I’ve always been a big fan of aphorisms. They act like tiny little subroutines that help me guide my life. For example, there’s “measure twice cut once,” which I try to keep in mind when working in the shop. Another workshop phrase that works is “an ounce of prevention is ...

Twitter said on Wednesday it has taken actions on more than 500 accounts and reduced visibility of some hashtags in India in the past 10 days to comply with “several” orders from the Indian government after New Delhi threatened to take action against executives with American social network for not ...

Image: SoftBank Group SoftBank Group’s CEO Masayoshi Son has labelled his company a “golden goose” in response to its Vision Funds bouncing back from a record loss last year to post profit of ¥844 billion during the third quarter. According to Son, the ¥1 trillion year-on-year turnaround was due to ...

Image: ZDNet A web hosting company named No Support Linux Hosting announced today it was shutting down after a hacker breached its internal systems and compromised its entire operation. According to a message posted on its official site [archived], the company said it was breached on Monday, February 8. The ...

5G has been on a tear the last few years as wireless operators and smartphone manufacturers have made a marketing push touting higher bandwidth and lower latency for users. Yet, for all the attention that 5G gets from consumers, some of the most important new applications for the next-generation wireless ...

Maya is dedicated to making it easier for women to get healthcare, especially for sensitive issues like reproductive and mental health. Now the startup, based in Bangladesh and incorporated in Singapore, is expanding into new countries. Maya announced today it has raised $2.2 million in seed funding, which it said ...

Image: Joshua C. Greenberg, MD, Mahmoud R. Altawil, MD,Gurjit Singh, MD The new magnetic circular array introduced in iPhone 12 smartphones last year to support the MagSafe charging technology can disrupt implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) medical devices. The warning comes from three cardiac electrophysiology doctors from the Henry Ford Heart and ...

Several high-level Apple services are experiencing issues and outages on Wednesday morning, Apple has confirmed. These issues are impacting a number of consumer-facing services, including Apple Music and Radio, Apple Books, and the App Store platforms across both iOS devices and Mac. For some users, the services are down. For ...

VerSe Innovation, the parent firm of popular news and entertainment app DailyHunt and short video app Josh, said on Monday the startup has raised over $100 million as part of its Series H financing round from Qatar Investment Authority and Glade Brook Capital Partners. The announcement follows another $100 million ...

We crawled into an abandoned school bus, trespassed through dilapidated hallways, dodged fleeting thunderstorms, and wandered the empty streets of Chinatown late into the evening. For two summery weeks, I couldn’t have been happier. New York City was in lockdown. I’d been quarantined in my dinky apartment, disheartened and restless. ...