(CNN) – Whether you’ve been longing to admire Anthropologie’s Gleaming Primrose Mirror or have only recently caught your eye, one thing is certain: the stunning, French-inspired mirror is taking the internet by storm. It has become a ubiquitous fixture on social media platforms – especially during the pandemic when everyone was crouching at home looking … Read more
Vera Kutsenko and Hayley Leibson have incredible engineering pedigrees, but their latest endeavor is digging as much dirt as digging through lines of code. The two women founded Neverland, a home gardening startup that aims to be a marketplace that connects mom and pop stores to the explosion of amateur horticulturists that have sprung up … Read more
California and New York were among the states that administered Johnson & Johnson’s COVID vaccine on Sunday after their governors approved the resumption of use of the single-dose shot. Using the one-shot vaccine could speed up mass vaccinations as Americans get tired of wearing masks, and a new study shows indoor social distancing may not … Read more
Dutch politicians have just received a first hand lesson on the dangers of fake videos. According to NL Times and De Volkskrant, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Dutch Parliament was tricked into making a video call with someone using deepfake technology to impersonate Leonid Volkov (above), the chief of staff of Russian opposition leader … Read more
Ms. Berda, an early childhood educator at a university in Surabaya, said the Nanggala sailors’ wives were close to each other and shared WhatsApp groups and meals when their husbands were away. The camaraderie was something she understood growing up as the daughter of a naval officer, she said. An hour’s drive away, in the … Read more
Assistant Professor Melody Campbell prepares a sample in the Cryo-EM Laboratory for Shared Resources at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. (Fred Hutch photo) Dr. Melody Campbell was an undergraduate student when she first noticed the beauty and power of cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), a technique that uses extreme temperatures and an electron … Read more
(CNN) — We rounded up 10 staffers to put more than a dozen pairs of leggings to the test. Our testers (who wear a range of sizes and have some pretty strong opinions on leggings) judged each pair on quality, comfort, style and more. After weeks of testing, one stood out as the best … Read more
Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly newsletter for startups and markets. It’s based largely on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but it’s free and suitable for your weekend reading. A week ago, TechCrunch raised Pico’s $ 6.5 million funding round, describing it as “a New York startup helping online developers … Read more
Body camera footage and 911 audio released late Friday appeared to show a Virginia MP mistaken a black man’s cordless home phone for a gun before the MP repeatedly shot him. (April 24th)
An experimental Google Assistant feature, codenamed “Guacamole”, lets you issue voice commands without prefixing “Hey, Google”. That is, if the tech giant decides to give it a wide release. Android Police discovered the guacamole option in the settings of the latest beta version of the Google app, and others with devices running Android 11 discovered … Read more