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Tech Hacks

How to find free WiFi when you really need it

Get online fast without compromising your security.

Winter Storm Landon moving off the Gulf Coast on the night of February 3 on a weather radar satellite image
Weather

Ice, tornadoes, and cracking trees: Why Winter Storm Landon dragged a melee of weather across the US

Cold jet stream winds met hot Gulf air currents.

Three excited kids in robotics class printing robot toys on a 3D printer
Physics

The future might be filled with squishy robots printed to order

T-1000, but jigglier.

Person with black gloves pouring rock salt over a sidewalk despite environmental pollution
Life Skills

There’s a better way to use rock salt on snow

Deicers harm waterways in a number of ways. How you use them can make a difference.

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Vehicles

Check out Aston Martin’s insanely powerful new SUV

Let's take a look under the hood of the DBX707.

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Life Skills

Sorting your laundry correctly will make your clothes last longer

Whites, colors… stripes?

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Social Media

Your privacy is costing Meta money

A change in Apple’s privacy policy is expected to cost Meta billions.

A person counting money.
Tech Hacks

How to avoid overpaying when an app’s subscription price goes up

Make sure your interest in an app keeps pace with its cost.

a violent wave crashes over a row of homes
Climate Change

The future of hurricanes is full of floods—a lot of them

On the US Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, storm surge and heavy rains join forces to create a dramatic change in flooding risk.

What broadband ‘nutrition labels’ could reveal about your internet provider
Internet

What broadband ‘nutrition labels’ could reveal about your internet provider

It will be like what you see in a grocery store, but about monthly charges, not sugars. Here's how experts say they could help—and what problems remain.

Mars on 25 December 2003
Mars

Early Mars was a long-lasting hell, meteorite study suggests

The Red Planet could have been a cataclysmic place for even longer than suspected.

Iceberg melts into various shapes
Physics

Ice doesn’t always melt the same way—and these visuals prove it

Physicists sculpted ice into distinct shapes by controlling the temperature of surrounding water.

A Minecraft castle.
Tech Hacks

What I wish I knew before playing Minecraft with my kids

Tips for parents who want to game with their little ones.

ten dollars
Cryptocurrency

Project Hamilton takes its first run at modeling a digital dollar

MIT and Boston Fed ran computer models for a potential central bank digital currency system and published a white paper on their findings.

a large cloud system snowstorm swirls above the north east United States, taken from a satellite
Aviation

NASA’s storm-chasing planes fly through blizzards to improve snowfall forecasts

The IMPACTS mission is the first study in the last 30 years to focus on East Coast snowstorms.

Hot pink, floating, circular HIV particles like those discovered in high virulent varient.
Diseases

A highly virulent, but treatable, HIV strain has been quietly circulating since the ’90s

While it might be more contagious, it is not necessarily more deadly.

a Toyota race car on a track
Self Driving

This autonomous Toyota race car can drift like a pro

The person in the driver's seat wasn't driving. Here's why Toyota is conducting this research.

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Tech Hacks

4 RSS apps to stay in the know

An old technology that has thrived and survived for a reason.

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Fossil Fuels

Hitting Biden’s greenhouse goals could save billions in health-related costs

No extra effort necessary.

A doctor talks to a patient who is sitting on an MRI machine's bed.
Vaccines

Who gets an organ transplant? Waitlist rules are complicated.

A COVID vaccine may be only one of many priorities for a transplant patient.