As expected, Apple today confirmed in a press release that iOS 16.1 will be released on Monday, October 24 alongside iPadOS 16 and macOS Ventura. iOS 16.1 includes at least eight new features for iPhone users, such as iCloud Shared Photo Library and Live Activities support in third-party apps on the App Store, along with…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
From left: Mbambi Mbungu and Jacob Chiza lead the march during “Justice for Black Lives” at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 6th, 2020. | Image: Craig F. Walker/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The journal Nature published a special issue on racism in science this week. In it, Black and Indigenous…
This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you stories in the fields of nature and conservation. Reforesting in the Manu National Park. Photo credit: ©Martín Arana From a very young age, I traveled with my parents through different rural areas of…
lululemon We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Willing yourself out of a warm bed at 6 a.m. to visit the gym requires an immense amount of personal strength before you even flex a muscle. Bring the cardio circuit and yoga studio into…
A Sumatra tiger on the edge of a forest. Matthew Luskin The bad news on biodiversity loss can be pretty hard to miss, as Planet Earth heads into a sixth age of mass extinction. The World Wildlife Foundation’s Living Planet Report 2022 paints a grim picture, claiming that wildlife populations have decreased by 70 percent…
Brain cells on a multi-electrode array. Cortical Labs Scientists have taught 800,000 living brain cells in a dish how to play the iconic arcade game “Pong.” This is the work of a team of neuroscientists and programmers from Cortical Labs, Monash University, RMIT University, University College London and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Their…
Some welcome good news for a change. Deposit Photos Global carbon emissions rose in 2021, bouncing back up an estimated six percent following months of slowed emission during the COVID-19 shutdowns. It was a sobering reminder of just how much work remained ahead of us to if we are to ensure a sustainable future for…
Make sure your floors are immaculate. Jason Boyd via Pexels We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › What if we told you you could feel less like Cinderella while cleaning the house, scrubbing the floors with a cloth and bucket of water, and…
The amount of capital raised by Black entrepreneurs continues to decrease. The latest Crunchbase numbers show that Black founders raised $187 million in Q3, a staggering decline from the nearly $1.1 billion they received in Q3 2021 and a sizable drop from the $594 million the cohort raised in Q2. Black founders raised just 0.12%…
Cybersecurity researchers have spotted yet another fake job campaign distributing deadly malware. Mandiant’s latest report found that a new version of known malware threat Ursnif (also known as Gozi) has been reported in the wild. Unlike the previous versions, this one does not carry its usual banking trojan functionalities, prompting researchers to speculate the malware…