10 Reusable Products We Love (2021): Bags, Water Bottles, Straws, and More
Plastic is piling up in landfills and oceans; it’s even floating around in the air. It's sad and frustrating, and...
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The Delta Variant Has Warped Our Risk Perception
What was remarkable, for all the confusion of last winter, was how relatively simple that consistency was to find. In...
How to Turn Online Friends Into IRL Ones
In a 2018 study on friendship, Jeffrey Hall, an associate professor in communication studies at the University of Kansas, discovered...
A Failed Star Called ‘The Accident’ Puzzles Astronomers
Dan Caselden was up late on November 3, 2018, playing the video game Counter-Strike, when he made astronomy history. Every...
The 9 Best Chromebooks for Every Budget (2021)
Chromebooks come in a bewildering array of configurations. Sometimes even trying to decide which options to get on a single...
Everything Samsung Announced at Unpacked 2021: Galaxy Z Fold3, Z Flip3, Watch4, Buds2
The prices for both Samsung foldables have come down considerably, with the Fold3 going for $1,799 and the Flip3 starting...
Watch Out, Beyond Burgers—the Fungi Renaissance Is Here
Alternative proteins are booming. Supermarket chiller shelves are crammed with plant-based burgers, bacon, sausages, and their creatively named comrades: chik’ns,...
If YouTube Algorithms Radicalize Users, Data Doesn’t Show It
We've all seen it happen: Watch one video on YouTube and your recommendations shift, as if Google's algorithms think the...
The UN Climate Report: All Is Not Well—but All Is Not Lost
Today the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released an alarming new report on the state of the climate:...
Twitter’s Photo-Cropping Algorithm Favors Young, Thin Females
In May, Twitter said that it would stop using an artificial intelligence algorithm found to favor white and female faces...
