NEW: After the Iranian influence operation was exposed in August, @Bing_Chris and I went digging. Three months later we can finally show you what we found. A lot of it is weird, some of it…
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How to Make Your Video Calls Look and…
If you’re using a phone or laptop, there’s a good chance your camera is horribly positioned for video conferencing. You want your camera at eye level, facing you head-on—so stack your laptop on a couple…
Incognito Mode May Not Work the Way You…
No matter which browser you prefer—Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Opera, or any of the others—it will almost certainly offer an incognito or private mode, one which ostensibly keeps your web browsing secret. (Google Chrome still…
I Bought the Duffel Bag Thats in ‘The…
My husband and I have shared an ancient Mountain Hardwear expedition duffel for years (similar to this one) to keep our snowboarding, surfing, and camping gear together in the car. With the arrival of our…
Why Are Plants Green? The Answer Might Work…
From large trees in the Amazon jungle to houseplants to seaweed in the ocean, green is the color that reigns over the plant kingdom. Why green—and not blue or magenta or gray? The simple answer…
SpaceX Brings Astronauts Home Safely in a Historic…
During the descent, the capsule’s heat shield experienced temperatures above 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit as it used the atmosphere as a brake to reduce its speed from 17,000 to just 350 miles per hour. Once the…
Quiet route planning for pedestrians in traffic noise…
#Noise #pollution is one of the main stressors in urban environments, having negative impacts on people’s quality of life and health. For some groups of citizens, such as school children, patients, and elders, there is…
The Centuries-Long History of Racism in Surveillance Tech
When Simone Browne wrote her book Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness in 2015, her goal was to position the invention of contemporary surveillance technologies “as not being outside of that of the social…
Facebook’s ‘Red Team’ Hacks Its Own AI Programs
In 2018, Canton organized a “risk-a-thon” in which people from across Facebook spent three days competing to find the most striking way to trip up those systems. Some teams found weaknesses that Canton says convinced…