Amazon Bans Employees From Using TikTok on Their Phones
[ad_1] Around midday Friday, some employees at Amazon began posting on Twitter about another beloved, but increasingly embattled, online platform:...
Covid-19 Immunity May Rely on a Microscopic Helper: T Cells
[ad_1] That makes it difficult to know if vaccine developers are really on the right track. Their hunch is based,...
What It’s Like to Work at Studio Ghibli
[ad_1] Steve Alpert spent 15 years at Studio Ghibli, working to get films such as Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away...
Microsoft Halts a Global Fraud Campaign That Targeted CEOs
[ad_1] Microsoft has neutered a large-scale fraud campaign that used knock-off domains and malicious apps to scam customers in 62...
Best Unlimited Data Plans: T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon
[ad_1] TIRED: The Essentials plan only includes 3G speeds if you use your phone as a Wi-Fi hotspot. You have...
Where Are the Adults in the Clubhouse?
[ad_1] Then, last week on Twitter, a VC named Balaji Srinivasan wrote a mocking reply to one of Lorenz’s tweets,...
The Ways We’re Fighting Back Against Doomscrolling
[ad_1] Doomscrolling—everybody's doing it! You’re lying in bed, on your phone, trying to fall asleep, but then you end up...
An Algorithm Set Students’ Grades—and Altered Their Futures
[ad_1] Eighteen-year-old Anahita Nagpal’s plans to start training this fall to be a doctor are in ruins. She blames a...
Linkin Park T-Shirts Are All the Rage in China
[ad_1] “Futuristic mood” and “technology” sound like vague reasons for a mass consumer trend, but they’re the closest I’ve heard...
Larry Brilliant on How Well We Are Fighting Covid-19
[ad_1] I hear that.Yes. Two of my friends who worked on Contagion got Covid. Ian Lipkin, who, along with me,...
How to Use Slack Without Driving Your Coworkers Crazy
[ad_1] Whether you’ve been working from home for a decade or have been thrust into the remote office for the...
Neo-Nazis Are Running Out of Places to Hide Online
[ad_1] Telegram had truly hit a nerve. The place that had been such a reliable safe haven for the far...
‘Palm Springs’ Is a Timely Comedy About Being Stuck in the Now
[ad_1] What is surprising: I felt weirdly melancholy about this objectively happy ending. Palm Springs was intended for a theatrical...
Will We Recognize Life on Mars When We See It?
[ad_1] Percival Lowell wasn’t the first to think he’d discovered life on Mars, but he was among the last. In...
Covid Kills More Men Than Women. Experts Still Can’t Explain Why
[ad_1] Other scholars think the overall pattern of greater male death is more meaningful. “You still see this one phenomenon...
Alienware M15 R2 Review: A Powerful Gaming Laptop
[ad_1] My first Alienware laptop was roughly the size of an industrial airliner. OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration. But it...
DoNotPay Unsubscribes You From Spam—and Tries to Get You Paid
[ad_1] If you use a mainstream email provider, it likely catches most of the obviously useless and potentially malicious spam...
Dear Joe Biden: Don’t Listen to Silicon Valley
[ad_1] Dear Vice President Biden, In this moment when a pandemic, an economic contraction, and protests against racism have combined...
Uber Moves Stealthily to Gain Allies in a Fight With Cities
[ad_1] In February, the outreach director for an organization called Communities Against Rider Surveillance wrote to Evan Greer. CARS wanted...
An Audit Slams Facebook as a Home for Misinformation and Hate
[ad_1] Civil rights leaders who instigated an unprecedented ad boycott of Facebook renewed criticism of the social media company for...