Researchers rank the 12 best ways to get cars out of cities
Question: what do the following statistics have in common? Answer: the vehicles on our streets, primarily the not-so-humble passenger car. Despite the (slow) migration to electric-powered cars, consumer trends are…
Twitter scammers are hijacking verified accounts to tweet fake Moonbirds NFT links
Twitter crypto scammers are now targeting Moonbirds NFTs, a project by entrepreneurs Kevin Rose and Ryan Carson. It’s a collection of 10,000 pixelated owls that have raked millions in sales…
The Surprising Climate Cost of the Humblest Battery Material
An ode, for a moment, to the anode, for it is so frequently overlooked. When a battery is powered up, lithium ions rush toward this positively-charged end and ensconce themselves…
Hospital Robots Are Helping Combat a Wave of Nurse Burnout
Since February, the nurses at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia, have had an extra assistant on their shifts: Moxi, a nearly 6-foot-tall robot that ferries medication, supplies, lab samples,…
Battle Kitty Stretches the Limits of Netflix’s Interactive Tech
While creating his new show Battle Kitty, there was one thing executive producer Matt Layzell knew he wanted: booties. “There’s just something about little cute characters shaking their butts,” he…
UK government reportedly hit by Pegasus spyware
Audio player loading… Cybersecurity researchers from Citizen Lab have warned UK officials from 10 Downing Street and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that their endpoints were being targeted with spyware.…
Some Lenovo laptops may be carrying a serious security flaw
Audio player loading… Cybersecurity experts from ESET have found three security flaws in hundreds of different Lenovo laptop models which could put millions of users at risk. ESET said exploiting…
Battlefield 2042 finally gets voice chat – a whole five months after launch
Audio player loading… Battlefield 2042’s major 4.0 update is live, introducing over 400 bug fixes and gameplay rebalances, as well as new features that fans have been calling for since…
Invincible season 2 release moves a step closer in latest update
Audio player loading… Invincible star Steven Yeun has revealed he’s started recording lines for the animated show’s highly anticipated second season. In the most significant Invincible season 2 development yet,…
The End of Alcohol
For years, too, there’s been a stampede of self-help books by alcohol skeptics, most of them women, many of whom once had trouble drinking not the third bottle. These books…