A social messaging app called ToTok has been surging in popularity around the world in recent weeks. If you happen to be one of the hundreds of thousands of users who downloaded it you should delete the app from your phone immediately.United States intelligence officials, speaking to the New York Times Sunday, warned that ToTok…
Hear the phrase “gay culture” and you’ll likely think of gay male culture, and the elements of it that’ve been normalized and celebrated. That’s been the way of things for decades now. From Brokeback Mountain’s Oscar wins to Queer Eye, gay male culture has historically been given a louder and prouder platform than any other…
There may only be nine days left in the year, but man, 2019 really is doing everything it can to cram a lot into its sunset. Like what? Well, a new Star Wars movie hit theaters and disappointed critics, Scotland asked for independence from the UK again, and Wakanda was finally removed from the US’s…
Ends of eras can be bittersweet. Back at the opening of 2010s, there was much optimism about new transportation technology—how it might, say, make it easier to abandon personal cars in favor of “sharing economy” solutions. This week, the Daimler- and BMW-owned service Share Now announced it would depart from the US, the latest sign…
Kenneth Libbrecht is that rare person who, in the middle of winter, gleefully leaves Southern California for a place like Fairbanks, Alaska, where wintertime temperatures rarely rise above freezing. There, he dons a parka and sits in a field with a camera and a piece of foam board, waiting for snow.Specifically, he seeks the sparkliest,…
All told, 2019 was a strong, strange year for comics. The past 12 months featured some of the best indie titles in recent memory, yet the output of mainstream outfits like Marvel, DC, and Image can best be described as “mediocre, with a few high points.” Considering the strongest work in the medium didn’t come…
The only thing I dislike about the Beats Solo Pro—the company’s new noise-canceling on-ear headphones—is how they require a lightning cable to charge.That’s a big deal, not because this Android user keeps forgetting the proprietary cable, but because it’s a critique that would have been buried in most other Beats reviews I’ve ever written.Early Beats…
Even if you’ve been with Firefox since the very beginning—2002, to be precise—there are always new tricks and features to discover inside Mozilla’s browser, which continues to grow and evolve.These are our favorite Firefox productivity tweaks and hacks to help you work faster and more efficiently. If you’re heavy into Apple’s ecosystem, try our guide…
At first, you didn’t even need a pickax. The earliest prospectors of the California gold rush ventured into the Sierra foothills as solo travelers, sloshing through streams in search of nuggets dislodged by the current. That, at least, is the prevailing image: The individual renegade who headed west to strike it rich by his own…
00:00 It’s proven that workplace flexibility 00:02 boosts morale, productivity, and retention. 00:06 But there may be a surprising added benefit 00:08 to a remote work policy shift. 00:10 Improved cyber security. 00:13 In the U.S., companies shell out an average of 00:16 8.2 million dollars a year dealing with cyber attacks. 00:20 In 2018,…
