Major fire erupts at a warehouse outside of Los Angeles

February 26th, 2021 05:14 PM

More than 100 firefighters to a massive fire that erupted in Compton, Calif.

We Are Tech Is the Exact Edtech Startup the U.S. Needs Right Now

February 26th, 2021 06:00 PM

“The action of amplifying [Black voices] has been necessary, but what is the next step?” said Brittany Jenkins, the founder of the We Are Tech edtech startup. Jenkins is on the frontlines of working to foster diversity and equity in the tech industry. We Are Tech is not the first organization to address these issues,…

Biden visits disaster-hit Texas as Cruz basks in warmth of Florida right-fest

February 26th, 2021 05:32 PM

The president visited an emergency operations centre and a food bank as the Texas senator railed against the ‘hard left’ at the conservative CPAC eventAmerica’s political divide was on display on Friday as Joe Biden flew to Texas to comfort victims of a deadly winter storm while Ted Cruz, a senator from the beleaguered state, basked in Florida sunshine and joked about his recent holiday in Mexico.The US president, who made empathy the core of his election campaign, and the first lady, Jill...

Record a Video of Yourself When You're Happy to Look at When You're Sad

February 26th, 2021 04:40 PM

The thought of recording a video for your future self sounds silly, evoking thoughts of the third grade, when you were perhaps directed to write a letter to adult you.

Billie Eilish’s first documentary captures intimate spaces, but not intimate emotions

February 26th, 2021 06:00 PM

Photo: Apple Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurryisn’t as interesting as its subject Continue reading…

How TikTok is powering Duncan Laurence's Eurovision winner

February 26th, 2021 10:02 AM

Duncan Laurence won Eurovision with his song Arcade, which is now being powered by TikTok.

Daily Crunch: Facebook launches rap app

February 26th, 2021 05:10 PM

Facebook unveils another experimental app, Atlassian acquires a data visualization startup and Newsela becomes a unicorn. This is your Daily Crunch for February 26, 2021. The big story: Facebook launches rap app The new BARS app was created by NPE Team (Facebook’s internal R&D group), allowing rappers to select from professionally created beats, and then create and share their own raps and videos. It includes autotune and will even suggest rhymes as you’re writing the lyrics. This marks...

Fight Sans Undertale Right In Your Browser

February 26th, 2021 06:15 PM

Sans is unique in that he’s the most popular character in Undertale while also providing one of the most frustrating boss fights the game has to offer.

Stadia version of Terraria is back in production after developer reconciles with Google

February 26th, 2021 05:06 PM

Image: Re-Logic Earlier this month, Terraria co-creator Andrew Spinks announced that his studio Re-Logic would cancel a Google Stadia port. However, the developer announced today that the Stadia port is now back in development. ”As you may have noticed, we had a ton of issues to kick off the year stemming from the locking-down of Redigit’s entire Google account in early January,” Re-Logic said in a recent Terraria forum post. “After a month of pushing (and with the immense support of our...

Cabrera's goal: Get to 500 HRs, 3K hits in '21

February 26th, 2021 05:39 PM

Tigers star Miguel Cabrera is 13 home runs shy of 500 for his career and 134 hits short of 3,000. He hopes to reach both milestones this season. "We can do both," he said.

Does Anyone Wear Pantyhose Anymore?

February 26th, 2021 04:08 PM

Vanessa Friedman, fashion director of The New York Times, takes reader questions.

We’ll likely have a 3rd COVID vaccine soon; J&J vaccine clears last hurdle

February 26th, 2021 04:17 PM

Enlarge / A sign at the Johnson & Johnson campus on August 26, 2019 in Irvine, California. (credit: Getty | Mario Tama) After a day-long meeting Friday, an advisory panel for the US Food and Drug Administration voted 22 to 0 to recommend issuing an Emergency Use Authorization for Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot, refrigerator-stable COVID-19 vaccine. If the FDA accepts the panel’s recommendation and grants the EUA—which it likely will—the country will have a third COVID-19 vaccine...