Report: Meta ignored internal warnings that new tools could fuel child exploitation
A Wall Street Journal investigation has found that teams at Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram) knew that an Instagram subscription program might aid…
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Researchers make artificial limb that can feel
When Luke Skywalker famously got his hand lopped off, it wasn’t a big deal because the Jedi simply got a prosthetic hand and continued swinging his…
The dragon rules the zodiac
The Chinese zodiac proclaims 2024 to be one of the most prosperous and its all due to one mystical creature with the head of a camel, the neck of a snake…
These sounds have vanished
If you are of a certain age, you can close your eyes and hear the sound of a rotary dial phone. It’s one of the common sounds of the beginning of the 20th…
One square inch of silence still exists
Outside, a young person drives by with his car stereo booming a relentless ear-shattering boom, boom, boom. You wonder how long he himself will be able to…
April is the perfect month for a game of Scrabble in honor of this guy
Oh, the joy of picking that single Z out of the Scrabble pile just when you also have e b r and a, on a lovely triple word score. It’s those moments that…
It’s hard to throw things away
Maybe it is a ethic that has been instilled in us: Waste not, want not. Or maybe it’s just that even ordinary things can be imbued with memories. But…
When the worst happens, what should you say?
To her Facebook friends, it came as a shock. Above all the usual photos of the birds she snapped on her daily walks was a simple, yet devastating, post:…
A must for relatives of kids who love knock-knock jokes
Alert for uncles, aunts and grandparents: If there is a five-year-old in your life, learn some knock-knock jokes. Parents will no doubt have already…
‘Bird nesting’ may be better for kids after divorce
Mom and dad get divorced and the kids begin a nomadic existence, moving from one house to another on a regular schedule: Different beds, new friends,…