The current levels of dryness in the US Southwest and northwest Mexico haven’t been seen since medieval times.  NOAA/NIDIS For years, scientists have been wearily watching the trend toward megadrought in the American West, and now new data has helped clarify the severity of the situation. In the Southwest,... Read more

The recent movie Ghostbusters: Afterlife, directed by Jason Reitman, is a direct sequel to the two original Ghostbusters films from the 1980s. Fantasy author Christopher M. Cevasco found Afterlife to be an enjoyable return to the Ghostbusters universe. “The story itself was kind of threadbare, but I was willing... Read more

GamesBeat Summit 2022 returns with its largest event for leaders in gaming on April 26-28th. Reserve your spot here! Nintendo is going to destroy the legacy of Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball, and no one is going to do anything about it! The company announced that it is shutting down the... Read more

Getty Images Millions of WordPress sites have received a forced update over the past day to fix a critical vulnerability in a plugin called UpdraftPlus. The mandatory patch came at the request of UpdraftPlus developers because of the severity of the vulnerability, which allows untrusted subscribers, customers, and others... Read more

Affiliate linking is one of the most reliable ways to generate revenue from a blog or a popular website, and it remains a popular monetization strategy because of that. However, affiliate linking is far from perfect, and if you’re not careful, you could end up losing money because of... Read more

Its Presidents Day weekend, and plenty of major retailers are wasting no time rolling out the savings. There are tons of deals and sales that have kicked off already, covering everything from TVs to mattresses. We’ve rounded up some of the best Presidents Day offers out there at the... Read more

Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This week in AI, Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, announced plans to invest $125 million into AI research through his philanthropic venture, Schmidt Futures. Part of an initiative dubbed “AI2050,” the funding will aim... Read more

Nursing has always been considered a noble, worthwhile profession. But the pandemic has shown just how vital nurses can be to the health of a nation—or even the world. Yet many healthcare entities, especially those that are smaller or in underserved communities, face a serious shortage of nurses. From... Read more

Angela Lang/CNET Meta, the parent company of Facebook, is reportedly facing new whistleblower complaints accusing it of misleading investors about its efforts to fight climate change and COVID-19 misinformation.  The two new complaints were filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission this month by Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit... Read more

Stadia looks doomed. At the beginning of the month, a report from Business Insider detailed ongoing issues with Google’s troubled streaming platform. Apparently, Google is putting the consumer product on the back burner while it tries to sell the Stadia technology as a white-label service to power other companies’ cloud offerings.... Read more