Category: Weird
‘The Last of Us Part II’ and Its Crisis-Strewn Path to Release
Ideally, despite these bleak, heavy elements, players will be so caught up in the story they’re unable to put the controller down. “We want you…
Zynn, the Hot New Video App, Is Full of Stolen Content
Late last month, a mysterious new video app called Zynn began appearing at the top of app store charts, beating out household names like Instagram…
Black Investors Call On VCs to Fix Hiring and Funding
When Monique Woodard started Black Founders in 2011, she wanted to help black entrepreneurs like herself find mentorship, community, and funding in a tech industry…
Behind the Scenes With the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Master of Jellyfish
There’s perhaps no creature on earth more blissfully unaware of the turmoil humanity is descending into than the jellyfish. I mean, it doesn’t even have…
The Protests Prove the Need to Regulate Surveillance Tech
Law enforcement has used surveillance technology to monitor participants of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, as it has with many other protests in US…
The Best Kindle to Buy (and Which to Avoid) for 2020
The 2018 Kindle Paperwhite is an upgrade worth considering. For a couple extra Jacksons, it opens up the joys of reading in the pool, beach,…
5 Raspberry Pi Alternatives: Rock64, PocketBeagle, Banana Pi, Odroid
What would you get if you chopped off the screen of your laptop and threw the keyboard in the trash? You’d get something close to…
Just How Historic Is the Latest Covid-19 Science Meltdown?
When The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine pulled an influential pair of Covid-19 papers last Thursday, it was a rare event in…
IoT Security Is a Mess. Privacy ‘Nutrition’ Labels Could Help
Another key aspect of the security and privacy label project is that the information is also encoded to be machine readable. This way, even if…
These Bacteria Ate Their Way Through a Really Tricky Maze
Trung Phan’s science experiment began with a dare. His boss, Princeton University physicist Robert Austin, challenged him to design a maze that Austin couldn’t solve….