Author: Max Milella

The UN Generation Equality Forum was held in Paris this week, bringing together, “governments, corporations, NGOs, youth-led groups and Foundations to secure concrete, ambitious, and transformative commitments for gender equality.” Taking part in the forum, TikTok, Twitter, Google, and Facebook promised to redouble their efforts in making their platforms safer for women.  Women’s online safety needs some more attention It’s generally understood (save for a caustically ignorant few) that women and underrepresented minority groups are subject to disproportionate amounts of abuse in many societal spheres, including social media platforms. According to a release by the World Wide Web Foundation relating…

You get two kinds of electric vehicles: the kind that looks like any other car you’d see on the road today, and the kind that looks like it has flight-tech hidden somewhere inside of it. Volvo’s new concept EV is somewhere between the two, like it came from the future, but only 25 years into the future. And it has suicide doors. EVs e-Volvo-d The Swedish automaker revealed the concept vehicle, called the ‘Concept Recharge’, at its ‘Tech Day’ event, and it’s meant to show off what the company has in mind for an all-electric future. It’s got a smooth,…

Facebook can’t seem to keep its message on WhatsApp clear anymore. First it said it would start limiting features for user’s refusing to kneel before its new privacy policy. Then it did an about-turn and announced that no, it actually wouldn’t. Now it’s putting new features into the app for all users. Good grief. The latest feature the messaging platform has in the oven is ‘view once’ messages, and Android beta testers are already trying it out. This WhatsApp message will self-destruct in 5… 4… 3… The new feature is available for beta testers on Android today, say the reliable folks…

You know, as much as we’ve been talking about space endlessly over the past few weeks, we’re happy to talk about it again. After all, the fact that there are literally people living just inside of earth’s orbit, floating around on the International Space Station is pretty mind-boggling no matter how much you think about it. A few ISS astronauts recently set to work putting up a new solar array, and they took a timelapse to capture the moment.  Gravity free workspace https://youtu.be/eHACQ8ZWmMo The pair of astronauts are Thomas Pesquet of the ESA (European Space Agency) and Shane Kimbrough of…

Everyone’s picked up some new hobbies over the past year to keep sane. Some baked bread. Some started yoga. Some picked up a new instrument to play. Well, Spot, the quadrupedal dog-ish robot made by Boston Dynamics, has recently been experimenting with the ancient form of artistic expression known as dance. And it’s got pretty good at it.  Spot on choreography https://youtu.be/7atZfX85nd4 You can check out this clip of several Spots dancing along to “IONIQ: I’m On It” by K-pop sensation BTS. We prefer “Butter”, but this is a jam too. The video was put together to celebrate Hyundai Motor…

When it rains it pours, right? Twitter’s been at odds with India pretty continuously recently, and has added another log to the flame that is the government’s contempt for the micro-blogging platform: it goofed up its world map. Twitter vs India: cage match The company displayed Ladakh and the northern parts of Kashmir and Jammu as separate countries to India as a whole. The cartographical muck-up appeared first in the ‘Tweet Life’ segment of the career page, reports The Next Web. It was corrected soon after users began pointing it out.  A lawyer filed a complaint against Twitter India’s head,…

I think at this point the tech-minded world at large has reached a consensus: EV’s are cool, period. This EV, (a motorcycle) is one of the coolest. The WMC250EV is designed for one thing and one thing alone — speed. And its makers have their sights set on a land speed record.  Hole-y mother of motorcycles https://youtu.be/EuscGZyMojk So first things first. The WMC250, made by White Motorcycle Concepts, is an electric motorbike. As much as we love to harp on about electric engines, they can sometimes struggle to reach the same level of explosive power as traditional combustion engines. This…

Lenovo, sans any real celebration or announcement, has revealed its newest smart clock, creatively named: the Smart Clock 2. Someone thought long and hard about that one. The Smart Clock 2, a high-tech bedside clock with a built-in Google Assistant, can now be viewed as “Coming soon” on an official product page.  Lenovo’s clock is pretty smart In a nutshell, the Smart Clock 2 functions a lot as your phone does. Using Google assistant you can ask questions, get weather forecasts, check the news, check traffic, and more. Plus it tells time too. That’s, like, the clock part of “Smart…

German automaker Volkswagen revealed in an interview over the weekend that it plans to have entirely stopped producing combustion engine vehicles between 2033 and 2035. This adds to the already impressive wave of car manufacturers committing to becoming more environmentally friendly. Captain Planet would be so proud.  Combustion is combust-out for VW VW’s sales board director explained the manufacturer’s plans moving forward with regards to phasing out combustion engines. “In Europe, we will exit the combustion engine vehicle business between 2033 and 2035, in the USA and China a little later. In South America and Africa, due to the lack…

Microsoft’s Windows 11 showcase showed off a slew of new features and upgrades coming in the next iteration of its OS, but one that has us particularly excited is native support for Android apps. These apps will be available for download from the Microsoft store and will be fully integrated into Windows 11.  How much is that Android in the Windows? Apps are discoverable through the Microsoft store via Amazon’s app store, ready and waiting for your download. And they’re, apparently, fully integrated into the OS as well. You won’t be fiddling around with some virtual hand-held developer mode tool…