We love a good photo hunt, and we love it even more when such a hunt can actually be helpful for scientific research. That’s the premise of the “Walrus from Space” project. This partnership between the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS) turns to internet people like […]
Day: October 16, 2021
WhatsApp rolls out encryption for chats backed up in the cloud
WhatsApp is the mobile messaging backbone of much of the global population, and all of its users just got an added layer of privacy protection. On the WhatsApp blog, the Facebook-owned messaging app confirmed that end-to-end encryption for backed up chats in the cloud will roll out “slowly” to all […]
The first ‘Black Adam’ clip is a brief, brutal glimpse at Dwayne Johnson’s DC debut
Twitch says user passwords weren’t compromised in huge data leak
Earlier in October, pretty much the entirety of Twitch was hacked and leaked onto the internet. Apparently, passwords weren’t included, though. That’s what Twitch says, anyway. The streaming site issued an update on Friday in the aftermath of the big hack, saying that user passwords, credit cards, and banking info […]
Meet the true crime podcaster making your guilty pleasure more ethical
Grab your magnifying glass and get ready to investigate as Mashable uncovers Big/Little Mysteries. True crime is one of the most popular genres ever. It’s also going through a huge identity crisis. In podcasting especially, the genre is almost exclusively made by women, for women (mostly). Many wildly popular true […]
Tesla wipes Cybertruck details from its website following delay into 2022
NASA and ESA tech geeks posted an ‘unboxing’ of the Hubble telescope’s successor
‘Squid Game’ and the ‘untranslatable’: The debate around subtitles explained
This post was originally published in The Conversation. There is no question that Squid Game has become a global sensation. Since its release, the nine-episode survival drama has topped Netflix’s charts in 90 countries and is poised to become the most-watched show in Netflix history. As the global popularity of […]
Perfumed hand sanitizer is the worst, so let’s stop using it.
At some point last year, amidst the coronavirus pandemic, people began Googling a curious question: Why does hand sanitizer smell bad? What those poor souls learned was that an initial shortage of ethyl alcohol hand sanitizer gave way to a glut of foul-smelling goo. As brands rushed to meet consumer […]
Gaping hole opened up in ‘Last Ice Area’ of the Arctic, NASA images show
The oldest, thickest, and toughest Arctic sea ice is weakening. Arctic sea ice has starkly declined over the last 40 years, though polar scientists believed a region dubbed the “Last Ice Area” was largely resistant to melting as the planet warmed. Yet new research published in the scientific journal Geophysical […]