Snapchat is now the latest platform to block President Donald Trump‘s account after Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. All these platforms barred Trump from posting new content after his posts were deemed to…
Month: January 2021
UK government to put ‘trust in teachers not algorithms’ on exam results after last year’s debacle
The British government is replacing this summer’s school-leaving exams in England with teacher assessments, after admitting that the algorithms used in 2021 “did not deliver what they needed.” “This year we’re going…
Here’s why the universe has more matter than antimatter
It’s one of the greatest puzzles in physics. All the particles that make up the matter around us, such electrons and protons, have antimatter versions which are nearly identical, but with mirrored…
After four years of waiting, Indians might finally get their taste of Tesla this year
After years of Elon Musk hinting at the idea, it seems Tesla is finally going to make inroads into India. According to an Economic Times report published at the end of December,…
This highly-rated app blocks annoying spam and robocalls is on sale
TLDR: RoboKiller Spam Call and Text Blocker doesn’t just shield you from 1.3 million scam phone numbers…it just might irritate spammers enough to leave you alone forever. The minute you end up…
Alas, thy Nintendo 3DS will no longer be thy Netflix main driver
No! No no no no! No no, noooooo. NO. NO NO. NOOOOOO. I, simply, CANNOT. Comrades, I hate to have to tell you this, but you’ll no longer be able to watch…
4 founders explain the biggest hurdles to flattening the climate curve in 2021
While a lot of our career, personal, and travel plans have been put on hold this year, there’s one thing we as a society cannot afford to put on hold: the fight…
Say hello to OpenAI’s DALL-E, a GPT-3-powered bot that creates weird images from text
OpenAI has unveiled a neural network known as DALL-E that converts text into striking images — like these pictures of a baby panda in a tutu wielding a lightsaber: Credit: OpenAICute —…
Don’t dox yourself by tweeting about data breaches
This year, NetGalley, the website that provides advanced e-copies of books to reviewers, sent its season’s greetings in a different tone. In an email to its users before Christmas Eve, the company…
Massachusetts copies California with gasoline car sales ban
The US State of Massachusetts is following in the footsteps of California with plans to ban the sale of new gasoline vehicles by 2035. State Governor Charlie Baker laid out the plans…