Month: July 2022
The best trail cameras for keeping an eye on your backyard wildlife
Daffodils flourishing in sidewalk cracks, pigeons and starlings congregating on overhead power lines, rats living in your apartment walls — no matter how urban humans strive to make our environments, nature’s flora and fauna will make themselves right at home next to us. Sometimes that’s cute, like Pizza Rat, sometimes…
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Quell the Heat With Our Favorite Window Air Conditioners
These WIRED-tested AC units have been lodged into our windows and cooling our homes for months, if not years. Source
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Can hydrogen fuel cells power Microsoft data centers?
Microsoft has reached a new milestone in its effort to ditch diesel in favor of cleaner energy at its data centers. The company announced today that it successfully tested a hydrogen fuel cell system powerful enough to replace a traditional diesel-powered backup generator at a large data center. As part…
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Peacock suffers another huge loss as subscribers stall, are more cancelations on the way?
Audio player loading… Peacock, the streaming service owned by Universal Pictures’ parent company Comcast, has posted another huge set of losses as it announces its latest subscriber figures. According to Variety (opens in new tab), the streaming service ended the second quarter of 2022 with a subscriber base of 13…
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It’s TikTok’s World. Instagram Just Lives in It
This week, we examine Instagram’s move to prioritize Reels—a feature copied from TikTok—and whether that will help or hinder the platform’s growth. Source
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The Morning After: A Filipino politician is trying to make ghosting a criminal offense
Ghosting can hurt, for sure. When someone suddenly cuts off contact, doesn’t show up at a date or just unmatches on one of those many dating apps, it sucks. One Filipino lawmaker is trying to make it stop, which could be a tall order. Arnolfo Teves Jr., a member of…
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