FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Former US Vice President Mike Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi preside over a joint session of Congress to count the Electoral College votes of the 2020 presidential election in the House Chamber in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. - Bloomberg via Getty Images, FILE
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday went further than he has...
JANUARY 30, 2022
A new model of “Federated Digital Identities” has been proposed by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. With this model citizens can interlink, store and access multiple digital IDs via one unique ID. From PAN card to driving license, every important document can be kept under the unique ID.
This umbrella digital identity will “empower” citizens by...
JANUARY 30, 2022
An Amazon drone flies in front of the company logo. Peter Endig/picture alliance via Getty Images
Patrick McGah worked as a drone engineer for Amazon from late 2019 to April 2021.
In an op-ed for Insider, McGah said he was told he was a low performer at work.
McGah says a manager told him to "get more...
JANUARY 30, 2022
Rocks, cliff faces, quarries gouged in earth. Not much for most of us to look at, but for paleontologist Andrew Knoll, they are radiant with meaning, telling a story he says is far grander and stuffed with more plot twists than any Hollywood blockbuster.
That tale is Earth's history -- how the planet went from a rock covered...
JANUARY 30, 2022
A Yellow-Rumped Warbler in flight. - Hal Beral/Getty Images
Thanks to a combination of sensing the Earth's magnetic field through vision and an in-built compass that allows them to orient themselves according to magnetic intensity, migratory birds don't have much trouble finding their way.
Those biological gadgets, known as magnetoreception, allow birds to not only know which direction to head in on...
JANUARY 30, 2022
Elon Musk in 2021 at a press event on the grounds of the Tesla Gigafactory near Berlin. Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images
19-year-old Jack Sweeney runs a Twitter account that tracks Elon Musk's private jet.
Musk offered Sweeney $5,000 to remove it and give advice on how to make his jet less trackable.
Sweeney told Insider...
JANUARY 30, 2022
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Donald Trump’s promise to pardon supporters who attacked the US Capitol on January 6 2021 is “the stuff of dictators”, Richard Nixon’s White House counsel has warned.
Trump made the promise at a rally in Conroe, Texas, on Saturday.
“If I run and if I win,” he said, referring to the 2024 presidential...
JANUARY 30, 2022
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Consumers would be able to easily compare rates for home and mobile broadband service under plans given an initial green light by the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday.
The proposed new rule would require broadband providers such as AT&T Inc. and Comcast Corp. to show consumers standardized price data similar to the window stickers on...
JANUARY 30, 2022
Modern TVs gather data that can be monetized. How much of this surveillance can you avoid without turning your smart TV dumb?
Watching TV feels like a benign pastime, but as all TVs become “smart” – connected to the internet via your router – they are gaining the ability to watch you too. As soon as you switch...
JANUARY 29, 2022
If you've ever tried to make new friends as an adult, you'll probably see why loneliness is at an all-time high. Making new friends feels just plain hard.
In school, making friends can be as simple as going on the monkey bars together. But as adults, making, developing and maintaining friendships can be much more difficult.
This matters, because...
