Water is a near-universal solvent, able to dissolve substances ranging from limestone to the sugar in your coffee. That chemical superpower originates, oddly enough, in water’s electrical properties. It can oppose and almost entirely cancel electric fields — including attractions among dissolved ions that might otherwise pull them together. Curiously, Read more…
Meta’s new Twitter competitor, Threads, is looking for ways to keep users interested after more than half of the people who signed up for the text-based platform stopped actively using the app, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told employees in a company town hall yesterday. Threads launched on July 5 Read more…
Meta reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday and said that its Reality Labs unit, which develops virtual reality and augmented reality technologies needed to power the metaverse, logged a $3.7 billion operating loss. Last year, Meta’s Reality Labs unit lost a total of $13.7 billion while bringing in $2.16 billion in Read more…
When Google announced that trackers would be able to tie in to its 3 billion-device Bluetooth tracking network at its Google I/O 2023 conference, it also said that it would make it easier for people to avoid being tracked by trackers they don’t know about, like Apple AirTags. Now Android Read more…
Congress is closer than ever to passing a pair of bills to childproof the internet after lawmakers voted to send them to the floor Thursday. The bills — the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and COPPA 2.0 — were approved by the Senate Commerce Committee Thursday by a unanimous voice Read more…
According to new research published Thursday, conservatives on Facebook during the 2020 presidential election were more isolated and saw more misinformation than the platform’s liberal users — though Facebook widely affected users’ political content in different ways. Slashdot reader RUs1729 shared one of the four peer-reviewed studies, appearing in the Read more…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has implemented new rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose any cyberattacks considered material incidents within four business days of discovery. According to the Wall Street watchdog, material incidents are those that a public company’s shareholders would consider important “in making an investment Read more…