Last week, the cargo ship Ever Given got itself stuck in the Suez Canal for six days. The blockage completely disrupted maritime trade routes, captured worldwide attention, and became the subject of many online lulz. But even though the...
Open VSX Registry, a repository of extensions for Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code and other developer tools, is now under the jurisdiction of the Eclipse Foundation.Bult on the Eclipse Open VSX project, the public repository has been transferred from development...
There are thousands of distortion filters available on major social platforms, with names like La Belle, Natural Beauty, and Boss Babe. Even the goofy Big Mouth on Snapchat, one of social media’s most popular filters, is made with distortion...
Industry clouds are a bundle of cloud services, tools, and applications that focus on the most important use cases in a specific industry. The most common industry clouds are designed for the retail, healthcare, government, and finance sectors. This might...
All those stresses are adding up. Tony Nguyen, program coordinator at the California Healthy Nail Salon Collaborative, says back rent is mounting and jobs are fewer. Older women, in particular, are worried they won’t get called back to work....
Andrew Hampshire has spent the last 15 years working in operations and technology in the UK’s financial services sector, in private equity firms and large financial institutions. During this time, a recurrent theme in his conversations with chief executives...
Ideas about what constitutes “beauty” are complex, subjective, and by no means limited to physical appearances. Elusive though it is, everyone wants more of it. That means big business and increasingly, people harnessing algorithms to create their ideal selves...
Etsy sellers are racing to make vaccine-themed gear as inoculations roll out across the country. | Mark Gray A lot of sellers did well selling cloth masks. Now some shops are turning to vaccine-themed gear....
Christina Animashaun/Vox How design can manipulate and coerce you into doing what websites want.
If you’re an Instagram user, you may have recently seen a pop-up asking if you want the service...
Remote workers who’ve been working out of state during the pandemic might be in for a tax surprise. | Getty Images/iStockphoto Working remotely can be a boon or a bust for your taxes, depending on...


















