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Men Overran A Job Fair For Women In Tech

It was meant to be a week for women in tech—but this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration was swamped by men who gate-crashed the event in search of lucrative tech jobs. The annual conference and career fair aimed at women and non-binary tech workers, which takes its name from a...

Best Bed Frames (2023): Easy Assembly, Fabric, Wood, And Metal

There comes a pivotal time in every adult’s life when they finally upgrade from hand-me-downs. A bed frame might seem like something you can go without, but not only can they upgrade the look of your room, but they can also help your mattress last longer. We’ve put a...

How Insect Brains Melt And Rewire During Metamorphosis

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. On warm summer nights, green lacewings flutter around bright lanterns in backyards and at campsites. The insects, with their veil-like wings, are easily distracted from their natural preoccupation with sipping on flower nectar, avoiding predatory bats, and reproducing. Small...

Lego Is A Company Haunted By Its Own Plastic

“In the future, they should not make these kinds of announcements until they actually do it,” says Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics. Global plastic production has been projected to double in the next 20 years, according to the World Economic Forum, and yet in the US, for example,...

House Of Marley Stir It Up Lux Review (2023): Made For Beginners

I’ve NEver set up a turntable before. Sure, I’ve used some, but they were all-in-ones that had speakers and preamps built in, and I had friends who set up the arm balance. A fully fledged turntable setup has always sounded intimidating to me. A touch of fear didn’t stop...

An Epic Fight Over What Really Killed The Dinosaurs

The climate chaos was now full-tilt climate anarchy. “The Deccan Traps are still erupting after that event,” says Yale University geochronologist Jennifer Kasbohm, who studies volcanoes’ influence on climate change but wasn’t involved in the new paper. “It was a really bad day, but things continue to be kind...

SoundThinking, Maker Of ShotSpotter, Is Buying Parts Of PredPol Creator Geolitica

SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is quietly acquiring staff, patents, and customers of the firm that created the notorious predictive policing software PredPol, WIRED has learned. In an August earnings call, SoundThinking CEO Ralph Clark announced to investors that the company was negotiating an agreement to...