The Tech Wardrobe

The New Adaptation of ‘The Witches’ Is Almost Too Much Fun : The 2020 version does not make this capitulation. It keeps its mouse-boy in his furry form. Nevertheless, it conveys a distinctly un-Dahlian mood, adhering to the letter of the page more than its spirit. While the book and the 1990 …

Why Is Everyone Building an Electric Pickup Truck? : The electric pickup trucks are here. Or almost here, at least. General Motors dropped a pretty penny to debut its new electric Hummer during the World Series on Tuesday, with a two minute, 15 second ad that took up an …

How to Use Blood Oxygen Data on Apple Watch, Garmin, Fitbit, Samsung : Even if you wear a sensor in the right spot, its readings can be affected by a whole host of factors. That’s especially true for devices that aren’t the standard fingertip readers. “On reflective devices, the performance can be a …

Trump’s Un-American Failure to Protect Internet Freedom : It was no quiet period for global tech issues. In 2011, Egyptian authorities shut down the internet amid pro-democracy protests; brutal military crackdowns on demonstrators soon followed. In 2013, the Edward Snowden leaks spurred public outcry over surveillance programs and …

Your Brain Prefers Happy Endings. That’s Not Always Smart : When the researchers compared the scans of participants, they found that those who most often correctly chose the pot with the most money had more activation in the amygdala, while those who made suboptimal decisions had more activation in the …

The Tech Issues You Won’t Hear About at Tonight’s Debate : The 2020 presidential election is technological warfare. President Trump and Joe Biden are spending millions to deploy algorithms and target potential voters with their messages. The campaigns are more dependent on databases, math models, and video calls than ever, in …

ClickHole Started as a Meat Joke. Can It Avoid Being Offal? : Apart from the Onion, very few dedicated humor outlets offer staff positions. Other prominent sites, such as McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, are essentially one-person operations relying on freelancers. The highest-profile humorist in the US right now is probably Andy Borowitz, whose …

The TikTok Teens Trying to Meme the Vote : Joshi started making videos on TikTok a few months ago. She’d planned to spend her first semester at UC Berkeley registering students to vote on campus, but when remote learning kept her quarantining with her parents in Mountain View this …

12 Cyber Threats That Could Wreak Havoc on the Election : Wednesday night, at a brief, hastily arranged press conference at FBI headquarters, four top US national security officials announced solemnly that they had evidence that two foreign adversaries, Iran and Russia, had obtained US voter data and appeared to be …

How to Watch the Final 2020 Presidential Debate : Donald Trump and Joe Biden will meet for their final presidential debate on Thursday evening. This was originally scheduled to be the candidates’ third debate of the 2020 election season. But America’s mask-shunning, crowded-room-loving, science-skeptical President was diagnosed with Covid-19 …