The Covid-19 pandemic has provided boundless opportunities for scammers since January at least. But a group of fraudsters known as Scattered Canary has reached new depths, ripping off state unemployment systems for millions of dollars just as funds are running dangerously low.It’s not all bad news, though. For the last several months, the FBI had…
Jupiter has one of the most bizarre atmospheres in the entire solar system. Gas giants like Jupiter are believed to have some kind of semi-solid core, but are mostly made of gas like hydrogen, helium, and ammonia. The planet is also the fastest spinning orb in the solar system, which creates a lot of turbulence…
Skip Article Header. Skip to: Start of Article. The recent Tomb Raider proved that videogames could be turned into good films. Photograph: Graham Bartholomew/Warner Bros.Movies based on videogames have a notoriously bad track record, but fantasy author Erin Lindsey says that the recent Tomb Raider reboot, while hardly original, was surprisingly well done. “They do…
The doctor looked in my ears, shined a light in my eyes and mouth, and listened to my heart and lungs with his stethoscope, before ending the exam with this: “Turn your head and cough, sir.” I did what I was told, but the whole experience felt absurd. This wasn’t a physical I’d scheduled or…
How well a product works has always been a key to its success—or failure. There is no shortage of tech products that have, despite their buildup, eventually lost consumers because they failed to work as well as expected. There was Apple’s Newton, the Samsung Galaxy Fold more recently, and let’s not forget Juicero, a juicer…
This story originally appeared in High Country News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Lucinda Charleston’s children reminded her that she wasn’t young anymore. But despite their worry, she assembled an emergency public health team to tackle the Navajo Nation’s first coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic hit Chilchinbeto, a small town in the northeast corner…
Now that we’re all spending so much time indoors, many of us are looking to upgrade our home spaces. Whether you’re tired of vacuuming, have discovered the joy of one-pot meals, or recently realized your thermostat isn’t exactly the smartest tool in the shed, many of the biggest tech companies are offering deals on some…
There are hundreds of Memorial Day sales out there, which can make shopping the first sale of the summer feel less like a handy way to save money and more like a chore. If you’re scrolling through stores trying to find the best discounts and deals, fear not. We’ve rounded them up below. If you’re…
Chances are you’re one of the 1.5 billion or so people using Gmail, but many of us just dive in and out of our inboxes without taking time to explore some of its extra features and functions—some of which are designed to make us safer and protect our privacy.Under the hood, Gmail has a number…
Over the years, Apple has made it prohibitively difficult to jailbreak iOS, which lets you install whatever software you want want on the normally locked-down devices. But on Saturday, the jailbreaking team Unc0ver released a tool that will jailbreak all versions of iOS from 11 to the 13.5. It’s been years since jailbreak has been…
