Source
Report: Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies
Report: Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies
A new series of reports from BuzzFeed News shows the wide net cast by shadowy surveillance firm Clearview AI. Individuals at 1,803 public agencies—many of which are police departments—have used its facial recognition software at some point over recent years, according to data reviewed by the news outlet. Read more... Go to Source
Stop Shaming Vaccinated People for Socializing
Stop Shaming Vaccinated People for Socializing
As the U.S. speeds ever closer toward mass vaccination against covid-19, a curious trend has started to emerge on social media and elsewhere: well-intentioned people downplaying the benefits of vaccination, often by arguing that vaccinated people still pose a major transmission risk and that they shouldn’t do things…Read more... Go to Source
There’s Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Saving the World
There's Absolutely Nothing Wrong With Saving the World
There’s one phrase I’ve been using a lot, as I’ve been promoting my young adult space-opera Victories Greater Than Death: “Save all the worlds.” Because I love the idea of a group of kids who are mostly LGBTQIA+ and come from cultures all over the world get to be the ones to help “save all the worlds.” And I love …Read more... Go to Source
What’s the Best Office Chair Under $300?
What's the Best Office Chair Under $300?
So, the vaccines are finally getting into arms. This spring, many Americans will actually be able to get their doses just in time for summer. However, don’t expect things to return to normal just yet. It’s going to take a long time for everyone to get vaccinated, so there’s no guarantee we’ll be back at 100% even by…Read more... Go to Source
Hundreds of Glacial Rivers Are Pouring Into the Belly of Greenland’s Ice
Hundreds of Glacial Rivers Are Pouring Into the Belly of Greenland’s Ice
We use the cliched term “glacial pace” to describe something that moves really slowly. But new research shows that Greenland’s glaciers may actually be moving more rapidly than we thought thanks to rushing rivers on their surface.Read more... Go to Source
Matt Gaetz Reportedly Fought a Revenge Porn Law to Protect His Stash
Matt Gaetz Reportedly Fought a Revenge Porn Law to Protect His Stash
An update on the metastasizing horrors from the ongoing saga of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican reportedly under investigation for sex trafficking: It’s not looking great. Read more... Go to Source
Vietnam Lifts Ban on Boeing 737 Max Aircraft
Vietnam Lifts Ban on Boeing 737 Max Aircraft
The government of Vietnam has lifted a ban on Boeing 737 Max aircraft, according to Reuters, citing Vietnamese state media. The ban on the planes was put in place following two crashes that killed 346 people in 2018 and 2019.Read more... Go to Source
Japan’s Central Bank Launches One-Year Test of Digital Currency
Japan's Central Bank Launches One-Year Test of Digital Currency
Japan’s central bank has started trials of a new digital currency in an effort to experiment with how it might be used, the Bank of Japan announced on Monday. The announcement comes after the Chinese government revealed it was doing something very similar with a digital yuan in early March.Read more... Go to Source
Clubhouse Is Partnering With Stripe To Offer Direct Payments, and Creators Will Get 100% of the Profits
Clubhouse Is Partnering With Stripe To Offer Direct Payments, and Creators Will Get 100% of the Profits
The invite-only audio chat app Clubhouse is sweetening the deal for creators by offering a direct payment option that would allow them to reap 100% of the rewards.Read more... Go to Source
Is Yahoo Answers Dying? Yes, Son, Yes It Is
Is Yahoo Answers Dying? Yes, Son, Yes It Is
Yahoo announced on Monday that it will soon send its Answers service to that great trash bin in the sky, bringing about 15 years’ worth of absurd, typo-ridden questioning and equally irreverent answering to an end. Read more... Go to Source
Amazon Can’t Just Change Its Rules to Squash Activism, NLRB Finding Suggests
Amazon Can’t Just Change Its Rules to Squash Activism, NLRB Finding Suggests
The laundry list of fired organizers at Amazon has grown suspiciously lengthy, and the National Labor Relations Board has noticed.Read more... Go to Source
Marvel Secrets in the New Loki Trailer: The Avengers, Time-Keepers, and More
Marvel Secrets in the New Loki Trailer: The Avengers, Time-Keepers, and More
We might currently be in the midst of one Marvel television project in Disney+’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, but the House of Ideas wanted to remind us all of what’s on the horizon today. Our latest look at Loki, the mind-bending spinoff that throws the god of tricks into a temporal mess of his own making,…Read more... Go to Source
This Soap Bottle Is Made of Soap and Also Dispenses Soap
This Soap Bottle Is Made of Soap and Also Dispenses Soap
I’m always trying to reduce the amount of plastic I throw away, and this new Kickstarter project’s clever solution, which uses soap to create a multi-purpose, zero-waste container, has me intrigued. Read more... Go to Source