Bacteria and the Sun Can Destroy Ocean Plastic—but Is It the Fix We Need?
It’s overwhelming to think about how polluted our oceans are—so much so that it’s increasingly tempting to think of technological…
2023
Oakland Has Declared a State of Emergency After a Ransomware Attack
A week after a calamitous ransomware attack struck the city of Oakland, local officials have declared a state of emergency.…
Star Trek: Picard Returns, With the Sins of the Past in Tow
Over two wildly different seasons so far, Star Trek: Picard has tried to navigate just what it wants to say…
Instagram Gets New Broadcast Channel Feature
Instagram is getting a new ‘channels’ feature added to its platform, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday on Facebook. The…
Paramount+ Plans Imminent Subscription Hikes
Soon, Paramount+ subscribers will have to shell out more per month to access the same subscription tiers. The streaming service…
After a Year of Tinkering, Richard Branson’s Spaceplane Launcher Flies Again
Virgin Galactic’s carrier aircraft VMS Eve took to the California skies yesterday for an important two-and-a-half-hour flight test. It’s the…
Hasbro Admits Missteps With Wizards of the Coast
Early in today’s Hasbro earnings call, Chris Cocks—the CEO of Hasbro and former president of Wizards of the Coast (2016-2022)—spoke…
It’s Time to Finally Get Our Ass to Uranus
With its strange rings and tilt, surprising seasonal variations, and 27 moons, Uranus is the solar system’s weirdo planet. The…
A Secretive Israeli Company Says It Manipulated More Than 30 Elections Worldwide
A secretive Israeli cyber company is engineering ongoing influence operations directed at elections all over the world, a consortium of…
Researchers Observe Large Cracks Throughout Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’
Thanks to a skinny, torpedo-shaped robot, scientists have been able to better observe the forces eroding Antarctica’s Thwaites glacier, aka…