Misinformation played a deadly role in both the COVID and HIV/AIDS pandemics

Since health officials confirmed the first COVID-19 cases, misinformation has spread just as quickly as the virus. Social media may have

Why economic downturns are the ideal moments to take a risk

I have uncanny timing in switching industries right before a crisis. Over the past 20 years, I’ve learned that careers are like

4 easy ways to make your rental home smarter

Landlords, eh? All you want to do is bring your rented home into the modern era, but these property-owning party poopers won’t let you replace your locks, upgrade your light switches, or even tear out those 1950s wall sockets. They give you some nonsense about liability, about how your lease forbids you from rewiring things, and how they really don’t want you attacking anything with a screwdriver. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to add some

What the Open App Markets Act means for the future of Big Tech

Google and Apple are painting a pearl-clutching apocalyptic picture of the ramifications of the Open App Markets Act. They’re quick to say their walled-garden app stores are necessary for our safety and privacy. But the reality is, they’re greedy, monopolistic rent-seekers, terrified at the prospect of being forced to open their platforms, and more crucially, at parting with some billions of dollars of pure profit.

Most people don’t realize that Apple and Google co

Cyber insurance price hikes have left local governments reeling

Horry County, South Carolina, officials were in for a shock earlier this year, when they discovered their cyber insurance premium would be spiking from $70,000 last year to about $210,000.

And if they couldn’t satisfy the insurance company’s requirements and prove they had the robust controls needed to protect and defend themselves against cyberattacks, they learned, they wouldn’t be able to get their $5 million policy renewed at all.

“The insurance c

How will the Moon’s resources be managed?

It’s been 50 years since humans last visited the Moon, and even robotic missions have been few and far between. But the Earth’s only natural satellite is about to get crowded.

At least six countries and a flurry of private companies have publicly announced more than 250 missions to the Moon to

Report: At least 15% of Chinese Twitter accounts are likely bots

The Israeli marketing security firm CHEQ says that at least 15% of Chinese Twitter accounts are likely to be bots.

CHEQ’s security platform identifies and filters out invalid traffic (such as bots) visiting the websites of its marketer customers. So it can

Duolingo is debuting its much-hyped math app this week

Duolingo’s long-awaited new math app is being unveiled—in beta—at the company’s annual Duocon conference Friday.

Duolingo Math, which already has a waitlist for its beta testing on iOS devices, uses the same game-like interface as its

Every Time Zone: a simple and helpful time zone converter

Every Time Zone is a free website that does exactly what it says on the box, displaying the current time in every major time zone. By moving the time zone slider around, you can quickly look for potential meeting times with folks in other parts of the country or world.

The site also offers a “Customize” button to control which time zones appear in the list. Just sign in with a Google a

Exclusive: Instacart’s CEO says shoppable carts will help the company move ‘from transactional to inspirational’

Instacart is on a mission to broaden its appeal beyond being a transactional platform. The company announced on Thursday the addition of shoppable carts: essentially, bundles of products recommended by retailers, celebrities, and creators.

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