This article was adapted from the MidRange newsletter, which published tips on the Mastodon social media network in a pop-up newsletter format called How to Mastodon.
There are a lot of things I could tell you about Mastodon, the social network that has seen an uptake by millions of people in the three or so weeks since Elon Musk officially bought Twitter. The technical differences are significant, and so too is the mindset about things like search.
As someone who has been
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I have orphaned lists lying uncompleted in apps like Remember the Milk, Toodledo, and Any.do. I’ve played with Things and TickTick. I used to like Wunderlist (RIP). All were nice and shiny for a while.
Each has a slick landing page, oodles of features and thousands of diehard
The advent of child monitoring software sacrificed teens physical safety and independence in the name of online safety. Now, with a renewed focus on children’s privacy legislation this fall, the U.S. risks codifying those dynamics under the force of law.
Most of us agree that spying applications shouldn’t track survivors of abuse and journalists, but companies are selling the idea that this dangerous technology belongs on kids’ phones. “There is no differ
Hermeus, a startup building a hypersonic aircraft capable of traveling five times the speed of sound, has completed a major milestone in engine testing. The company successfully demonstrated that its engine can transition from turbojet—like what’s used in passenger aircraft—to ramjet, a much more powerful engine technology.
Hermeus 101
The Atlanta-based startup is moving fast in every sense of the word. The founders came onto the sce
There’s no question that the COVID-19 pandemic affirmed one of the greatest failures in the American healthcare system: too often your health is determined by your zip code.As providers, we are moving to a more holistic approach to care and maintaining health, strategies that have been turbocharged since the pandemic revealed terrible fault lines in outcomes based on race and ethnicity. African-Americans have been twice as likely to die as white Americans in the pandemic.Emerging resea
The sudden return of former Disney CEO Bob Iger to the top role at the company caught a lot of people off guard, none more so than Bob Chapek, who was reportedly blindsided by the move.
Financially, Chapek has nothing to worry about. He has a severance package that’s said to be worth more than $23 million, but when it comes to his Disney legacy, he has plenty to fear. While he was handpicked for the CEO role by Iger, the relationship between the two quickly cooled and eventua
Assuming Twitter can survive the whiplash of being yanked back and forth by new CEO Elon Musk—yet another round of layoffs roiled the sales team Monday morning—the social media platform is shaping up to face a new challenge: possible headbutting with Apple and Google. That is, if Musk’s laissez-faire approach to moderation ends up putting Twitter at odds with developer policies on the major app stores, Musk’s platforming of hateful content could get Twitt
There are certain motifs you can expect to find in one of Pat Finnerty’s YouTube videos: enthusiastic shout-outs to Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, for example; or the ever-expanding mobile of guitar pedals that hovers like a halo above his head; or his undying disdain for music producer and fellow platform personage Rick Beato.
Finnerty, 42, is the creator of What Makes This Song Stink?, a popular YouTube series that explains, well, why certain songs (mostly ones written after
When it comes to the metaverse, there is no shortage of opinions. On one side of the aisle, you have maximalists like Mark Zuckerberg, who sincerely believes we’ll eventually work and socialize within immersive 3D worlds, and is spending billions to make Meta the cornerstone of this new Internet.
Their counterparts are the metaverse bulls—people like Xbox chief Phil Spencer, who’s decried existing metaverse products as a “poorly-built video game.”
Each generation of Mars rovers offers unique technological quirks: Pathfinder introduced the cushioned landing with inflated airbags; Phoenix, the anthropomorphized rover Twitter account; Curiosity, the far-out sky crane descent.
But Opportunity stands out as the Energizer Bunny of the bunch in its capacity to keep going . . . and going. The rover journeyed to Mars for an early 2004 landing along with a twin explorer named Spirit for 90-day missions. While Spirit lasted just over 6