Thelasko shares a report from The New York Times: In Pittsburgh, Memphis and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren’t Real.” On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren’t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral. Last month, Read more…
An anonymous reader shares a report: Four years running, we’ve been jazzed by the potential of HDMI 2.1 — the relatively new video connector standard that can provide variable refresh rates (VRR), automatic low latency connections (ALLM), and of course, a giant pipe with 48Gbps of bandwidth (and fixed rate Read more…
“Bitcoin mining is a process of competitively wasting electricity to guess a winning number every 10 minutes or so,” writes author David Gerard in Foreign Policy magazine. And he’s got an equally negative take on Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s experiment in making Bitcoin an official national currency alongside the U.S. Read more…
“Russian hackers have stolen and published the personal data of tens of thousands of employees…” reports the Australian Financial Review. Government officials have confirmed the breach — part of a ransomware attack — and say the stolen data may even include info on the country’s premier, according to an Australian Read more…
“A study in 2019 found that the spatial memory used for navigating through the world tends to be worse for people who’ve made extensive use of map apps and GPS devices…” reports NBC News. But that’s just the beginning, according to Adrian Ward, who studies psychology at the University of Read more…
In Pittsburgh; Memphis, Tennessee; and Los Angeles, massive billboards recently popped up declaring, “Birds Aren’t Real.” On Instagram and TikTok, Birds Aren’t Real accounts have racked up hundreds of thousands of followers, and YouTube videos about it have gone viral. Last month, Birds Aren’t Real adherents even protested outside Twitter’s Read more…
GO Transit website taken offline due to worldwide cyber threat The first GO Transit MP40 locomotive arrives at the platform in Toronto on Jan. 15, 2008. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld Published Saturday, December 11, 2021 7:41AM EST GO Transit’s website has been taken offline “out of an abundance of caution” Read more…