T-Mobile completed its acquisition of Sprint Wednesday, officially reducing the number of major mobile carriers in the US from four to three.With the deal closed, T-Mobile's outspoken CEO John Legere stepped down, as planned, and…

You know that meme, the one with the cartoon dog sipping out of a mug and saying to himself, this is fine? All the while, the room around him is burning to the ground? Yeah,…

In 2002, my husband and I became seriously ill after a vacation to Martha's Vineyard. It took ten doctors and a year to discover the root cause: We'd been bitten by unseen ticks harboring the…

As the Coronavirus pandemic continues to force people to work from home, countless companies are now holding daily meetings using videoconferencing services from Zoom. But without the protection of a password, there’s a decent chance…

CO2meter is a Python interface to the USB CO2 monitor with monitoring and logging tools, flask web-server for visualization and Apple HomeKit compatibility. Prerequisites OSX Necessary libraries (libusb, hidapi) could be installed via Homebrew: brew…

FF is a proxy server which enables you to fire and forget HTTP requests. That is, sending a HTTP request to a remote server, without waiting for a response or even the network latency required…

A few weeks ago, the phrase "social distancing" didn't mean much to most folks. These days, you hear it frequently. It's all about flattening the curve by physically staying away from other people to ensure…

Early last week, Lennon Rodgers, director of the Engineering Design Innovation Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison, got an urgent email from the university’s hospital. Could his lab make 1,000 face shields to protect staff testing…

Two weeks ago, national and world health authorities—and armchair experts and worried well-meaning people—were warning anyone concerned about Covid-19 to avoid ibuprofen. Now, facing contradictory evidence, they’ve backed off that claim. But the brief online…

If you’ve got a tiny bit of whiskey, though, and you let it dry out, the water-hating chemical compounds form a skin, or monolayer. “Then as it evaporates, the surface area will crumble and buckle,”…