Unless you or someone you know has contracted Covid-19, you’re likely just being exposed to the major coronavirus news: the vaccine trials, the updated infection prevention measures, the rising death toll. Smaller, more personal news about the pandemic tends to get drowned out on the open internet. To combat this, people who have tested positive…
Comment sections have long acted like the wiry garbage cans of news websites, collecting the worst and slimiest of human thought. Thoughtful reactions get mixed in with off-topic offal, personal attacks, and the enticing suggestions to “learn how to make over $7,000 a month by working from home online!” (So goes the old adage: never…
Rich countries have often pressed for an advantage in procuring vaccines, and that pattern of behavior is playing out again today. Recently, the US stepped back from a global effort to ensure equitable access to Covid-19 immunization; while well-off nations such as Britain, France, and Canada (to name a few) have put in preorders for…
Physicists built the Large Hadron Collider to study the inner workings of the universe. Inside a 27-kilometer underground ring straddling the French-Swiss border, the machine smashes protons together at nearly the speed of light to produce—fleetingly—the smallest constituent building blocks of nature. Sifting through snapshots of these collisions, LHC researchers look for new particles and…
It’s almost next-gen console season. It’s been a while since we’ve had one of those, hasn’t it? The Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro were more like a half-step jump than the full generational leap we’re about to see. The Xbox Series X (and its smaller, cuter Series S sibling) are Microsoft’s entries into…
If you are the cofounders of Instagram, what do you do as your big second act after leaving Facebook? Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger say they aren’t yet sure, but in the interim, they have been spurred to action by our desperate need for clear information during the novel coronavirus crisis. It’s called rt.live, a…
This story is adapted from Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis, by Emily Willingham.For humans and other vertebrates, the literal response to the question of what makes a penis is that it consists, to varying degrees, of connective tissue, spongy swellable tissue, muscles, and a blood supply. And it’s pretty straightforward to see many…
Home News Gaming (Image credit: Microsoft/Sony) After months of breathless speculation, you can finally pre-order the PS5 and the Xbox Series X. Or, at least, you would be able to, if you could make heads or tails of the pre-order process.For those who haven’t followed the whole debacle, the PS5 pre-order process went so poorly…
For the first time in more than 20 years since Apple began its operations in India, the iPhone-maker has started selling its products directly to consumers in the world’s second largest smartphone market. Apple launched its online store in India on Wednesday, which in addition to offering nearly the entire line-up of its products, also…
Image: NintendoWithout so much as a Direct or even a press release, Nintendo has listed a new Kirby game on the company’s website: Kirby Fighters 2.The original Kirby Fighters began life as part of 2014’s Kirby: Triple Deluxe, before being beefed up as a standalone product for the 3DS eShop called Kirby Fighters Deluxe. This…
