I’m in my mid-40s—not technically old by relative standards, but I’m definitely experiencing some wear and tear. It’s more pronounced on the physical side, but there’s a bit of mental sluggishness as well, especially in the morning.
So I’ve taken to a nice little routine to get my synapses firing. Just like I need to stretch a bit to get my creaky knees limbered up, I find this 20 minutes or so of brain gaming to be a good way to build
Spend time in a city in summer and you can feel the urban heat rising from the pavement and radiating from buildings. Cities are generally hotter than surrounding rural areas, but even within cities, some residential neighborhoods get dangerously warmer than others just a few miles away.
Within these “micro-urban heat islands,” communities can experie
Artificial intelligence has changed the way science is done by allowing researchers to analyze the massive amounts of data modern scientific instruments generate. It can find a needle in a million haystacks of information and, using deep learning, it can learn from the data itself. AI is accelerating advances in
The images and testimony coming from the public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol are shocking and horrifying for many people. But they’re also bringing a surge of traffic to Donald Trump’s Twitter-clone
Facebook is pivoting. Again.
The Verge‘s Alex Heath reports that top brass at the social giant, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, ordered workers to rejigger the core piece of the Facebook app, the Feed, to look and act more like TikTok’s “For You” page. Not surprisingly, TikTok poses a significant threa
Welcome to the long and hot summer of 2022. Hopefully workloads will lighten a bit, COVID-19 caseloads will
So you’re paying for high-speed internet service but it doesn’t feel very speedy at all. It might be your Wi-Fi connection, not your internet service provider.
While there are several for-cost ways to improve your wireless connection—new routers, improved antennas, signal boosters—here are a few things to try before you spend any cash.
Move your wireless router
Step one is to try repositioning your modem. If you’re not sure which box t
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I spend a couple hours each day typing out emails, documents and journal entries. In this post I’m sharing some useful little writing aids I like, following up an earlie
The sell-off in cryptocurrencies over the past few weeks has gotten so bad that calling it a mere “crash” apparently doesn’t quite cut it anymore. Instead, as the CEO of cryptoexchange Binance
The tech antitrust debate in Washington, D.C., is coming to a head, with Senate leadership likely to bring new antitrust legislation to a full floor debate as soon as this month. At issue are a pair of bills cosponsored and championed by Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat: the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, whic