I’m a relative newbie to playing video games. Sure, I played Duck Hunt and Mortal Kombat with my cousins growing up, and I’ve watched a lot of Halo, but it wasn’t until I started playing them myself that I became ensnared in a gear-related Gordian knot. I got a Switch. Then I tried Stadia because… Continue reading The Roccat Sova Solved My Gaming Problems
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The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
Though foreign Disinformation campaigns have targeted the 2022 United States midterm elections to a degree, most of the pressure on US voting infrastructure has come from inside the house. Violent domestic threats against election officials have soared around the country in the past couple of years, endangering workers and, increasingly, driving them from the profession… Continue reading The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash
According to an IRS-CI affidavit detailing Zhong’s theft of the 50,000-plus bitcoins from the Silk Road, he appears to have found a vulnerability in that dark-web market that in 2012 allowed him to somehow pull more coins out of accounts he created there than he had deposited. The affidavit describes how he registered a succession… Continue reading IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash
Elon Musk Has Put Twitter’s Free Speech in Danger
Before becoming Twitter’s CEO, owner, and “Chief Twit,” Elon Musk had often lobbed criticism at the platform for its approach to content moderation, even going so far as to target the company’s former policy chief Vijaya Gadde. But while Musk has expressed his concern about “liberal bias” on the platform, many activists, journalists, and advocates… Continue reading Elon Musk Has Put Twitter’s Free Speech in Danger
Teflon Nonstick Pans Are Bad. Consider These Alternatives
As my pro-level-home-cook friend Shannon says, “I can’t imagine doing serious stuff in ceramic.” It was time to break some eggs. On and off for several months, I cooked with the $50 Oxo Ceramic Professional Non-Stick 8-Inch Frypan, folding it into my daily kitchen testing and home cooking. (I also had a larger 10-inch version… Continue reading Teflon Nonstick Pans Are Bad. Consider These Alternatives
5 Best Dog Beds (2022): Indoor, Outdoor, Elevated
Your dog’s bed of choice may be whatever bed you’re in … but that may not be your bed of choice for your dog. Whether they steal the covers or just sprawl out everywhere, there never quite seems to be enough space for you and your pup each night. Fortunately for your furry companion (and… Continue reading 5 Best Dog Beds (2022): Indoor, Outdoor, Elevated
BMW i7 2022 Review: High Life, High-Tech
The Curved Display we know from the iX. It’s core to BMW’s push to digitalization and combines a 12.3-inch instrument display with a longer 14.9-inch main infotainment glass touchscreen. The whole thing is a sculpture in its own right and sits on slender brackets on top of an open-pore matte wood trim. Audio, navigation, Apple… Continue reading BMW i7 2022 Review: High Life, High-Tech
TikTok Admits Staff in China Can Access Europeans’ Data
Open internet proponents were relieved last month when an American candidate beat a Russian challenger in an election to run the International Telecommunications Union, an important international standards body tasked with cross-boundary communications. Meanwhile, though, we took a look at the fragility of the world’s internet infrastructure and the vulnerability of crucial undersea cables. Researchers… Continue reading TikTok Admits Staff in China Can Access Europeans’ Data
Google Expands Flood and Wildfire Tracking to More Countries
A gaggle of new AI projects are coming soon from Google, including disaster monitoring tools and a service that uses machine intelligence to generate custom videos. The company announced the array of initiatives at its AI@ event this week. The most practical development: Google is expanding its AI-powered disaster tracking and response systems. The company… Continue reading Google Expands Flood and Wildfire Tracking to More Countries
The Harms of Psychedelics Need to Be Put Into Context
In November 2021, when the psychedelics company Compass Pathways released the top-line results of its trial looking at psilocybin in patients with treatment-resistant depression, the stock of the company plunged almost 30 percent. The dive was reportedly prompted by the somewhat-middling results of the research—but also because of the scattering of serious adverse events that… Continue reading The Harms of Psychedelics Need to Be Put Into Context