The Federal Trade Commission has launched an antitrust suit against alleged robot Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta-formerly-known-as-Facebook, blocking — at least for now — the company’s purchase of the VR startup Within, The New York Times reports. This case could be a major bump in the road for Zuck’s Metaverse vision, especially coming in tandem with the… Continue reading Gov Files Antitrust Suit to Stop Facebook From Buying VR Company
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Expert Finds Compelling Explanation for Mysterious Red Glow in Ocean
It’s not what you think. Saury About That It wasn’t a “Stranger Things” portal opening to another dimension, like many social media users speculated online this week. In reality, it sounds like the mysterious red glow that pilot Dustin Maggard captured in photos and video of the Pacific Ocean was perfectly human in origin. Yesterday, CNN… Continue reading Expert Finds Compelling Explanation for Mysterious Red Glow in Ocean
Best Android Games in 2022
Considering how powerful Android phones and tablets are, it’s only natural to use them to play the best Android games. While the Nintendo Switch and the Steam Deck may be more synonymous with portable gaming, the device you use to call your mom or share memes also packs plenty of great gaming possibilities in it.… Continue reading Best Android Games in 2022
This Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Patch Can Image Internal Organs
When a patient goes into a clinic for an ultrasound of their stomach, they lie down on crinkly paper atop an exam table. A clinician spreads a thick goo on their abdomen, then presses a small probe into it to send acoustic waves into the patient’s body. These waves bounce off their soft tissues and… Continue reading This Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Patch Can Image Internal Organs
Comic-Con 2022: The Most Wildly Creative Cosplay Masks
Comic-Con wouldn’t be Comic-Con without cosplay. As much a part of the event as Hall H panels and comics themselves, getting decked out in elaborate costumes—or looking at people decked out in elaborate costumes—is one of the main reasons people attend. This year, cosplay felt even more crucial. Due to health concerns over the spread… Continue reading Comic-Con 2022: The Most Wildly Creative Cosplay Masks
How Tor Is Fighting—and Beating—Russian Censorship
For years, the anonymity service Tor has been the best way to stay private online and dodge web censorship. Much to the ire of governments and law enforcement agencies, Tor encrypts your web traffic and sends it through a chain of computers, making it very hard for people to track you online. Authoritarian governments see… Continue reading How Tor Is Fighting—and Beating—Russian Censorship
Biden’s climate plan is back, and it’s all about building things
It’s been a long road for the “Build Back Better” plan — but Wednesday night, after over a year of both public and private negotiations, we finally saw a proposal that could actually clear Congress. Renamed the “Inflation Reduction Act,” the new Sen. Manchin-endorsed proposal would raise roughly $740 billion in revenue through a combination… Continue reading Biden’s climate plan is back, and it’s all about building things
Watch Annapurna Interactive’s games showcase here at 3PM ET
Annapurna Interactive is set to hold its second games showcase today at 3PM and you can watch it below (we’ll embed the stream once it’s available). The powerhouse indie publisher just released one of the most anticipated games of the year in Stray, as well as the acclaimed, speedrun-friendly Neon White. It’s about to offer… Continue reading Watch Annapurna Interactive’s games showcase here at 3PM ET
Hitoki Trident hands-on: Precision craftsmanship meets a stoney day at the planetarium
There is no better, brighter, more shining example of humanity’s immeasurable resourcefulness and engineering imagination than in the myriad ways we’ve come up with to get stoned, whether we’re smoking it, eating it, drinking it, pressing it between two really hot plates and then smoking the gooey runoff or gently heating it in a ceramic… Continue reading Hitoki Trident hands-on: Precision craftsmanship meets a stoney day at the planetarium
Instagram starts asking some users about their race and ethnicity
Between the controversy over Instagram’s attempts to ape TikTok and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg noting that the volume of recommended content is set to double over the next year, the app has barely been out of the news this week. Now, the Instagram team wants to know more about the experiences of marginalized communities in… Continue reading Instagram starts asking some users about their race and ethnicity