Photo by Edward Smith/Getty Images I’ve really tried to meditate. I know it would probably be good for me! But no matter how much I tried (and if my therapist asks, I definitely tried), I couldn’t make the habit stick. So I gave up. And I’m not alone: over the past two years, fewer and…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Photo by Hutton Supancic/Getty Images for SXSW You’ve probably seen posts from Dan Price, a Seattle-based tech CEO who regularly goes viral for his activism-tinged posts about treating employees well, politics, and how he’s not like other guys when it comes to his leadership style. “An actual good CEO would never do layoffs ever,” reads…
Photo by Erhan Demirtas / NurPhoto via Getty Images If people around the world were as enthusiastic cyclers as they are in the Netherlands, we could cut an impressive amount of planet-heating pollution. The Dutch use bicycles to get around more than folks in any other country, cycling about 2.6 kilometers (1.62 miles) a day….
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Throughout the pandemic, it has brought me extreme joy to pen articles celebrating that hard-to-find tech is getting easier to buy at retail cost. First, it was the Xbox Series S and Nintendo Switch OLED, then the Series X, and almost all Nvidia and AMD GPUs followed a…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram says it wasn’t intentionally trying to stop creators from filming in its app and then exporting their videos to other platforms like TikTok. The Verge reported this week that sound was being stripped from video clips exported from the Instagram Reels edit screen for iPhone users, meaning…
The Lucid Air Sapphire Edition is the automaker’s quickest EV yet. | Image: Lucid Motors Luxury electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors unveiled the new Lucid Air Sapphire Edition, a top-of-the-line sedan, which the company says will do zero to 60mph in under two seconds, zero to 100mph in under four seconds, and the quarter-mile in…
Enlarge / Ally debit card owners are reporting fraudulent charges at a steady cadence over the past week. (credit: Getty Images) Ben Langhofer, a financial planner and single father of three in Wichita, Kansas, decided to start a side business. He had made a handbook for his family, laying out core values, a mission statement,…
Enlarge / How long do we really need chemicals to last? (credit: Sura Nualpradid | EyeEm via Getty) PFAS chemicals seemed like a good idea at first. As Teflon, they made pots easier to clean starting in the 1940s. They made jackets waterproof and carpets stain-resistant. Food wrappers, firefighting foam, even makeup seemed better with…
PFAS or “forever chemicals” are found in soil and water all over the world. Deposit Photos They’re found in everything from shampoos to non-stick pans to fast-food wrappers. They’re in the water, air, and soil around the globe. They’re a health hazard and there are more than 3,000 of them. They’re called “per- and polyfluoroalkyl…
404s? Worry not. Jonathan Kemper / Unsplash For most of us our web browsers are an essential part of our day-to-day, giving us access to all the wonders that the internet has to offer: News, social media, music and video, emails, and everything else. So it’s natural that if anything goes wrong with your browser,…