March 2, 2021 Smoke 100 Cigarettes Right Now If You Want a Vaccine in North Carolina (Kidding, Please Don’t) Have you smoked 100 cigarettes in your life? Can you take up, and kick, a pack-a-day habit in the next two weeks? Are you…
March 2, 2021 Japanese Billionaire Who Bought Tickets on SpaceX’s Starship Announces 8 Seats Are Up for Grabs Yusaku Maezawa, the billionaire Japanese fashion CEO who paid big bucks to Elon Musk’s SpaceX for the first seats on its Starship spacecraft for…
March 2, 2021 Cuttlefish Are Able to Wait for a Reward Perhaps the most unsung members of the cephalopods, a group that counts octopuses, squid, and nautiluses among their ranks, the cuttlefishes is left with…
March 2, 2021 ‘Frustrated’ Facebook Oversight Board May Seek to Examine Its Algorithm (or ‘Whatever’) Facebook’s so-called “Supreme Court” is reportedly seeking the company’s permission to examine the underlying machine-learning models that determine which posts are visible or granted…
March 2, 2021 The Long History of Godzilla’s Cinematic Looks Godzilla isn’t just a monster movie icon, the king of all kaiju: he is a king of looks too. In the nearly seven decades…
March 2, 2021 The User Reviews for Puma’s Gaming Shoes Are Peak Internet Trolling Last year, Puma entered the gaming apparel world with its $100 Active Gaming Footwear, which are basically fancy socks with a bit of added…
March 2, 2021 Amazon Rolls Back Icon That Was a Little Too, Uh, Below the Nose Amazon has quietly edited its app icon, possibly because users noticed that it resembled a smiling, err, uh… we’ll go with Charlie Chaplin, but…
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March 2, 2021 Researchers Create Tiny, Cicada-Like Drones to Invade Small Spaces When we think of drones, we imagine massive, quadrotor machines that buzz around like manic seagulls. But what if your drown was small enough…
March 2, 2021 Software Workers at Glitch Get a Historic Union Contract Glitch, the software company behind Trello and Stack Overflow, now has a collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America (CWA.) The news…