Category: Technology

June Wan/ZDNET Did you know the network traffic from your Android device is mostly unencrypted and can be easily viewed by a third party with the right tools and skills? Believe me when I tell you that you do not want that.  There are plenty of ways to prevent that, such as using Private DNS. […]

A forest of wind turbines rises out of the fields on both sides of the highway running east out of Vienna. But at the border with Slovakia, which stretches between Austria and Ukraine, they stop. Slovakia gets only 0.4 percent of its energy from wind and solar. Instead it is betting its energy transition on nuclear […]

“I am mad for it to be in contact with me,” Walt Whitman wrote, of what he called “life’s atmosphere.” No doubt he also meant contact with the bodies of the many people he cruised and desired. Likewise, Twitter seems to offer contact with everyone, and the interface exists to make users mad for contact […]

Last week, inside a gold-plated drum in a Northern California lab, a group of scientists briefly recreated the physics that power the Sun. Their late-night experiment involved firing 192 lasers into the capsule, which contained a peppercorn-sized pellet filled with hydrogen atoms. Some of those atoms, which ordinarily repel, were smushed together and fused, a […]

How exciting it must be to confidently declare your company’s latest product to be a “world’s first.” How enticing for your prospective customers, the promise of “endless playtime.” Let’s face it: If you can’t pique a bit of interest this way, well, consumers must be even more jaded than everyone suspected. But though you may […]

“For me, this is a dream measurement,” says David Paige, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles who has been part of the mission since its inception nearly a decade ago. “It’s an opportunity to make a real rapid advancement with such a small spacecraft.” Once the team has mapped out the […]

According to Arsenal, Swamy never touched the files himself. After his devices were seized by Pune City Police, those files were among the digital evidence used to charge him and the other Bhima Koregaon 16 defendants with terrorism as well as inciting a riot in 2018 that led to two deaths. All of Arsenal’s findings, […]

Before you can actually play, there are a few things you need to do. Here are some tips for getting everything set up because the Quest 2 interface is not always the easiest to navigate. Set your boundary. The last thing you want while playing is to run into an object in your room while […]

Michael Arendt has spent his career on the water. After working his way up through the US Merchant Marines from deckhand to riverboat captain, he came ashore in 2001 to work as a lock and dam operator for the US Army Corps of Engineers. He now guides boats hauling anything from rocks to missiles through Alabama’s […]

Among Black folks, on the occasion of being invited to an event, a common question is, “Who gone be there?” In other words, the essential question for determining whether to attend a gathering is knowing who else will be in attendance. If the answer is that there will be no other (or too few) Black […]