Becky Pringle, president of the National Education Association, joins student loan borrowers at a rally in front of The White House on August 25, 2022 in Washington, DC. Paul Morigi/Getty Images for We the 45m Biden’s plan to forgive student loans could cost more than $1 trillion, per an analysis. The costs depend on how…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The Lord of the Rings’ primary antagonist Sauron has come to Elden Ring thanks to a new armour mod. The mod comes from MaxTheMiracle, and reskins the player with Sauron’s black armour and humanoid figure seen in the likes of Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film adaptations (but without that imposing height). This…
Here is the easiest way to share your photos with family and friends using iCloud. If there is one thing that Apple users will be familiar with it’s iCloud, the cloud storage and cloud-computing service developed by the company that allows users to save and store photos, notes, passwords and other data in a secure…
If you’re looking at buying a new iPhone, you’ve probably come across the phrase “TrueDepth”. But, what is the TrueDepth camera? Read on to learn everything you need to know about the TrueDepth camera in the iPhone, including what it is, what it does, how it works and where you can find it. What is…
The Poco M5 and Poco M5s smartphones are now official. Powered by Helio G-series chipsets by Mediatek and big 5,000 mAh batteries these two aim to redefine the value for money formula. Poco M5 The M5 comes with a 6.58” LCD with Full HD+ resolution and 90Hz refresh rate, and 240Hz touch sampling rate. There…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This nanoparticle could be the key to a universal covid vaccine Long before Alexander Cohen—or anyone else—had heard of the alpha, delta, or omicron variants of covid-19, he and his graduate school advisor…
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge If you’re an Xbox owner in the UK or Europe it might be time to look at what energy mode your console is using. Rising energy costs across the UK and Europe mean the consoles’ Instant On standby mode could cost up to £5 per month next month…
Enlarge / Lenovo’s ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Specs at a glance: Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 Display 13.3-inch 1920×1200 touchscreen (170 PPI) OS Windows 11 Home CPU AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U (eight cores) RAM 16GB LPDDR5 6400 (soldered) GPU AMD Radeon 680M Storage 512GB NVMe SSD Networking Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax), Bluetooth…
Enlarge / Nature wants us to reproduce, so how come celibacy evolved? (credit: Carsten ten Brink/Flickr) Why would someone join an institution that removed the option of family life and required them to be celibate? Reproduction, after all, is at the very heart of the evolution that shaped us. Yet many religious institutions around the…
Enlarge / The northern kōura (Paranephrops planifrons), or freshwater crayfish, is both economically and culturally significant to the indigenous Māori people of New Zealand. (credit: Cultura RM Exclusive/Richard Robinson) Freshwater crayfish have inhabited New Zealand for millions of years. They have dark, hard, and mottled shells, allowing them to blend in with logs and mud…