YOU HAVE to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg. When the founder of Facebook announced in October that he was changing the name of the social-media network’s parent company to Meta Platforms in order to help create an alternative digital reality known as the metaverse, he was mercilessly mocked. To some, he was generating a smokescreen …
HOW MUCH have you spent on the cloud today? It takes Robert Hodges only a few clicks to find out. He pulls up a dashboard on a computer in his home office in Berkeley, California, which shows cloud spending at his database firm, Altinity, in real time. The cloud represents half of Altinity’s total costs. …
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FATHER CHRISTMAS and the global container-shipping industry have similar objectives, though the timescales differ. Santa’s world-spanning logistics operation aims to deliver presents all in one night. Shipping firms step theirs up around September to ensure that gifts and other seasonal goods join a vast global supply chain. But a system that usually operates unnoticed (and …
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ASKED WHAT labour wanted, Samuel Gompers, founding president of the American Federation of Labour in the late 1800s, is often quoted as responding: “more”. His actual answer was surprisingly lyrical. “More schoolhouses and less jails…more learning and less vice…more leisure and less greed…more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.” His ability to tie …
Assorted Retailers Thinking of getting a tablet? You should. While tablets in general can’t quite fully replace your workstation, they have tons of use. They’re an ideal media viewer, from magazines and books to television and movies. Most streaming services offer a tablet app. The library of games available on tablets mean no more hours …
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Courtesy of Retailer Warm weather is almost here (finally!), and it’s time to start thinking about replacing your sturdy snowboots for lighter slip-on shoes to wear in public. Enter the loafer, the most versatile, best-looking “outside” shoe you’ll sport well past summer. The best loafers for men have the comfort and ease of your favorite …
The following story contains spoilers for The Batman. The Marvel Cinematic Universe didn’t invent the post-credits scene—we can look back to 1966’s The Silencers for that—but it did largely popularize what we expect from major movies in our biggest film franchises. The MCU has made a formula for the mid- and post-credits scene—often teasing what’s …
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The Arnold Sports Festival is a massive event for the fitness community, giving members of the industry a place to gather in Columbus, Ohio that mashes up the hobnobbing of a trade expo with high level competitions and the pomp and circumstance of a carnival—with a figurehead like Arnold Schwarzenegger, there’s no way it couldn’t …
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This guy bought some titanium tetrachloride which basically turns into white smoke when exposed to air and decided to soak a ball in it to make the world’s smokiest ball. A few weeks ago, I bought some titanium tetrachloride which, I heard is one of the most obnoxious chemicals. When exposed to air, almost immediately, …
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Mark Rober, the former NASA engineer who builds all those package thief glitter bombs, spent 5 years building this robot that sets up dominoes. Not only does it set up dominoes, but it sets up, like, a lot of them. Apparently a world record amount at 100k over 24 hours. The robot is obviously super …
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