South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) workers fumigate an area to prevent mosquito breeding in New Delhi on October 27, 2021. Getty Images This article was originally featured on Undark. As the sun began to set on Delhi, 45-year-old Rani hiked up her salwar pants, squatted next to the iron pan just outside her home, and lit a match….
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The first rule of conducting layoffs is to not be a jerk about it. The second rule is to make sure the social media manager you just laid off doesn’t still have access to your accounts. Today, Tencent violated both of those rules as it laid off nearly all of the editorial staff at Fanbyte,…
Apple in iOS 16 updated the battery icon on iPhones with Face ID to display the specific battery percentage rather than just a visual representation of battery level. At launch, this feature did not include the iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone XR, or iPhone 11, but according to multiple reports from the MacRumors…
Vectra’s discovery of a new Microsoft Teams vulnerability highlights how collaboration apps increase the risk of data leaks.Read MoreRead More
HBO’s Avenue 5 returns next month for its second and final season. We’d almost forgotten about HBO’s dark comedy Avenue 5, which debuted right before the world shut down in response to a global pandemic. But the series, which stars Hugh Laurie as the captain of a luxury cruise spaceship touring the solar system, was renewed…
Today’s launch by Rocket Lab, “The Owl Spreads Its Wings,” was as unremarkable as a rocket going to orbit can be, but it also marked a few milestones for the growing space company: 30 launches and 150 satellites taken to space. The company’s first trip to orbit was in January of 2018, technically Electron’s second…
President Donald Trump returns to the White House from playing golf in Washington, DC on November 7, 2020, after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 presidential election. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images A Florida Judge has selected a special master in the DOJ’s probe of White House docs Trump moved around. The…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is accompanied by Queen Elizabeth II during a procession at The Mallat during the start iof his state visit on June 24, 2003 in London, England. Julian Herbert/Getty Images A Russian official said the UK’s decision not to invite Russia to Queen Elizabeth’s funeral was “deeply immoral.” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson…
Today, for the first time, Puerto Rican art and culture is accessible on a new scale to audiences around the world. 10 museums and archives in Puerto Rico have come together through a partnership with Google Arts & Culture, Lin-Manuel Miranda and myself to launch Puerto Rico: The Sum of Its Arts. This new, digital…
Even if you’re not trying to become the next Charli D’Amelio, it’s worth figuring out how to get verified on TikTok. After all, the social media network has about 1 billion active users a month. That’s a huge potential audience to take advantage of. Verified TikTok accounts benefit from increased exposure and a certain amount…