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Monthly Archives: August 2022
AK-47 style semi-automatic rifles on display at the May, 2022 National Rifle Association annual meeting in Houston, Texas, left. The Tiktok logo, right. Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images, left. Avishek Das, Getty Images, right. Anger over the Mar-a-Lago raid has led to a surge in disturbing posts on mainstream sites, experts say. Anti-government, pro-Trump posts…
Big Diomede Island, Russia (left) and Little Diomede Island, Alaska (right). Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2018/Gallo Images/Getty Images Life in Diomede, Alaska, is unlike anywhere else in the United States. Just 2.4 miles from Russia’s Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore. “We’re safe, as long as…
FORT WORTH, TEXAS – MAY 14: Abortion rights demonstrators gather during a nationwide rally in support of abortion rights in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, on May 14, 2022. Charles C. Peebles/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Florida’s First District Court of Appeal denied a 16-year-old’s request to get an abortion. The minor, who lives with…
Like Blizzard, Rockstar and Ubisoft, Sony may soon require you to download a launcher before you can play its games on PC. Digging through the Windows version of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Remastered, VGC verified code referencing a PlayStation PC launcher. The discovery follows the recent revelation that Sony likely plans to add PlayStation Network integration to…
Once you post an Instagram story, it’s only up for 24 hours… but in internet time, that’s plenty. Ask any social media manager who’s posted something by accident: every minute matters. 500 million users access Instagram stories every day. That means that Instagram stories are an excellent opportunity for businesses (58% of users say they’re…
A juvenile snailfish, Liparis gibbus, that dwells in freezing Arctic waters. © J. Sparks, D. Gruber Some of the most significant scientific inventions—penicillin, gunpowder, the microwave—were discovered by accident. Now a group of researchers investigating how some animals live in the freezing Arctic have another to tack on the list: natural antifreeze. A new study…
Meta loosely outlined how it plans to brace its platforms for the upcoming U.S. midterm elections Tuesday, starting with political ads. In November, the nation will decide a number of key congressional and gubernatorial races in the midst of worsening political polarization that the social network has become synonymous with in recent years. Meta, which…
It was the fundraise heard around Twitter. Adam Neumann, the infamous entrepreneur behind WeWork, raised a stunning $350 million from Andreessen Horowitz for a yet-to-launch real estate company called Flow. The investment gave Neumann’s latest venture a more than $1 billion valuation, as reported by The New York Times, and came amid what is supposed…
SAIC Mobility Robotaxi, an arm of state-owned Chinese automaker SAIC aiming to launch a commercial robotaxi service, raised $148 million (RMB 1 billion). The funds will be used to scale its robotaxi service in China, which it will operate in partnership with autonomous vehicle company Momenta. SAIC Group led the Series B round that also…