Technology

Why It’s So Hard to Be a Working Mom. Even at Facebook.

There is no doubt that being a working mom is difficult. Taking care of kids is a full-time job all on its own. Adding on ...

SpaceX’s Starship, Meant for Mars, Prepares for a First Hop

Elon Musk predicts a crewed mission to Mars in 2029 In 2016, Musk said that a “meaningful number of people” could ...

The FDA Approved its First Cannabis Drug. What Next?

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration approved the drug, now known as Epidiolex, for sale in the US. It will likely be ...

Dark Phoenix Trailer Here to Remind You X-Men Still a Thing

X-Men: Dark Phoenix has been named the biggest box office flop of 2019. The superhero outing, which starred the likes of Game ...

Digital IDs Are More Dangerous Than You Think

Drawbacks Along with Convenience Moreover, citizen access to the data collected on them, its uses, and their own ...

Knock Around a Goat Carcass With These Buzkashi Players

Buzkashi (Pashto/Persian: ?????, lit. ‘goat pulling’) is a traditional Central Asian sport in which horse-mounted ...

Will Smith Is on TikTok Now

Not a week after fellow celeb Reese Witherspoon got on the app, the Fresh Prince has officially joined TikTok. In his first ...

5 of the Best Demos of Projectile Motion and Its Quirks

Examples of Projectile Motion Firing a Canon. When a cannonball is fired from a cannon, it does not move along a straight ...

How to Make a Less Toxic, More Sustainable Surfboard

5 Eco-Friendly Surfboard Brands Making Waves. February 21, 2019 March 16, 2019 By Olivia Burton. … Spooked Kooks. A ...

Hundreds of Millions of PC Components Still Have Hackable Firmware

Firmware Attacks Provide Hackers With Multiple Opportunities If a hacker can breach the firmware level of a computer or ...

Bugs in Mobile Credit Card Readers Could Expose Buyers

Thousands of credit and debit card readers the sort found in shops and restaurants will have to be reprogrammed after it ...

How Self-Driving Has Changed Since Uber’s Crash and More Car News

Overall, autonomous vehicles (AVs) were involved in more crashes: 9.1 crashes per million miles traveled, compared to 4.1 for ...

Why Net Neutrality Advocates Remain Optimistic

SaveTheInternet.com argues that net neutrality puts everyone on equal terms, which helps drive innovation. They claim it is a ...

Slime Molds Remember – But Do They Learn?

Most importantly, slime molds can be taught new tricks; depending on the species, they may not like caffeine, salt or strong ...

A Guide to Using Apple Watch’s Heart Rate Features, Including ECG

Take an ECG Make sure that your Apple Watch is snug and on the wrist that you selected in the Apple Watch app. … Open ...

25 Last-Minute Father’s Day Gifts on Sale Now

45 Last-Minute Gifts That Will Arrive by Father’s Day Rollga Foam Roller. … Zulay 32-Inch Extendable Stainless ...

How the Videogame Aesthetic Flows Into All of Culture

Video games show that people have more in common even though they have been brought up in different cultures. It brings ...

Some US Cities Are Moving Into Real-Time Facial Surveillance

That’s likely to continue, because face recognition is unregulated in most of the US, as there’s no federal law ...

Creepy or Not, Face Scans Are Speeding up Airport Security

In 2004, U.S. airports began screening the faces and fingers of passengers flying into the country. DHS now uses facial ...

The Robots Want to Steal (the Boring Parts of) Your Job

A recent study predicts automation will eliminate 73 million jobs by 2030.

How Vikings Went Into a Trancelike Rage Before Battle

One of the more hotly contested hypotheses is that the berserkers ingested a hallucinogenic mushroom (Amanita muscaria), ...

NASA Is Ready to Get Down to Space Business, and More News

Moon 2024. In the half-century since people visited the Moon, NASA has continued to push the boundaries of knowledge to ...

NASA Needs to Out-Crazy Elon Musk

Founder Elon Musk is also creating and testing a Starship system for lunar landings and, he hopes, future crewed Mars ...

Captain Marvel Beat Its Own Box Office Projections

The film grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the first female-led superhero film to pass the billion-dollar mark. ...

What Happened in the Dark: Puerto Rico’s Year of Fighting for Power

“The power grid has suffered a massive island-wide blackout, potentially caused by a circuit breaker failure at the ...

How to Lock Down What Websites Can Access on Your Computer

Open the menu, click System Preferences, and then Parental Controls. Select the new user account to set up restrictions. Click ...

Ebola Is Now Curable. Here’s How the New Treatments Work

Therapeutics. There are currently two treatments* approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat EVD caused ...

What Happens to Uber After Its IPO?

Uber’s IPO was one of the most highly anticipated of the year, and the company was valued as high as $120 billion by ...

The Android 10 Privacy and Security Upgrades You Should Know About

Android 10 adds support for the Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) and Wi-Fi Enhanced Open security standards to provide better ...

Sea Levels Are Rising. Time to Build … Floating Cities?

the world’s first floating city gets the green light the south korean city of busan, UN-habitat and OCEANIX have signed ...