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A woman wearing a Microsoft Hololens and interacting with an invisible hologram that only she can see.
Internet

Microsoft’s new Mesh platform turns your remote coworkers into holograms

By Stan Horaczek

A person holding their phone and looking at a photo on Instagram.
Social Media

How to shoot great Instagram photos

By Harry Guinness

A computer with an Nvidia RTX 3060 graphics card installed.
Cryptocurrency

Nvidia’s latest effort to fix the graphics card shortage takes aim at crypto miners

By Stan Horaczek

Two friends taking a selfie.
Social Media

Make your own Instagram filters

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A model in a wine-red cutout dress on a beach
Social Media

Tech-savvy fashion forecasters already know what you’ll be wearing in two years

By Rachael Zisk

A stock chart on a computer screen
Cryptocurrency

Your brain is wired to regret missing the GameStop stock boom

By Stan Horaczek

A headshot of Jessica Rosenworcel, acting chair of the FCC.
Internet

The FCC is about to undergo a huge shift that could drastically affect the internet

By Stan Horaczek

A floating balloon from Project Loon.
Internet

RIP Loon, Google’s balloon-based cellular network

By Rob Verger

US Senator Bernie Sanders edited into a vintage Popular Science magazine cover to look like he's driving an experimental single-wheel motorcycle.
Internet

How to make a legendary meme

By John Kennedy

Live inauguration coverage on Twitch with emojis in the chat.
Internet

All the best ways to stream the Biden Inauguration

By Stan Horaczek

A line of protesters with signs standing in a street, just feet from a line of police with riot shields.
Social Media

How to save important photos and video from the web

By John Kennedy

Twitter icon on a smartphone with other app icons.
Social Media

Social media companies are done with Trump. Now what?

By Stan Horaczek

a person staring at a smartphone screen
Social Media

How your daily screen time affects your wellbeing

By Claire Maldarelli

Replika AI chatbots
Social Media

Old text messages are letting people chat with the dead

By Davide Sisto/MIT Press Reader

person using google search
Internet

Could Apple build a search engine that competes with Google?

By Hamza Mudassir/The Conversation

League of Kitchens instructor Mab Abbasgholizadeh teaches her students how to make classic Persian dishes, including crispy tahdig rice.
Internet

Multicultural cooking classes offer up something tasty on Zoom

By Max Falkowitz/Saveur

Mark Zuckerberg Congress
Social Media

State and federal officials want to break up Facebook. What does that mean for you?

By Stan Horaczek

Person at computer with cat
Internet

Find the perfect internet speed for you

By Whitson Gordon

Spotify Wrapped 2020 playlists
Internet

Take a look back at your internet and streaming habits for 2020

By Stan Horaczek

Nvidia Maxine
Internet

Nvidia’s new streaming tech deep fakes your face to save on bandwidth

By Stan Horaczek

Social media congressional hearing
Social Media

This clip is all you need to know about the latest Congressional hearing on social media

By Stan Horaczek

The moon is in line to get LTE.
Internet

The moon will soon have cell service

By Charlie Wood

Browser
Internet

The best internet browsers you’ve never heard of

By David Nield

TikTok Banned
Social Media

TikTok and WeChat aren’t getting banned after all—but that could change

By Stan Horaczek

People looking at smartphone and working out
Social Media

Use TikTok to build the perfect workout

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Microsoft video authenticator
Internet

Microsoft’s new video authenticator could help weed out dangerous deepfakes

By Stan Horaczek

TikTok Will Smith
Social Media

Go ahead and use TikTok all you want

By Rob Verger

Zoom party
Internet

How to host a virtual party that’s absolutely lit

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

A laptop and iPhone with a beanie and sunglasses laid on top
Internet

Incognito and private mode offer fewer protections than you think

By Cranor & Habib/The Conversation

Tech congressional hearing
Social Media

Let’s watch some of the world’s biggest tech CEOs speak in front of Congress

By Stan Horaczek

Microsoft noise suppression
Social Media

AI is here to mask barking dogs and screaming kids from your video calls

By Stan Horaczek

Twitter Trump executive order
Social Media

How Trump’s executive order targeting social media may affect you

By Stan Horaczek

a person holding a phone with the Uber app's "call security" button displayed
Social Media

Get to know the safety features on Uber, Tinder, and other popular apps

By David Nield

The Audubon Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans let Marina, the African penguin, take a mini safari. Here she check out a hypomelanistic crocodile safely from the other side of the glass.
Social Media

Zoos and aquariums are letting their animals go on adventures during the shutdown. But should they?

