Enlarge / The SmartDry laundry sensor was widely regarded as a useful smart home gadget that saved money and time. When its owners’ servers go dark at the end of September, users face a useless device or a notable DIY journey. (credit: Getty Images) SmartDry was a smart home product that did something useful: tell…
Monthly Archives: August 2022
Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto / Contributor | NurPhoto) Even though Twitter’s terms of service explicitly ban posts glorifying self-harm and media depicting “visible wounds,” independent researchers report that Twitter too often seemingly looks the other way regarding self-harm. Researchers from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) estimate there are “certainly” thousands, and possibly “hundreds of thousands,” of users…
Enlarge / A huge logo greets workers heading to the assembly line at a Tesla factory on February 19, 2015, in Fremont, California. (credit: Getty Images | San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers) Tesla violated US labor law by implicitly banning employees from wearing shirts with union insignias, the National Labor Relations Board ruled yesterday. In addition…
Enlarge / Isotopes in sediment cores like these can provide indications of past temperatures. (credit: E Alaska Scientific Party) In a paper recently published in Science, Professor Nele Meckler of the University of Bergen and colleagues argue that the climate between around 35 and 60 million years ago may have been considerably warmer than we thought….
Extreme pogo star Konner Kellogg in the middle of a no-foot cannonball, one of the sport’s trickiest stunts. Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet BROKEN ASPHALT scars the parking lot between the buildings of the abandoned Gladstone School in Pittsburgh. Concrete staircases sit unused. Rusted iron fencing encircles the recess yard. Graffiti covers brick walls. Even the sky, as if…
Esther Horvath / Laurie Greasley / Phillip Lehman / Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet I’VE ALWAYS BEEN a pretty risk-averse person. That’s not to say I don’t love a little rush. I ride roller coasters, cannonball into lakes, and lick mustard off my unsanitized fingers while eating dirty-water dogs from New York City street carts. But at the…
Rachel Parrinello Contributor Rachel Parrinello is a principal in The Alexander Group’s San Francisco office and is a leader in sales compensation, media sales and technology practices. John Stamos Contributor John Stamos, a principal in The Alexander Group’s Chicago office, has extensive experience leading large-scale sales transformation engagements, enterprise program build-outs and global compensation redesign…
SAVE $180: Bring your binge sessions anywhere with the Anker Nebula Capsule II smart portable projector. It’s on sale for $399.99 at Amazon as of August 30 — that’s 31% off its MSRP. If you want to enjoy an outdoor movie night, the Anker Nebula Capsule II projector has you covered. And its price isn’t…
Stare into the core of the Phantom Galaxy. New images from humanity’s most powerful space telescopes — the legendary Hubble telescope and its successor the James Webb Space Telescope — reveal unprecedented detail in this magnificent distant spiral galaxy. It’s 32 million light-years away. The over 30-year-old Hubble telescope views light we can see (visible…
Meta is rolling back yet another of its projects by shutting down its Facebook Gaming app on Android and iOS smartphones from October 28, 2022. The news was delivered to Facebook Gaming users today via a direct notice from the Facebook Gaming team letting them know that after this date Facebook Gaming will be relegated…