Hello again. Are you awaiting the Second Wave or simply ignoring the continuation of the first one? Just keep wearing those masks! The Plain View“Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?” is what King Henry II reputedly said in the year 1170, referring to Thomas Becket. His knights took the hint, and the Archbishop…
Until 2020, the world had never seen a holiday go viral. Nearly overnight, the business world—from Apple to ZocDoc—higher education, and even several NFL teams moved from, in some cases, complete ignorance to full recognition of Juneteenth. Today’s holiday is all the rage across America and beyond.The viral magic of Juneteenth starts with its name.…
Early on in the Covid-19 pandemic, the San Francisco Bay Area was one of the hotspots. The region moved quickly into containment mode: businesses shut, travel was restricted, city officials issued orders to stay home. And by most measures, it seemed to work: An outbreak that would overwhelm local hospitals never materialized. But rather than…
Apple’s expected to make big changes on the insides of its computers. Óscar Gutiérrez/CNET People often obsess over the designs of Apple’s products: Their smooth glass screens, the aluminum and stainless steel edges, and the colorful designs. But one of Apple’s most attention-grabbing design changes may be on the inside rather than the outside. Apple…
At a speech at the US Military Academy last weekend, President Donald Trump appeared lethargic and occasionally slurred words. He seemed to have difficulty lifting a glass of water to his lips, and apparently shuffled slowly down a ramp leading away from his dais.The images caught fire on social media and in the press. What…
Image: AmazonPick up a Fire TV device or an Amazon Fire tablet, and the on-board operating system is only loosely based on Android: You’re actually dealing with a modified OS, cut off from Google’s apps and services, but it’s not particularly clear exactly what that means for your choice of apps and options. Allow us…
In recent weeks, social media executives have jumped in to pledge their support for the protest movement that emerged in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. In a June 1 Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg wrote about the need to fight for racial justice and noted, “One of the areas Priscilla and…
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Simone Browne is a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Browne studies how surveillance technologies have objectified, categorized, and repressed black people, from the panoptic slave ships of the Middle Passage to modern policing tools deployed against protesters. Amid recent police shootings…
Microsoft’s first stab at a portable Windows tablet, the Surface Go, revealed some of the limitations of the operating system on such a small-size device. The initial effort was promising, but battery life was mediocre, performance lagged, and software quirks had us searching for a workaround.The new Surface Go 2 addresses most, though not all,…
