January 24, 2023 Huge Trash Buildup Totally Covers Section of Balkan River Some unsettling imagery out of Europe last week: The Drina river, a 215-mile waterway that constitutes much of the border of Bosnia & Herzegovina…
January 24, 2023 Lyft starts charging wait time fees to late passengers Lyft has quietly started charging late fees to customers who make their drivers wait for them. In a recently published support document, the company…
January 24, 2023 Birth/Rebirth Slices Into a Grisly Tale of Motherhood Heartbreak and body horror intersect in Laura Moss’ Birth/Rebirth, a homage to Frankenstein and David Cronenberg’s visceral nightmares that also puts motherhood—in various senses…
January 24, 2023 Blizzard support studio workers drop union bid One Activision Blizzard studio won’t form a union, at least not in the near future. The Communication Workers of America (CWA) says it’s withdrawing…
January 24, 2023 Android 14 Could Prevent You from Installing Ancient Apps The next version of Android isn’t due out until late this year, but it’s as good a time as any to start sniffing around…
January 24, 2023 NASA and DARPA will test nuclear thermal engines for crewed missions to Mars NASA is going back to an old idea as it tries to get humans to Mars. It is teaming up with the Defense Advanced…
January 24, 2023 Stephanie Hsu on Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Lucky Success Everything Everywhere All at Once, the little multiverse film that could, has received 11 Academy Award nominations. The Daniels’ transcendent film from A24 nabbed…
January 24, 2023 Ticketmaster knows it has a bot problem, but it wants Congress to fix it In November, millions of Taylor Swift fans logged on to Ticketmaster hoping to scoop up tickets to arguably the most-anticipated tour of 2023. When…
January 24, 2023 5G IoT connections are set to hit a major milestone this year A new study has identified 2023 as a huge turning point for 5G IoT (Internet of Things) connections globally, and the next three years…
January 24, 2023 The ‘Most Canceled Man’ In America Gets His Platform Back on Twitter Nick Fuentes, a known white nationalist streamer who pushes Holocaust denial conspiracies and other anti-Semitic hate, has a lingering, if not growing presence across…