Digital life

Digital life

The blackout continues to this day, and it is forcing a country of more than 90 million people to find alternative ways to stay informed, stay in touch with loved ones, study, and keep their businesses afloat. The digital shutdown has meant that Google Maps isn't working, that data and emails are lost, that paying a taxi driver through an app has become a real challenge.

If you were to travel back in time to 1996 with a 2TB thumb drive, you'd be able to fit the entire World Wide Web on it. Of course, that kind of storage didn't exist in the '90s, so it's never been that simple for the Internet Archive. The nonprofit site, which launched three decades ago this year, went from making copies of the web on tape drives to storing more than 1 trillion pages worth of Internet history at data centers around the world.

Bumble announcing a new tool designed to help users find matches more effectively. The company said it is introducing an AI assistant called Bee as part of its matchmaking process. Bumble said the feature aims to give users a more personal way to connect on the platform. The company has also announced it will remove the swipe -- a key feature of the app for users to express interest in potential matches.

The materials don't disappear; they just stop circulating. Mining companies extract more virgin gold and copper from the ground while millions of pounds of the same metals sit on shelves in junk rooms and lie fallow in landfills.

The study, which tracked the movements of 100,000 anonymized mobile-phone users over six months, had found that human mobility is surprisingly predictable: Our days default to simple, repeatable patterns.

Originally redesigned as a competitor to the massive community forum site Reddit, the new Digg found that it wasn't able to effectively manage the bot traffic invading its platform and hadn't differentiated itself enough from the competition to make an impact. The startup laid off staff and said it was time to go back to the drawing board. Rose, a partner at True Ventures, returned to work full-time on a new version of Digg in April.

The best way to make the most of your smart setup is to have your devices handle tasks you forget to do or can't stay on top of, eliminate small, repetitive actions, and use real-world triggers to perform actions. Automating these devices makes your smart home work for you, not the other way around.

A collection of 44 digitally preserved Cartoon Network web games has been uploaded, covering Flash titles released between 2001 and 2015. The games include a mix of puzzle, action, and light platforming, with characters ranging from classic favorites like Scooby-Doo and Tom and Jerry to later-era Flash games featuring Sonic and Annoying Orange.

Microsoft allows free access to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in your internet browser, so long as you sign up for a free Microsoft account. Here's how you do it: Click Sign In. If you don't have an account, click Create One. Enter your email address, and go through the verification process. Enter your country, birth date, and name. That's it! You can now sign in and open Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive, Teams, or OneNote from the side panel.

And just like that, Mother's Day is tomorrow, May 10th, which is too soon for most online purchases to arrive in time. That said, you aren't alone if you waited too long to pick up a gift this year, and you definitely aren't alone in feeling guilty for considering digital gifts instead of something your mom can unwrap. But here's the thing: digital gifts can still unlock memorable experiences, be it movies, games, or music.

The number of young people with retirement accounts has increased by 36% since when we were young, and the number of 25-year-olds who own stocks and bonds is up almost sixfold. This generation, like the Depression generation, gets that they're going to need to be smart about money now because they have a lot of obstacles in their way.

54% of respondents feel that outage credits should be automatic. Twenty-eight percent of customers want outage credits to begin after one hour and 26% after three hours. Seventy-one percent of survey respondents say that outages lasting one hour or more should qualify for the credits. Overall, 69% of customers feel that people deserve compensation in some form when their internet or wireless goes down.

I arrived there in 2020 after traveling across Asia and the US. I was living out of a single carry-on, swimming in the open sea, and working remotely with a hospitality group's social media team. I was also moonlighting for travel and lifestyle publications, including writing a column about the island life I was living in real time.

Social media is powerful because it taps into deep psychological needs and links them to fast, visible, and repeatable reward signals. It is not simply a matter of weak willpower or poor time management. A like, comment, message, or shared post is psychologically more than a technical notification—it can feel like a small moment of social resonance: I am seen. I belong. I have had an effect. I matter.