Monthly Archives: October 2022

Tech companies added fertility features just in time for the culture war

Anti-abortion groups are pushing back against hormonal birth control. | Photo by Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images Tech companies picked an interesting time to start including women’s and reproductive health in their products. For years, they sidestepped the issue: Apple didn’t include period tracking in its health app until 2015. Fitbit only added…

Snapchat Plus subscribers can now set their stories to run for an entire week

Snapchat Plus subscribers are getting a host of new features today that won’t be available to those who use the free service. | Image: Snapchat Snapchat is adding some new features today exclusively for its Snapchat Plus subscribers, which include custom notification sounds, colorful camera borders, and the ability to customize story expirations. Snapchat Plus,…

Researchers found what they believe is a 2,000-year-old map of the stars

Parchment from St. Catherine’s Monastery showing the tracings of older writings highlighted in yellow. (Museum of the Bible, 2021/CC BY-SA 4.0). Museum of the Bible Like a plot straight out of an Indiana Jones movie, a map of the stars created by Greek astronomer Hipparchus that has been missing for centuries has possibly been recovered….