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For Paul Anka, repair always seemed the obvious and only option. Growing up in Romania in the 1990s, he fondly remembers his grandfather’s workshop –… Read More »Open-source your blender to fight electronic waste | WIRED
When it launched its first rocket in 1963, India was a poor country pursuing the most advanced technology in the world. That projectile, whose nose… Read More »India’s aerospace industry is catching up fast
Researchers say nearly 336,000 devices exposed to the internet remain vulnerable to a critical vulnerability in firewalls sold by Fortinet as administrators have yet to… Read More »336,000 servers remain unpatched against critical Fortigate vulnerability
Mark Zuckerberg has long wanted to dislodge Twitter and provide the central place for online public conversation. Yet Twitter has remained stubbornly irreplaceable. That hasn’t… Read More »Meta unveils ‘Threads’ app to use on Twitter
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As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis begins his presidential run, one of the main pillars of his message is “holding awakened corporations accountable,” as a fundraising… Read More »As DeSantis campaigns, Disney sees a long road ahead
Ask Me Anything (AMA) has been a staple of Reddit that has contributed to the popularity of the social media platform. It produced some unique,… Read More »AMAs are the latest casualty in Reddit’s API war
A new publishing house began courting self-published romantic writers earlier this year. The pitch, delivered in a generic email, was impersonal and formal. The terms… Read More »TikTok sells a lot of books. Now the owner wants to publish them too.
