June 3, 2021 Neill Blomkamp’s Demonic Movie Definitely Has Demons in It, I Guess? It’s been quite a while since District 9's Neill Blomkamp has directed a feature-length film—not since 2015's poorly received Chappie, in fact. That will…
June 3, 2021 ECB: Digital Euro to Boost Global Appeal of European Money, Fight ‘Artificial Currencies’ Bitcoin News The digitization of traditional currencies like the euro has the potential to increase their international appeal, the European Central Bank says in…
June 3, 2021 Facebook Wants Your Thoughts and Prayers Facebook’s found a new way to capitalize on the thoughts, prayers (and data) from the religious side of its user base. On Thursday, the…
June 3, 2021 IOTA Foundation launches 2.0 ‘Nectar’ DevNet to address questions of centralization IOTA has had a bumpy ride, to say the least. Consider this, from being ranked as high as 4th on CoinMarketCap’s charts once, the…
June 3, 2021 DOJ to Treat Ransomware Hacks Like Terrorism Now: Here’s the Full Memo The U.S. Department of Justice plans to take a much harsher tack when pursuing cybercriminals involved in ransomware attacks—and will investigate them using similar…
June 3, 2021 Donald ***** Jr. Is Now on Cameo, Wishing the Dumb Libs Happy Birthday (NOT) Donald ***** Jr. has pivoted to the personalized celebrity video app Cameo because, as all relevant people do, he understands that nobody’s time on…
June 3, 2021 Climate tech is about to fly commercial Hiring private contractors to sample greenhouse gases from the air is an important aspect of NOAA’s climate research. Here, Paolo Wilczak pilots a sampling…
June 3, 2021 Evernote adds task management tools for personal projects You can use the one-time king of note-taking apps to manage personal projects with the introduction of a new feature called Tasks. via Engadget…
June 3, 2021 Disney’s ‘First Openly Gay’ Characters, Ranked (by How Embarrassed Disney Should Feel) Disney’s history with queer representation on-screen is, diplomatically, dicey at best. The company’s slow arc toward introducing LGBTQIA+ characters in major roles and tentpole…
June 3, 2021 Covered in Martian Muck, NASA’s InSight Lander Tries to Tidy Itself Up The dust piled up everywhere. Pushed around by the Martian winds, it stifled the InSight lander, whose solar panels—the source of its power—have been…