A recent social media post by an Aussie received a deluge of replies and comments. His comment? I’m so f***ing tired of ‘tech’ being used to solve an ‘issue’ but only making everything worse and more inconvenient for everybody. His comment was in response to going to a restaurant and Read more…
Many Americans want to abolish Daylight Saving Time. Since 2018, nearly all states have passed or entertained legislation that would drop the twice-a-year time shift. And 19 states have passed laws or resolutions in support of year-round daylight saving time, according to data from the National Conference of State Legislatures. Read more…
Based on data The Post collected for thousands of school districts across the country — reveals that a dramatic rise in home schooling at the onset of the pandemic has largely sustained itself through the 2022-23 academic year, defying predictions that most families would return to schools that have dispensed Read more…
CNN decries “false and bizarre” news stories being published by Microsoft on MSN.com, “one of the world’s most trafficked websites and a place where millions of Americans get their news every day.” Microsoft’s decision to increasingly rely on the use of automation and artificial intelligence over human editors to curate Read more…
News consumption hit a tipping point around the globe during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, with more people turning to social media platforms such as TikTok, YouTube and Instagram than to websites maintained by traditional news outlets, according to the latest Digital News Report by the Reuters Institute Read more…
A top scientist has proposed a new way to reconcile the two different ways that our clocks keep time. Meet — wait for it — the leap minute. Later this month, delegations from around the world will head to a conference in Dubai to discuss international treaties involving radio frequencies, Read more…
Researchers at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus have found that rats posses an imagination. A team from the Lee and Harris labs developed a novel system combining virtual reality and a brain-machine interface to probe a rat’s inner thoughts. They found that, like humans, animals can think about places and objects Read more…