The Online Spider Market Is Massive—and Crawling With Issues
by Eric Niiler | May 19, 2022 | News | 0 Comments
Stewart says public interest in spiders and scorpions has exploded as people realize they are actually low-maintenance pets that don't need walking three times a day and can be kept in apartments or small homes without a backyard. “They’re fascinating...
Welcome to Stop the Steal, 2022
by The Editor | May 19, 2022 | News | 0 Comments
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz greets supporters after the primary race on May 17, 2022 in Newtown, Pa. Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images The votes in Pennsylvania aren’t all counted, and already President Trump is hinting that he might cry fraud...
Brexit Bites Britain, and Europe, Again
by The Editor | May 19, 2022 | News | 0 Comments
Remember Brexit? Yes, that one. Readers outside the U.K.—including in Europe—might be surprised to discover it’s still an issue. Britons voted to leave the European Union in 2016. Two general elections and two prime ministers later, the departure formally...
The Electric-Vehicle Unicorn Crash – WSJ
by The Editor | May 19, 2022 | News | 0 Comments
A parade of electric-vehicle startups have gone public in recent years and commanded multibillion-dollar valuations—Rivian, Nikola, Canoo, Lordstown, Fisker, Workhorse Group, Mullen Automotive and Lucid. Most had never sold a single car at their public debut....
Google TAG: Cytrox’s Predator Spyware Used to Target Android Users
by Lily Hay Newman | May 19, 2022 | News | 0 Comments
NSO Group and its powerful Pegasus malware have dominated the debate over commercial spyware vendors who sell their hacking tools to governments, but researchers and tech companies are increasingly sounding the alarm about activity in the wider...
‘Dredd’ Deserves a Better Place in Alex Garland’s Filmography
by Amos Barshad | May 19, 2022 | News | 0 Comments
On Friday, the 51-year-old English writer-director Alex Garland’s new movie, Men, opens in theaters. Garland’s not a celebrity auteur on the scale of your Martys, your Quentins, your PTAs. But for folks obsessed with twisty, discomforting, finely calibrated...
This Is Where Dirty Old Cars Go to Die
by Chris Stokel-Walker | May 19, 2022 | News | 0 Comments
With each passing year, emissions from cars keep rising. Global carbon emissions from passenger road vehicles measured 2.5 gigatonnes in 2000. By 2018, the most recent year for which data is available, that had increased to 3.6 gigatonnes. The reason? People...
The Almighty Squabble Over Who Gets to Name Microbes
by Matt Reynolds | May 19, 2022 | News | 0 Comments
IN DECEMBER 2009, a submarine plunged 2,000 meters into the Gulf of California and emerged clutching a whole new branch of life. The deep-sea craft hadn’t uncovered a new species of fish, or some hitherto unknown crustacean, but something much more profound. In...
Do People Caught on Ring Cameras Have Privacy Rights?
by Sarah Lageson | May 19, 2022 | News | 0 Comments
Big picture, there’s no legal issue with posting surveillance cam content. Experts agree that it is generally legal to post video footage captured in a public space where the subject of the video lacks a reasonable expectation of privacy. (Things get a bit...
This Is How It Feels to Build a Video Game and Watch It Die
by Mark Hill | May 19, 2022 | News | 0 Comments
Rautalahti stressed the value of digital preservation, although he sees fans and institutions like the Internet Archive as being more probable saviors than developers. “It really would be worthwhile to have some kind of effort to preserve these things. It might...
