Bose’s new earbuds sit… above your gaping sound holes?

Ahh, the wild world of earbuds. This really is too much for this time of year. What this actually means is Boses new earbuds dispense with the rubber tip you normally find on these devices. Instead, the Sport Open Earbuds use a contoured earhook that grasp your sound flaps outer ridge. According to the company, this is all achieved with virtually no skin contact. Sounds a lot like life during lockdown....

January 6, 2021 · 2 min · 335 words · Andrew Nelson

Don’t dox yourself by tweeting about data breaches

The following is perhaps the worst way to tweet about the incident. The user admits using his NetGalley password for several other accounts. While that tweet might have been a joke, this next one certainly isnt. There were other milder tweets, in which users admitted that their NetGalley account wasnt under their real name. But the NetGalley breach was already bad, to begin with. When revealing security breaches, most companies explicitly state the measures they have taken to protect users data....

January 6, 2021 · 2 min · 252 words · Emily Holmes

A beginner’s guide to data visualization with Python and Seaborn

Charts reduce the complexity of the data and make it easier to understand for any user. They are very powerful tools, and they have their audience. It is ideal for data scientists. Many great libraries are available for Python to work with data likenumpy,pandas,matplotlib,tensorflow. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Matplotlibis probably the most recognized plotting library out there, available for Python and other programming languages likeR. It is its level of customization and operability that set it in the first place....

January 5, 2021 · 3 min · 509 words · Christine Gamble

New radio signal excited alien hunters – but scientists are still skeptical

This has generated a flood of excitement in the press and among scientists themselves. It has been dubbed Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1 or simply BLC-1. The signal was present for the full observation, lasting several hours. It also was absent when the telescope pointed in a different direction. Artists impression of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. Kornmesser/wikipedia,CC BY-SA The signal was narrow-band, meaning it only occupied a slim range of radio frequencies....

January 5, 2021 · 2 min · 344 words · Ryan Williamson

9 reasons why policymakers should tackle climate change with small-scale solutions

Massive amounts of public money are being mobilized to kickstart economies out of COVID-induced recessions. Many countries are allocating parts of their stimulus packages towards ensuring therecovery is green. There are many low-carbon ways to supply energy, provide mobility in cities and heat homes. These solutions vary on what we have called the granular-lumpy continuum. More granular options are relatively small in size, low in cost, and modular they scale through replication....

January 2, 2021 · 2 min · 312 words · Kellie Joyce

Google Chrome sucks — here’s why you should stop using it

In 2020, most browsers have adapted. Google Chrome has mainly kept itself on top of the food chain. They basically invented auto-search in the address bar. Ill use anything besides Google Chrome. And here are my reasons why. The RAM Chrome uses is insane Chrome is a memory beast. Unless your PC has 8 GB of RAM or hopefully a solid processor, it will hate Chrome. Ive seen games that dont use the RAM Chrome does....

January 2, 2021 · 2 min · 361 words · Raymond Lewis

Bad news for liars: Scientists discover an ethical and effective lie-detection method

Most people lie occasionally. The lies are often trivial and essentially inconsequential such as pretending to like a tasteless gift. But in other contexts, deception is more serious and can have harmful effects on criminal justice. From a societal perspective, such lying is better detected than ignored and tolerated. Unfortunately, it is difficult to detect lies accurately. Our technique is part of a new generation ofcognitive-based lie-detection methodsthat are being increasingly researched and developed....

January 1, 2021 · 2 min · 372 words · Nancy Barnett

Surprise! Beer cans are less polluting than glass bottles

But are the alternatives to plastic much better? Lets look at one example fizzy drinks. You might assume that plastic bottles are the least green option, but is that always the case? To find out, wecomparedfive different types of pressurized drinks containers. Here they are, ranked from worst to best. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. High temperatures are also needed to melt these materials, a process overwhelminglypowered by fossil fuels....

January 1, 2021 · 2 min · 378 words · Earl Benson

A comprehensive guide to Typescript for JavaScript developers

If you are a JavaScript developer, you must have heard about Typescript at one point or another. You will find answers to all these questions by the end of this article. Note: I may be a bit biased towards Typescript. Theres no project that I start where I prefer JS to Typescript. What is Typescript? it’s possible for you to think of Typescript as a language that provides an additional layer over JavaScript....

December 31, 2020 · 3 min · 501 words · Christina Williams

RIP Arecibo telescope — you’ll be missed

Development of the revolutionarytelescopecontinued for three years before work was completed. Observations of the Crab Nebula conducted in 1968 provided the first concrete evidence of the existence of neutron stars. Directed toward the star cluster M-13, this message tounknown intelligenceswill arrive at its target in roughly 25,000 years. The first-millisecond pulsar ever seen by astronomers was found by astronomers at Arecibo, rotating 642 times a second. were born, Arecibo imaged an asteroid for the first time in history....

December 31, 2020 · 2 min · 333 words · Monique Burke

The Kalashnikov CV-1 was meant to kill Tesla and impress Putin — but where is it?

Its not uncommon in the tech world for new product concepts to never make it to reality. Supposedly made by weapons maker, Kalashnikov. With an economy heavily reliant on oil and gas, Russia and low-emission vehicles dont go hand in hand. There arent many popular brands to have come out of the country, either. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Everyone seemed to prick up their ears and take note....

December 31, 2020 · 2 min · 284 words · Kevin Johnston

Is your product suffering from service design issues? Here’s how to find out

This articlewas written byTiffany Haleand originally published onBuilt In. Failure is more than a rite of passage when working in technology its a guarantee. Do users hate your proposed process flow? (No big deal, it was just a wireframe!) What is service design anyway? Often, when thinking of such products, we look to wildly successful examples like the iPhone. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. However, technology need not be at the heart of a successful product design....

December 30, 2020 · 3 min · 477 words · Andrew Phillips

The top 5 EVs you should be excited for in 2021

This past year was slated by some to be the year of the EV. Because 2021 will beanotheryear that we see many more exciting and futuristic EVs unleashed into the wild. Here are the ones were looking forward to most. In 2021, we should finally see the Rivian SUVs hit the roads. In the world of electric trucks, they could be a force to be reckoned with. The real reason were excited about this EV though is how it comes together as an entire package....

December 30, 2020 · 2 min · 336 words · Perry White