Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast As an older millennial, I received my first cell phone during my senior year of high school. I still remember the novelty of discovering how easy and seamless it was to contact people and download apps. At the time, no one fully understood how addictive these technologies were. Nowadays, … Read more
Alleged pedophile ‘LuvEmYoung’ had tried to remain anonymous in chat rooms where he bragged about sexually abusing children. He covered his tracks by using TeleGuard, an encrypted Swiss messaging app, to share a video of himself with a sleeping 4-year-old boy last month, according to a criminal affidavit. But the FBI had a new strategy. … Read more
In this photo illustration, the Google Gemini logo is seen in the background of a silhouette of a person using a notebook. (Photo illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Credit – Rafael Henrique-SOPA Images/LightRocket EEarlier this month, Google released its highly anticipated system ‘Gemini’, giving users access to AI image generation technology for … Read more
The American economy is doing well and hundreds of thousands of jobs are being created every month. In a stunning burst of hiring to start the year, the country added 353,000 jobs in January, with the highest interest rates in two decades, introduced in part by the US Federal Reserve to cool hiring and spending. … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After two false starts, the billionaires behind a plan to build an environmentally friendly city from scratch are behind schedule and off to a bumpy start in putting their proposal before California voters in November . Former Goldman Sachs trader Jan Sramek unveiled in January his closely guarded ballot initiative for … Read more
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — With flashy celebrity ads and promises of big discounts, a store in Iran’s capital had offered consumers in the Islamic Republic one of the country’s most popular products: an iPhone due out in 2021. But instead of getting their hands on the handsets, police and prosecutors in Iran allege customers were … Read more
DUNE’s neutrino detectors will be located a mile underground in South Dakota.Matthew Kapust, Sanford Underground Research Facility Neutrinos are tiny particles that may hold secrets to some of the universe’s greatest mysteries. The DUNE project hopes to learn more about these ‘ghost particles’, which are difficult to study. To do this, the project will emit … Read more
NEW YORK (AP) — Leap year. It’s a delight for the calendar and math nerds among us. So how did it all start and why? Take a look at some of the numbers, history, and lore behind the (not quite) every-four-year phenomenon that adds a 29th day to February. BY THE NUMBERS The math is … Read more