Science & Technology

In 2018, scientists observed bright radar reflections under the polar cap. At that time, scientists thought they were looking at liquid water. But, a new study of the red planet by the University of Texas at Austin suggests that those radar reflections are just a dusty mirage. The reflections matched volcanic plains found all over…

AT&T said Monday that it’s rolling out multi-gigabit fiber to consumers across 70 cities, and simplifying the company’s existing metro pricing to boot. Customers in parts of Atlanta, Dallas, and Los Angeles now have the option to choose symmetrical 2Gbps or 5Gbps fiber, the company said Monday. (Symmetrical plans mean that customers receive the same…

Have you finally reached the point where you can’t do without Windows 11? No problem—getting your hands on Microsoft’s latest operating system is straightforward.  You can obtain it one of three ways: waiting for Windows 10 to push it to you, triggering the download using an application, or creating installation media. We walk you through…

WD One of our favorite PCIe 4.0 SSDs is available at a solid price today. Amazon is selling the 2TB WD Black SN850 for $271, which is down from the usual price of $318. In our review back in November 2020, we called the WD Black SN850 “one of the very best consumer NVMe SSDs…

APC One of the most important things you can do to protect your data is to create a backup. However, once you’ve done that, you should also consider protecting your hardware in the event of a power surge. Right now, you can do that for a little bit less with Amazon’s one-day sale on APC…

Undervolting your graphics card can have significant improvements on its thermals while maintaining a high level of performance. This also translates to less power draw, less overall heat, and possibly a longer lifespan. We recently laid out why you should (or shouldn’t!) consider doing this in our article here. Generally speaking, it’s a safe process…

Google has attracted criticism from multiple quarters in its ascent to the pinnacle of the online advertising industry with the company currently in the crosshairs of governments’ antitrust authorities across the globe. Although, it is on the homefront where it, arguably, faces the most peril as since late 2020 the Department of Justice and an…

It also left publishers, platforms and influencers with questions they’re still trying to answer. Last year, BuzzFeed streamed more than 60 different live shopping events, 30 of which went live in the fourth quarter of 2021. The streams attracted over 4.4 million visitors, who watched more than 1.1 million minutes of content; BuzzFeed, which said…

As some publishers refrain from returning to in-person events just yet, they are employing their virtual events to aid another direct revenue source: subscriptions.The Washington Post launched its first event series exclusively for print and digital subscribers on Jan. 18. The Information is also adding to its subscriber-only events this month, with programming created for…

In 2013, Alison Morra was only two months into her career at Inkhouse public relations agency before learning she was pregnant. She was excited and nervous, but the pregnancy never came to be. And because Morra was so new to the company, she said, she didn’t say anything to her boss about the miscarriage or needing…