September 3, 2021 Floods, fires, and extreme heat: disaster pile-ups are the new norm Damage in the city of Pointe-Aux-Chenes, near montegut, Louisiana on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. | Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP via…
September 3, 2021 Firefly’s Alpha rocket detonated by Space Force during first launch Small launch company Firefly’s Alpha rocket exploded mid-flight Thursday night, minutes after a clean liftoff during its first attempt to reach space. The rocket…
September 3, 2021 The DeanBeat: Will the metaverse bring the second coming of Second Life? Linden Lab’s Second Life has started a cross-platform payment system called Tilia Pay that can make it more influential in the metaverse era.Read More…
September 3, 2021 Under the hood: 3D graphics engine powers digital twins Inside most digital twins you find a 3D graphics engine, a tool growing in popularity, according to a Tech Soft 3D manager.Read More via…
September 3, 2021 ‘Nowhere Is Perfectly Safe’: A Coastal Expert on What Comes After Ida Hurricane Ida slammed into southeast Louisiana on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina—and less than a year after two other hurricanes hit the region. The…
September 3, 2021 Bumble and Match Have Created a Relief Fund To Help Cover Abortion Costs in Texas The dating platforms Bumble and Match Group, the company that owns Tinder, have teamed up to create a relief fund for Texas women seeking abortions…
September 3, 2021 Amazon Is Reportedly Making Its Own TVs Because of Course It Is Amazon is at it again. According to an Insider report, the company is now preparing to launch its own Amazon-branded TVs, possibly as soon…
September 3, 2021 Vergecast: the changes coming to Apple’s App Store policies Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where we discuss the week in tech…
September 3, 2021 Candyman’s Queer Couple Was Haunted by the White Gaze In director Nia DaCosta’s Candyman, a new generation of Chicagoans finds themselves in a gentrified Cabrini-Green that bears little resemblance to the neighborhood in…
September 3, 2021 Rare, Early Version of the King Arthur Legend Translated by Researchers A team of researchers has published a full English translation of an 800-year-old passage from the story of King Arthur. They also analyzed the…