Scientists find an average of 40 microplastic particles per cubic meter of the northern water. The likely source? The synthetic clothing in our washing machines.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Postapocalyptic Video Games Saved Me From Pandemic Despair
Job Screening Service Halts Facial Analysis of Applicants
Omori Is the Horror RPG of Your Dreams (or Nightmares)
Google’s New Union Is Already Addressing Political Issues
How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito?
A Startup Will Nix Algorithms Built on Ill-Gotten Facial Data
Monday, January 11, 2021
Mobileye Puts Lidar on a Chip—and Helps Map Intel's Future
Listening to Black Women: The Innovation Tech Can't Crack
The SolarWinds Hackers Shared Tricks With a Russian Spy Group
The Plan to Build a Global Network of Floating Power Stations
How to Get More Plant-Based Meat Onto Plates in 2021
2021 and the Conspiracies of Johnny Mnemonic
If You Are Going to Survive, You Must Prepare to Fail
CES Liveblog: Smart Home, Workout Tech, and So Many TVs
Sunday, January 10, 2021
A Newfound Source of Cellular Order in the Chemistry of Life
The Best Cheap Phones for (Almost) Every Budget
6 Apps to Help You Trim Down Subscriptions—and Save Money
A Digital Picture Frame Is My Favorite Way to Keep in Touch
Saturday, January 9, 2021
The SolarWinds Investigation Ramps Up
What Would It Take to Run a City on 100 Percent Clean Energy?
Amazon's Fitness Tracker Teaches You How to Be Nicer (Kinda)
The Mystery of the World’s Loneliest Penguins
How Long Would It Take for a 747 to Stop, Like in Tenet?
The 14 Best Weekend Deals on Home Goods, Tech, and TVs
The Capitol Attack Doesn’t Justify Expanding Surveillance
Friday, January 8, 2021
The 2 Tweets That Got Trump Banned Were Far From His Worst
The DC Insurrection Lays Bare the Fiction of America
A Virus Variant Spreads, Vaccine Efforts Accelerate, and More
WhatsApp Has Shared Your Data With Facebook for Years
Your Media Diet Will Never Be the Same
The Mandalorian Is Way Better in Season 2
A Trump Ban Is Easy. Fixing Facebook and Twitter Will Be Hard
Get the Most Out of Your iPad With These Accessories
Trump Gets Suspended, but CES Does Not
The Rise of Sierra Online Wasn’t Exactly a Fairytale
New York City Proposes Regulating Algorithms Used in Hiring
The DC Mobs Could Become a Mythologized Recruitment Tool
How Fast Can Scientists Find the New Coronavirus Strains?
Thursday, January 7, 2021
A Game Livestreaming Site Has Become an Extremist Haven
Post-Riot, the Capitol Hill IT Staff Faces a Security Mess
The Race to Preserve the DC Mob's Digital Traces
Platforms Must Pay for their Role in the Insurrection
Call Trump's Scheme for What It Is: Autocracy
Even Mark Zuckerberg Has Had Enough of Trump
Do I Have a Moral Obligation to Be On TikTok?
Climate Change Is Turning Cities Into Ovens
How to Find the Perfect Music and Podcasts, Faster
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
These Are the 17 Must-Watch TV Shows of 2021
Ticketmaster Pays Up for Hacking a Rival Company
Razor’s E-Scooter Isn’t Much of a Kick
Activists Publish a Vast Trove of Ransomware Victims' Data
Want a Better PC? Try Building Your Own
For Marginalized Groups, Being Studied Can Be a Burden
The US Needs More Foreign Artificial Intelligence Know-How
The Autonomous-Car Chaos of the 2004 Darpa Grand Challenge
There Should Be a Nobel Prize for Vaccine Logistics
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
One Free Press Coalition Spotlights Journalists Under Attack - January 2021
26 Movies We Want to See in 2021—One Way or Another
A Farewell to Adobe Flash—and the Messy, Glorious Web
Watch a Robot Dog Learn How to Deftly Fend Off a Human
The Nokia 5.3 Is a Dependable Phone for Under $200
Twitch Is Having a Political Renaissance
A 25-Year-Old Bet Comes Due: Has Tech Destroyed Society?
Monday, January 4, 2021
Tenet Is a Must-Watch for Fans of Action Movies
The UK Denies Assange's Extradition, Citing Suicide Risk
How to Upgrade Your Home Audio While You're Quarantined
Wikipedia's Biggest Challenge Awaits in 2021
In India, Smartphones and Cheap Data Are Giving Women a Voice
This Drone Sniffs Out Odors With a Real Moth Antenna
Sunday, January 3, 2021
Gear and Tips to Winter-Proof Your Home and Stay Warm
The Milky Way Gets a New Origin Story
This $40 Cast-Iron Pot Is the Secret to Baking a Perfect Loaf
Saturday, January 2, 2021
Humanity Is in Danger of Becoming Obsolete in LX 2048
What a Victorian Disease Detective Proved About Urban Health
Ways to Stay Sane and Relaxed During Quarantine
Friday, January 1, 2021
Zoom Book Tours: 5 Authors on Publishing in a Pandemic
How to Make the Most of a Virtual Therapy Session
How to Cook in Your Tiny Kitchen (and Stay Sane)
Thursday, December 31, 2020
Dungeons, Dragons, and Diversity
How Tech Could Help Us Contemplate Our Own Mortality
Yes to Masks. No to Parties. 2021 Will Be a Lot Like 2020
Timnit Gebru’s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI
After 2020, Live Events Might Not Look the Same. Good!
Wednesday, December 30, 2020
20 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2020
4 Ways to Make Your Home Smart and More Energy Efficient
4 Ways to Make Your Home Smart and More Energy Efficient
The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2020
How My Record Player Helped Me Feel the Music
30 Years Since the Human Genome Project Began, What’s Next?
Tuesday, December 29, 2020
The PS5 and Xbox Series X Are Closing the PC-Console Gap
How to Get the Most Out of (or Into) Your Robot Vacuum
Ransomware Is Headed Down a Dire Path
Yet Another Year of Venture Capital Being Really White
In a Pandemic, Medical Illustrators Made Science Accessible
Hamlet 2000 Has Never Made More Sense
Monday, December 28, 2020
The LG Wing's Swiveling Screen Proves Phones Can Be Fun Again
This Year I Found Pleasure in the Work of Looking
15 Xbox Series X/S Tips to Level Up Your New Console
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