By Sara Kiley Watson

YouTube Music
Internet

Google Play Music is going away, but migrating your library is surprisingly simple

By Stan Horaczek

Facebook Messenger Rooms tiled view
Social Media

Facebook Messenger Rooms wants to be the new Zoom

By Stan Horaczek

Kid on laptop
Internet

13 free online resources to educate and entertain your kids

By Sandra Gutierrez G.

Laptop on bed
Internet

Porn is helping people cope with the pandemic

By Joshua B. Grubbs/The Conversation

Smartphone uses
Internet

Apple and Google plan to track COVID-19 using your phone’s Bluetooth

By Stan Horaczek

Pinterest coronavirus search results
Social Media

How social media companies are trying to fight coronavirus misinformation

By Stan Horaczek

Zoom video chat
Internet

Check these privacy and security settings before your next Zoom video chat

By Stan Horaczek

Internet servers
Internet

With internet usage surging, companies are scrambling to keep it all running

By Stan Horaczek

Starlink satellites streak across telescope images of the stars.
Internet

Elon Musk insists his satellite swarm won’t interfere with science. This model disagrees.

By Charlie Wood

Code Orange stream
Internet

13,000 fans moshed at home as a metal band streamed from an empty venue

By Stan Horaczek

four champagne glasses full of colorful liquid
Social Media

Teen bootleggers are making dangerous booze on TikTok

By Molly Glick

A man holds a smartphone with the YouTube app.
Internet

YouTube science videos are riddled with scams, plagiarism, and misinformation

By Dan Garisto/Undark

a photo of an Apple Mac laptop screen with the web browsers Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera all in the task bar
Internet

Some browsers are better for your laptop than others

By David Nield

Woman looking at phone
Social Media

Making new online accounts is the ultimate privacy power play

By David Nield

a man holds a phone in his hands on the subway
Internet

Coronavirus shows our health agencies are ill prepared for fake news

By Kat Eschner

a person with a watch in a business environment using a laptop on a desk
Internet

Twelve ways to make your new browser tabs more exciting

By David Nield

screenshot of guy dipping finger in soy sauce then putting it on his testicles
Social Media

No, you can’t taste anything with your testicles

By Sara Chodosh

probiotic bottle being tipped into someone's hand
Internet

Google results for probiotics are totally unreliable

By Molly Glick

Paul Rudd says "Hey, look at us."
Internet

Ten GIFs that really got us through 2019

By Jason Lederman

Coin pusher machine.
Internet

YouTube rabbit holes to suck up your free time

By Stan Horaczek

prescription bottle of oxycodone
Social Media

Social media posts might be able to help researchers understand and predict opioid overdoses

By Nicole Wetsman

Meet the flat-Earthers of the modern era
Social Media

Meet the flat-Earthers of the modern era

By Mara Hvistendahl

How to make your Facebook account more private
Social Media

How to make your Facebook account more private

By Harry Guinness

The world is finally fighting back against Facebook
Social Media

The world is finally fighting back against Facebook

By Leighton Andrews/The Conversation

FaceApp is a privacy nightmare, but so is almost everything else you do online
Internet

FaceApp is a privacy nightmare, but so is almost everything else you do online

By Stan Horaczek

This typhoon-resistant facility in Guam will power the tubes that give us the internet
Internet

This typhoon-resistant facility in Guam will power the tubes that give us the internet

By Rob Verger

Google and YouTube are giving you more control over your data and recommendations
Social Media

Google and YouTube are giving you more control over your data and recommendations

By Rob Verger

Bitcoin mining’s carbon emissions are on-par with that of a small country
Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin mining’s carbon emissions are on-par with that of a small country

By Kat Eschner

How to stay productive when there’s no internet
Internet

How to stay productive when there’s no internet

By Whitson Gordon

All the new features Facebook announced at the 2019 F8 conference
Social Media

All the new features Facebook announced at the 2019 F8 conference

By Stan Horaczek