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Hi from Mars! Wish you were here! These new views of Mars captured by NASA’s Perseverance wouldn’t be out of place on a postcard. Space watchers who have grown accustomed to close-ups of rover tracks and laser-zapped Mars rocks get a much more expansive look at the Red Planet in […]
Trump really misses Twitter but Twitter really doesn’t miss him. In July, former-President Donald Trump announced a class action lawsuit against Big Tech companies – namely Facebook, Google, and Twitter – and its CEOs for, the suit alleges, violating the First Amendment when these outlets banned him from their platform […]
The car of the future may be born of a retrograde past. An employee at Tesla’s Fremont factory is suing the company, alleging ongoing sexual harassment from a manager that went unchecked for months — even after she reported it. The details in the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in California’s Alameda […]
It’s being called the “worst bug impacting the Internet in the last 5 years, at least,” according to Matthew Price, CEO of the web security company Cloudflare. “The single biggest, most critical vulnerability of the last decade,” said cybersecurity firm Tenable CEO Amit Yoran. Price and Yoran are talking about […]
Stephen Colbert would like a word with “science.” The host of The Late Show playfully excoriated humanity’s greatest hope for understanding the natural world when, during Friday’s monologue, he turned his attention to the moon’s so-called “mystery hut.” That’s the shorthand used in at least one report for an unknown […]
If you’re a Succession-head wondering what to watch next after the HBO hit stops dropping its hours of delectable awfulness with the Season 3 finale Sunday, may I recommend Peep Show? The nine-season British sitcom is little known in the U.S. but regarded as one of the best of this […]
I don’t know about you but this week felt like a month. It was one of those weeks that even as the weekend hit you sort of act cautious, as if you’re watching a horror movie and at any moment a jump scare might get you. Sure, the calendar says […]
Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. My shoulders are aching. I’m a little out of breath. I can feel a faint sweat breaking out on my forehead. I’m trying not to sigh loudly, as my partner’s on a work call a […]
Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. “Binge-watching” is a misleading term. A “binge” implies watching a succession of your favorite shows or series is unhealthy. In reality, media experts who research the effects of binge-watching have found there are benefits of […]
There’s nothing like a pandemic to give people time to contemplate the universe’s greatest mysteries. Over the course of the year, uber-rich tourists, including a Star Trek legend, ventured into space. Government and privately owned space travel companies reached new milestones, and scientists continued to make discoveries. Here are eight […]