The summer of 2024 started less than a month ago, but it’s already off to a scorching start. Phoenix has already topped 112 degrees and the year’s first Heat Dome arrived weeks ago.
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Here are some of the support tools I relied on this morning to get work done.
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At this point, video chatting has become a common part of our day-to-day lives—and yet, when you really stop and think about it, it tends to be a pretty awful experience.
Whether you’re using Meet, Zoom, or any other such service, starting a virtual face-to-face chat inevitably involves a lot of annoyances. You’ve gotta download something, create an account or sign in, and share all sorts of personal info with the company behind it.
Plus, you’ve gotta hope (or, more likel
When Jungkook—a member of Korean pop group BTS—went to an Ariana Grande concert in 2019, he said it was partially to learn from her performance. Five years later, Grande has become the pupil of BTS by joining Weverse, the fan-engagement platform that’s helped the K-pop group grow the ranks of its global fandom, known as ARMY.
There’s a phrase that’s been showing up on social media in recent months: “If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.” The phrase relates to travelers’ growing anxieties about flying on certain Boeing planes.
Those anxieties began early this year after a Boeing 737 Max 9 plane, Alaska Airlines Flight 1282, lost a door shortly after takeoff. The incident reminded travelers of the twin Boeing 737 Ma
When it comes to cars, the science is clear: We are going to have to start swapping out our gas-guzzling automobiles for their electric counterparts. Yet those cleaner alternatives are more expensive, less reliable, and still cause stressful
Fuzzy Khosrowshahi is Notion’s new chief technology officer, helping the once-tiny startup scale its engineering team now that it’s a $10 billion behemoth. He joined in December after three years at Slack and 15 at Google, where he helped launch Google Sheets. With the launch of Notion Calendar, Sites, and AI connectors, Notion’s engineering team has been quickly
User Nara Smith has gone viral once again, this time for showing people how to make a homemade sunscreen. But dermatologists say you’re better off—and will be a lot safer—buying some from the store instead.
The video shows Smith’s husband, Lucky Blue Smith, concocting a mixture of coconut oil, she
When Meta launched Threads last July, it saw an immediate tidal wave of interest: 100 million people signed up for the social network within days, prompting many to wonder if CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s new gadget would unseat Elon and Twitter once and for all.
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On Thursday, while Americans are heading to backyard barbecues, residents in the U.K. will be heading to the polls to vote on who will be their ruling government for the last five years.
The Labour party, which has been in opposition for 14 years, appears locked on to win with a massive majority. But a Labour victory might not lead to much change in the country’s approach to its tech sector.
In some ways, the left-leaning Labour’s governance would likely continue po