When we last left Star Trek: Lower Decks, its excellent debut season ended with an explosive sea change. Our beloved goofball ensigns had started big new chapters in their lives in Starfleet and relationships with each other—and so by the end of its second season premiere, you might find it a little odd that some of…
We might not be able to study a walking, breathing woolly mammoth in real life, but what if we could track its movements and get a sense of where it traveled, from its birth to its death? For the first time ever, scientists have done just that.
The actors prompted a conversation about Hollywood’s bathing habits.
Jason Arena’s damning question for people who downplay COVID-19 and refuse the vaccine has been seen millions of times.
This week it’s become clear that Niantic’s reverting of COVID-19 (pandemic) bonuses in Pokemon GO in the summer of 2021 was a bit of a misstep. Niantic made the right moves in 2020, changing key elements in the game Pokemon GO to allow people to continue playing the game as they stayed quarantined at home, avoiding the spread of COVID-19. … Continue reading
If you’ve used the Google Search bar in an Android device in the recent past, you probably weren’t impressed. Depending on the device, you were more than likely simply sent to the Google App, and the search system – until now – was a bit of a mess. With the latest update to Android, with Android 12 and its 4th … Continue reading
Sonos is exploring the potential of its own voice assistant, offering an alternative to Amazon Alexa and the Google Assistant, with one big advantage over its existing voice control feature. Sonos speakers launched in the past few years have distinguished themselves by including support for either Google or Amazon’s voice tech, user-selectable rather than preconfigured like most smart speakers. That … Continue reading
The Canadian video hosting platform Rumble, which has become a conservative and far-right stronghold, has thrown a Hail Mary pass: it’s now recruiting more diverse (read: less alt-right) personalities to join the site and “challenge the status quo” in their own fashion. Most prominently, they’ve enlisted former…
After a 13-year legal battle, Shell agreed on Wednesday to pay $111 million (45.9 billion naira) to a Nigerian community for damages caused by its crude oil spill more than five decades ago.
The Perseverance rover may have hit its first major hiccup on Mars, as last week’s attempt at sampling Martian rock turned up a perplexing amount of nothing. Yesterday, mission team members at NASA reported that the rover’s systems functioned perfectly—the problem instead lies with the composition of the Martian…
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