In May, Jair Renan, son of President Jair Bolsonaro, was banned from the platform after spreading Covid-19 misinformation and encouraging gamers to break social isolation. His father is also having a hard time communicating with the gaming crowd—once a solid foundation among his voters. “Anyone who watches gaymers knows... Read more

Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more The recent Log4j vulnerability has exposed systemic problems in how businesses, and the community at large, audit their software. Early indications show... Read more

The James Webb Space Telescope, in an artist’s rendering. See if you can spot the biggest mirror ever launched into space. NASA GSFC/CIL/Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The team behind the recently launched James Webb Space Telescope successfully finished unfolding the instrument’s distinctive golden mirror on Saturday, meaning the telescope is... Read more

Resetting your laptop is one of the most powerful munitions you’ve got in your troubleshooting armory. It puts your Windows, macOS, or Chrome OS computer back to the state it was in when you first got it home from the store, and that means you’ve got none of the... Read more

Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more By Pritesh Parekh, vice president of engineering, chief trust and security officer at Delphix We all know about the evils of ransomware,... Read more

Joe Biden is a self-professed “car guy.” As of late, he’s become an electric car guy. And he wants his fellow Americans to be electric car people too. Transportation is responsible for 29 percent of all US greenhouse gas emissions, and Biden’s ambitious climate policy, which aims to create... Read more

Google Saturday’s Google Doodle pays homage to the late Stephen Hawking, perhaps the most famous scientist of his time, who sought to explain the universe to millions. The renowned British theoretical physicist and cosmologist’s work focused on increasing our understanding of black holes — dying stars that’ve collapsed on... Read more

This week, we reported that Signal has gone forward with its controversial cryptocurrency integration. All of the encrypted messaging app’s users now have access to MobileCoin, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that US exchanges still don’t offer. The intent is to give monetary transactions the same protection from surveillance that Signal... Read more

The most exciting gadget of the year isn’t a TV that displays NFTs or a foldable tablet computer or anything related to the metaverse. It’s an autonomous tractor. More specifically, it’s the self-driving John Deere 8R tractor that can plow fields, avoid obstacles, and plant crops with minimal human... Read more