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Even tech companies that have promised to slash their greenhouse gas emissions have a big climate-related blind spot, according to a new report published by three environmental groups. With their cash and investments, Google, Apple, Meta, and other tech giants are indirectly financing fossil fuel companies. While these companies might have taken steps to cut down on pollution within their own operations and supply chains, the financial institutions they bank with still funnel Big Tech’s profits into heavily polluting…

Whenever possible, I like to use FaceTime Audio or WhatsApp instead of making regular phone calls. The people I’m calling see it like a normal phone call, but the audio quality is leaps and bounds better than a good old-fashioned phone call. But! It turns out I wasn’t even doing my internet calls the right way. Today, I learned that there’s a newish feature buried in the Control Center that instantly improves the quality of your microphone during calls, whether you’re audio-only or on video. It’s called Voice…

Every once in a while, Apple introduces a new OS for its Macs that provides us with brand new features. Apple’s OS X 10.10 Yosemite software introduced so many new features to users back in 2014. OS X had some old features that you might not know about that still exist today. Even now, with macOS Monterey, there are a ton of programs on your Mac computer that you may have not realized are there. Paint has never been easier to utilize. As Dave Winer pointed out on Scripting News (via The Loop), Apple’s Preview app…

Researchers have found over 1,700 asteroid trails in archived Hubble data from the last 20 years. While many of the asteroids are previously known, more than 1,000 are not. What good are another 1,000 asteroids? Like all asteroids, they could hold valuable clues to the Solar System's history.  As time passes and more and more telescopes perform more and more observations, their combined archival data keeps growing. Sometimes discoveries lurk in that data that await new analytical tools or renewed efforts from scientists…

By NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center May 16, 2022Hubble Space Telescope image of the spiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, which has the nickname, Hidden Galaxy. Credit: NASA, ESA, P. Sell (University of Florida), and P. Kaaret (University of Iowa); Image processing: G. Kober (NASA Goddard/Catholic University of AmericaSpiral galaxy IC 342, also known as Caldwell 5, is located approximately 11 million light-years from Earth. Hubble captured this sparkling, face-on view of the center of the galaxy, which…

You might think you’ve exhausted everything there is to watch on Netflix.The chances are, though, that there are probably a large quantity of films and TV shows you’ve never come across while searching through the streaming service’s extensive library.Unless you spend hours scrolling through, the titles that are highlighted are based on the previous things you’ve watched or added to your list.But, if you fancy watching something from a genre that isn’t available on Netflix’s limited selection, you won’t be able to find…

It’s hard to believe that it was just six years ago that Neflix commissioned its first original content – the political thriller House of Cards.At the time, it was a bold, audacious move, and it seemed almost puzzling that such big names (Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright) were willing to star in a… web-series?Now, though, just about every star is getting in on the action, and you can hardly move for Netflix original content.Which means, of course, that plenty of gems get lost in the noise. Every month, one or two Netflix…

The Pokémon world has always been full of secrets, rumors, and myths. Many of these legends turned out to be nothing more than fake stories passed around, such as the infamous Mew under the truck in Pokémon Red and Blue, but the series has never shied away from embracing these moments of collaboration and sharing of stories by introducing plenty of hidden and secret things in their games. Sometimes they were unintentional, like MissingNo., but there are plenty of rare and secret things Game Freak has put in that only…

Michelle Yeoh has said the groundbreaking film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon “didn’t change anything” for Asian visibility in cinema.The actor is receiving huge acclaim for her role in Everything Everywhere All At Once, which has become a sleeper hit since it’s release in the US last month.Speaking to The Independent, Yeoh, 59, acknowledged that she is now “suddenly known by the younger generation” due to the film’s success. “They can relate to me suddenly and I think that’s a great achievement,” she said, adding: “I am…

Air temperature anomalies across the continental United States and Canada on June 27, 2021, when the heat intensified and records started to fall. Red areas are where air temperatures climbed more than 27°F higher than the average for the same day. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory Last summer, a deadly wave of heat struck the Pacific Northwest, causing temperatures to soar more than 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal and…