six months later First, I wrote on Instagram that I left my husband and kids and went to drive 348 miles alone to meet a bunch of strangers in Las Vegas. This was in January 2013. Over the past 10 years, many of this group of “strangers” have become my closest friends, fellow travelers, fellow...
Photo: Dog bath Installation is easy, but with guides, installing four different pads can be time consuming and their placement can feel unreliable. It took me a while to get the clips on properly. Pad slippage from time to time is not the end of the world, but when it does, it defeats the purpose...
Many years ago Christopher Kiba was skeptical about the astronomical data collected by civilian scientists – after all, they rely on people assessing the night sky with the naked eye. But when a student wrote to him with a question about measuring the brightness of the sky, he thought about Globe at night a citizen...
Gallagher discovered that the website that the scammers used to spread their malicious apps was set up to pose as a real Japanese financial company and had a .com domain. It even showed up on Google as one of the top results, Gallagher said, so victims could find it if they tried to do some...
There are a lot of details about two distant objects, especially considering that astrophysicists only directly observed their extremely turbulent end. The team reconstructed the city from a pile of rubbish. To infer so much from so little, they combined observations of neutron stars with findings from studies of other stars and galaxies, creating a...
February 13, Twitter is expected to stop freely accessing its API, or Application Programming Interface, the server-side access that allows people to create bots to automatically post and reply to tweets on the site. Elon Musk, who took over Twitter last October, has long said he wants to purge the platform of bots and said...
United States securities and the Exchange Commission is on the warpath, with cryptocurrency under the gun. On the weekend, Wall Street Journal informed that the agency intends to sue crypto firm Paxos for issuing BUSD, a stablecoin developed in partnership with the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance. The SEC declined to comment, but Paxos, based...
Vexas would have been discovered a long time ago if it were a genetic disease in a garden variety caused by an inherited genetic mutation. For example, a single gene responsible for familial Mediterranean fever, also an inflammatory disease, was identified in 1997 by screening the DNA of families that carried the disease. But Vexas...
Guys, do you like science fiction? Stahelian: I’ve always been into science fiction. For example, John Wick is hyperreal. But it also has this analog sense. Old computers, old suits, old things. Reeves: I am interested in telling stories about people and their interaction with technology. Keanu, years ago you included a clause in your...
“I bought a lot of things that were complete crap, so I decided to share them,” says Kromelis. “I just wanted to help people save some money because I’m a tight-fisted guy myself.” In her first video, she talked about expensive hair and face products that people shouldn’t buy, but also recommended cheaper alternatives. Critics...
