
Boeing 737 Max 9 jetliners will carry passengers in the United States again, starting this weekend, for the first time since they were grounded after a panel blew out of the side of one of the planes. Alaska Airlines plans to resume flights with its Max 9s on Friday, and United aims to follow suit on Sunday. Those are the only two U.S. airlines that operate this particular model of the Boeing 737.
After seeing video of the frightening flight of a plane with a gaping hole in its side

Young people may be digital natives, but many of them aren’t equipped to deal with the increasing onslaught of disinformation and deepfakes appearing in their social media feeds.
A growing number of states think they have an antidote: media literacy education.
The goal of media literacy, sometimes called digital citizenship or information literacy, is to help students think critically about the news that is presented to them. Media-literate students also should be a

When tech companies design their products, they usually think of younger generations first. After all, these are the people most likely to become long-term, recurring customers—and spread their love of the product far and wide on social media. But the cohort on the other end of the age spectrum—the elderly—frequently seems to be an afterthought.
“Help! My app went missing.”
When I visit with friends and family, particul

This month, meal delivery service Daily Harvest jumped on the Ozempic bandwagon.
The company’s January Jumpstart program—a meal collection designed to last for five days—includes a curated selection for customers on GLP-1 medication, such as Ozempic or Wegovy. Daily Harvest also

Hinge users looking to retire their profile might first want to consider one final trick: getting the app to give you a fresh start.
If you’re an adult human, chances are you or someone you know has used a dating app. But you also probably know that many people feel like “the apps” and the dating world have become, well, bad in recent years. That can be true also for Hinge, though the app remains hugely popular, especially in bigger cities.
Like other

When Aaliyah Iglesias was caught vaping at a Texas high school, she didn’t realize how much could be taken from her. Suddenly, the rest of her high school experience was threatened: being student council president, her role as debate team captain and walking at graduation. Even her college scholarships were at risk. She was sent to the district’s alternative school for 30 days and told she could have faced criminal charges.
Like thousands of other students around the c

Researchers say a rhinoceros was impregnated through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that they say might later make it possible to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies. The experiment was conducted with the less-endangered southern white rhino subspecies. Researchers created an embryo in a lab from an egg and sperm collected from rhinos and transferred into a southern white rhino surrogate mother at the Ol-Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.
 

After months of anticipation, Apple’s Vision Pro will finally be released to the public on February 2. Sales projections for the headset don’t look too rosy, but in truth Apple is playing the long game here. For that reason, it’s not judging success by raw revenue figures—not yet, at least.
The initial success of Apple’s Vision Pro may be judged on how it fares with the developer class, and whether those developers are impressed enough with the hea

For weeks, the U.K. has been gripped by the Post Office Horizon scandal. And now, as the rest of the world begins to pay attention to the odd incident caused by a tech glitch, more people are asking: What the hell is going on?
Here’s a quick guide to this wild, and ongoing, saga.
What went wrong at the Post Office?
Between 1999 and 2015, glitches in accounting software used by the U.K. Post Office meant that large amounts of money appear

Tesla is recalling nearly 200,000 vehicles in the U.S. because the backup camera may not function while the car is in reverse.
The recall covers certain Models Y, S and X from the 2023 model year. All are equipped with “Full Self-Driving” computer 4.0 and run software version 2023.44.30 through 2023.44.30.6 or 2023.44.100.
The company says in documents posted by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that software instability may pr