“It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this,” says the famous quote from the iconic game The Legend of Zelda. In life, it is dangerous to go it alone—and having a supportive community is critical, particularly for people experiencing mental health challenges. This memorable line of dialog inspired the name of the nonprofit Take This, which celebrated its… Continue reading Toxicity in Gaming Is Rampant. This Nonprofit Is Fighting Back
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In the Next Pandemic, Let’s Pay People to Get Vaccinated
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that people like money. If you show them the cash, they’re generally more likely to do what you want, whether that be to stop smoking, work out, or keep up with their medication. As vaccines started to roll out of labs during the pandemic, governments began wondering: How can we encourage as many… Continue reading In the Next Pandemic, Let’s Pay People to Get Vaccinated
The FAA NOTAM Outage Lays Bare an Essential System Everyone Hates
The United States Federal Aviation Administration today halted flights taking off across the country beginning early this morning and continuing until 9 am ET. The pause—the first of its kind in the US since the September 11, 2001 attacks—delayed thousands of flights and created a cascade of further delays and cancellations throughout the day. Those… Continue reading The FAA NOTAM Outage Lays Bare an Essential System Everyone Hates
21 Best Deals: WFH Gear, Weighted Blankets, and Phones
the post-holiday blues can make it tough to get back to your daily routine. But upgrading your gear can make jumping back into things slightly easier. Whether it’s a comfy desk chair for your work-from-home setup, a nimble robot vacuum to keep your house clean, or a pair of sleep earbuds for a restful night—we’ve… Continue reading 21 Best Deals: WFH Gear, Weighted Blankets, and Phones
The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing
The Covid-19 crisis highlighted certain economic and welfare issues associated with using animals for research. Pandemic-related closures meant that many labs had to halt experiments and euthanize animals. Then the race to develop vaccines and treatments for Covid-19 meant monkeys were in short supply due to huge demand. While alternative methods are promising, they’re relatively new. Methods… Continue reading The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing
A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
Last September, law enforcement agents from five counties in Southern California coordinated an operation to investigate, raid, and arrest more than 600 suspected sex offenders. The mission, Operation Protect the Innocent, was one of the largest such raids in years, involving over 64 agencies. According to the Los Angeles Police Department, it was coordinated using a… Continue reading A Police App Exposed Secret Details About Raids and Suspects
Right-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deere’s New Promises
Deere’s new agreement states that it will ensure that farmers and independent repair shops can subscribe to or buy tools, software, and documentation from the company or its authorized repair facilities “on fair and reasonable terms.” The tractor giant also says it will ensure that any farmer, independent technician, or independent repair facility will have… Continue reading Right-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deere’s New Promises
Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe’s First Galaxies
Scientists just announced that they’ve detected what might be some of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, a tantalizing discovery made thanks to NASA’s new flagship James Webb Space Telescope. “This is the first large sample of candidate galaxies beyond the reach of the Hubble Space Telescope,” astronomer Haojing Yan said yesterday at a… Continue reading Astronomers May Have Just Spotted the Universe’s First Galaxies
A Siemens S7-1500 Logic Controller Flaw Raises the Specter of Stuxnet
“This separate crypto core is a very rudimentary chip. It’s not like a big processor, so it doesn’t really know who it’s talking to or what’s going on in the broader context,” Red Balloon’s Skipper says. “So if you can tell it the right things that you observed the processor telling it, it will talk… Continue reading A Siemens S7-1500 Logic Controller Flaw Raises the Specter of Stuxnet
What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley
Novelist Ning Ken first saw Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 1973 as a 14-year-old on a school trip to the Summer Palace, former imperial gardens looted by European troops during the Opium Wars. “At that time, once you passed the zoo, Beijing was just countryside and farmland,” he says, recalling the bus ride heading northwest. Out the… Continue reading What the West Doesn’t Know About China’s Silicon Valley