It’s a familiar story. A person in a position of power, usually a white man, is subject to social or professional sanction after someone draws attention to old, offensive comments on social media that few people noticed at the time. What makes the latest case unusual is that the white man is the president and…
On tech Twitter last Thursday, all eyes were on 👁👄👁. The string of emoji is sometimes used to connote the phrase “it is what it is,” a hieroglyphic shrug of internet nihilism. But as it began to appear in tech workers’ bios last week, rumors spread. Was it an app? The next Clubhouse? A viral…
The future of gaming lives inside metal cages, if you believe some of the biggest gaming companies out there. Piled on hardware racks, blinking with little green lights, it’s calculated inside stacked-together computers and pumped out of a remote server through big underground tubes. It is distributed across the globe—Shanghai, London, Prague, Virginia—from nondescript, city…
Be honest—have you ever read a privacy disclosure? Even once? Facebook’s data privacy policy is more than 4,000 words. It contains dozens of links to hundreds of pages of complex terms and agreements. Even if you had the time to read it, you’d need a law degree and a data science background to understand which…
A few months ago, NASA unveiled its next-generation space suit that will be worn by astronauts when they return to the moon in 2024 as part of the agency’s plan to establish a permanent human presence on the lunar surface. The Extravehicular Mobility Unit—or xEMU—is NASA’s first major upgrade to its space suit in nearly…
While we’ve all been locked inside, creatures have been reclaiming the empty streets. Earlier this month, animal control officers captured a mountain lion in downtown San Francisco. In Italy and Spain, the wild boar have moved in. OG fliers like geese are staking claim to airports. Urban rats are boldly foraging during the day and…
We’ve heard many rumors about Apple’s new augmented reality headset, referred to as Apple Glasses, which are expected to be announced at some point in 2022. While the company won’t give us details about their upcoming projects, developer and designer Jordan Singer has created this new concept that imagines the Apple Glasses user interface inspired…
Free PS4 PlayStation Plus Games For July 2020 Revealed – GameSpot
MacOS Big Sur may be a worthwhile upgrade if you love to marathon TV shows. As 9to5Mac reports, users have discovered that Safari in Big Sur will play Netflix videos in 4K with HDR, whether you’re using Dolby Vision or HDR10. You won’t have to switch to another browser just to see more than a…