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Monthly Archives: September 2022
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Pentagon officials have ordered a sweeping review of US information warfare operations conducted through social media platforms, The Washington Post reports, after Twitter and Meta both identified networks of fake accounts believed to be connected to the US military. Citing interviews with unnamed defense officials, the Post…
The Braided Solo Loop is the stretchy watch band I’ve been waiting for. | Image: Apple My problem with the Apple Watch, and with practically all watches in general, is the band. Like many people, I spend most of my time sitting at a desk typing on a computer, and I’ve never been able to…
Protecting your devices with PINS and biometrics is a great way to avoid unnecessary suspicions. Plann/Unsplash This story has been updated. It was originally published on August 17, 2021. With so much sensitive data on our phones and laptops, it makes sense that we don’t want unwelcome visitors snooping around. That’s why it’s essential to…
China has been clamping down on Tibetan dissidents for decades. Deposit Photos Two reports from The Citizen Lab and Human Rights Watch earlier this month detail China’s deeply disturbing, ongoing campaign to harvest the DNA of its ethnic minority populations and dissidents. This is particularly evident in Tibet where government repression and forced cultural assimilation…
Tesla is ramping up production at its factories in Texas and Shanghai to head off an upcoming ambush of new EVs from legacy automakers. On Monday, the world’s largest EV maker completed a long-delayed project to expand capacity at Gigafactory Shanghai, where it builds Model Y SUVs and Model 3 sedans for customers in Asia…
As the weather gets hot and dry, things get a little bit tense these days. While it’s been possible for humans to be on the lookout for fires (there are even organizations that make it easy to volunteer to do so), one of the big challenge is that technology often comes up short; by the…
Apple has had support for eSIM since the iPhone Xs/XR, but this year it is going all in by ditching the physical SIM card slot for all iPhone 14 versions sold in the U.S. While models sold in other countries will have support for both physical and virtual SIM, Apple could eventually remove the SIM…
The Indian capital market regulator has moved Digit’s IPO application to “abeyance,” it said in what is a disappointing development for the online insurer’s plan to go public. The Securities and Exchange Board of India, the Indian market regulator, updated the status of Fairfax-backed Digit to note that it had moved the process of issuance…
The world is headed for a food shortage by 2050 as its population increases, so anything to make it easier for farmers to grow food will go a long way. That’s what InnerPlant founder and CEO Shely Aronov is trying to do with her startup that uses plant physiology to gather loads of data to…