In the iPhone age, your smartphone home screen can be a geopolitical battleground. Earlier this month, 20 Indian soldiers died in a skirmish with Chinese troops on the countries’ contested Himalayan border. Monday, India struck a blow in the digital realm of its own citizens’ mobile devices.The country’s Ministry of Information Technology banned 59 mobile…
July 4th is approaching, the weather is getting hot, and people are flocking outdoors. The pandemic is far from over, so it’s important to wear a face mask and stay 6 feet apart.A good way to enjoy the summer and stay safe is to bike, whether it’s around the city or on rural trails. Camping…
Drive-ins don’t usually have Rite Aids. Or post offices. They certainly don’t open with a kid in a T-shirt reading a message off their phone advising everyone to “wear a mask when leaving your car.” This place, though, isn’t a typical drive-in. It’s the parking lot of the Bel Aire Diner in Astoria, Queens, converted…
The basic idea behind all nuclear power plants is the same: Convert the heat created by nuclear fission into electricity. There are several ways to do this, but in each case it involves a delicate balancing act between safety and efficiency. A nuclear reactor works best when the core is really hot, but if it…
Mac users are now exposed to a new “EvilQuest” ransomware that encrypts files and causes multiple issues to the operating system. Malwarebytes has analyzed the ransomware today, which is being distributed through macOS pirate apps. The malicious code was first found in a pirate copy of the Little Snitch app available on a Russian forum…
In Dr. Pimple Popper’s latest Instagram video, she helps a patient with a massive cyst on her back.The cyst is so smooth and bulges so far out you can’t miss it.Dr. Pimple Popper slices it open and squeezes the cyst, which she describes as lucky, until it’s totally empty.Are you feeling lucky? It doesn’t matter,…
Dr. Disrespect has finally broken his silence on his recent Twitch ban, but his brief statement only … [+] makes things more confusing. (Photo by Michael Tullberg/Getty Images) Getty Images See updates below. [Original story 6/27/2020] It’s been a weird week for the video game community. And I mean weirder than a normal week, which…
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…
