This week, the masses are up in arms with the news that entrepreneur, fashionista, and reality TV star Kylie Jenner uses her $70 million luxury private jet to take short-haul flights. But short-haul travel is far from an anomaly as we usher in an era of eVTOL
In a huge blow to Big Tech, the EU is stepping up to regulate their long-criticized, monopolist market strategies. On Monday, the European Council adopted the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a set of new rules to create fairer online competition. The act aims to establ
This article was originally published on .cult by Eli McGarvie. .cult is a Berlin-based community platform for developers. We write about all things career-related, make original documentaries, and share heaps of other untold developer stories from around the
One of the world’s most popular social media platforms, TikTok, is now host to a steady stream of deepfake videos. Deepfakes are videos in which a subject’s face or body has been digitally altered to make them look like someone else – usually a famous person. One
One of the biggest criticisms against EVs is that they’re not as green as you might think due to the CO2 emissions produced by their lithium-ion batteries. These occur during the extraction of lithium and during the battery’s manufacturing process. However, new rese
It sure looks like a lot of fun when we see videos of astronauts floating around in zero-gravity environments. But did you ever stop to think what prolonged weightlessness does to the human body? We’ll spare you the details, but suffice to say it isn’t pretty. And
During the lockdown, my 65-year-old mother did something that actually shocked me. She started going on to TikTok so she could watch and follow her favorite “Dancing Dadi” – which means grandmother in Hindi. I was genuinely taken aback to discover that my mother – who
IBM today announced a new strategy for the implementation of several “error mitigation” techniques designed to bring about the era of fault-tolerant quantum computers. Up front: Anyone still clinging to the notion that quantum circuits are too noisy for useful co
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has published thousands of pages of previously unreleased documents, which reveal how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is buying access to the location data of millions of Americans’ cell phones. The warran
As a communications professional with more than 20 years in the industry, I can say with certainty that one of the most refreshing and hopeful changes I have seen in the past few years is the increasing authenticity and focus on social activism from tech organizations bi