After wasted Netflix have been testing various ways to combat password disclosure for years, making changes to US Help Center Page this week seemed to indicate that the streaming giant had finally decided on a plan. But these tricks quickly disappeared, leaving confusion and anxiety about possible changes to the Netflix account sharing policy. Now...

“Empty space, baby.” “red lip classic”, “look what you made me do”, a million hints of lost scarves – on subreddits and on Twitter, Taylor Swift fans communicate via code. Many countries do this. Free ownership of an artist’s work is a kind of currency in close-knit communities of devotees. That’s why it was strange...

Fear and trepidation over the accidental disclosure of a secret is also hammered into the legislators’ intelligence staff, who treat classified material as an additional defense against absent-minded members of Congress. To gain security clearance, these employees undergo targeted, intimidating, invasive, and multi-stage background checks by either the Pentagon or the FBI, or sometimes both....

Masic’s article is the latest in a series of studies on Roman concrete. Last year, he published a study with Marie Jackson, a researcher at the University of Utah, that examined the 70-foot grave by the first-century Roman noblewoman Caecilia Metella on the Appian Way, an ancient Roman road through Italy. Their investigation revealed that...

  1574th and The final 747 rolled off the Boeing production line in Everett, Washington on Jan. 31 to carry cargo around the world on behalf of New York-based cargo company Atlas Air. This is an unremarkable end to an era of aviation that began more than half a century ago. The first Boeing 747...

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Okay, a couple of quick notes. It’s simple surface Earth temperature. Since sunlight is simply falling on the surface and the Earth is radiating from the surface, this ignores any interactions with the very hot molten core. Also, note that it’s a little colder here than in valid the average temperature of the Earth (13.9°C)...

Mid 2021 Gabor Chelle bought a $15 Moleskine notebook to sketch ideas for new startups. On the front page, he wrote “T2” and started taking notes for a better version of Twitter. Celle sold startups Google and Twitter and worked for both companies. (This was his second time at Google as director of Area 120,...