Technology
Humans aren’t the only primates with a medicine cabinet, it seems. In a new paper published today, scientists document a male orangutan named Rakus using a plant with known medicinal properties to help heal his facial wound. While there have been other recent accounts of animals using medicine in the wild, this appears to be … Read more
A controversial push by European Union lawmakers to legally require messaging platforms to scan citizens’ private communications for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) could lead to millions of false positives per day, hundreds of security and privacy experts warned in an open letter Thursday. Concern over the EU proposal has been building since the Commission … Read more
Bose Bose is launching the SoundLink Max for preorder, a $399 portable speaker that boasts more power and nearly double the battery life of the company’s popular SoundLink Flex. Orders begin shipping on May 16. Available in two colors, blue dusk and black, the Bose SoundLink Max comes with a removable rope carrying handle that … Read more
The pandemic sucked. Four years ago we were all stuck at home, and would continue being stuck at home for months on end. With all of us trapped in our houses, some products experienced a serious COVID-19 bump. Grocery delivery services absolutely blew up, as did Zoom and the . The same goes for Peloton … Read more
See at Now Now Watch the Premier League in the UK from £12 With Chelsea’s dreams of European qualification in doubt and Tottenham’s hopes of a top-four finish fading, Thursday’s English Premier League meeting between these two bitter London rivals is one that neither side can afford to lose. With fourth-placed Aston Villa now a … Read more
Image: Hot Toys Last week Hot Toys surprised Star Wars fans with a two-for-one reveal that the toymaker would start to dip into the world of Star Wars “Legends”—the contemporary name for the galaxy far, far away’s former canon in the Expanded Universe. Now, it’s somehow topping that surprise even further, with this: Dark Empire … Read more
Lacey Hunter thought all was well as she put her startup through the three-month Newchip accelerator. Then the organization filed for bankruptcy in May 2023. Things went from bad to worse later that year when she discovered warrants of her company — rights to buy an ownership stake — had become part of the proceedings, … Read more
Save on a lifetime license to Microsoft Office Pro and Windows 11 Pro via Stack Social. Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET No matter if you’re upgrading to a new laptop or setting yourself up for maximum functionality at school, work or your home office, access to Microsoft Office and Windows are often necessities for getting anything done on … Read more
Continuing the long American tradition of wealthy corporate overlords making union-busting comments, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy went on a media blitz in 2022 to warn of the workplace-altering terrors of labor unions. (Surely, it’s an unfortunate happenstance that his urgent PSA coincided with an uptick in organizing efforts at Amazon.) Sadly for Mr. Jassy, the … Read more
