Eau de Space Brings the Smell of Space Down to Earth
Astronauts are often shocked by the small details outside our world, like microgravity’s effect on cooking or the phenomena of cosmic rays. But one of the strangest...
How to Know if Someone Blocked You on WhatsApp
If you’re sending someone WhatsApp messages, but you’re not getting any replies, you might be wondering if you’ve been blocked. Well, WhatsApp doesn’t come outright and...
How to Use Safari Private Browsing on an iPhone or iPad
Sometimes, you’d like to check a website without leaving a record of it on your iPhone or iPad. Luckily, Safari includes a Private Browsing mode just...
How to Use Wireshark Filters on Linux
Wireshark is a world-class packet analyzer available on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Its filters are flexible and sophisticated, but sometimes, counterintuitive. We’ll explain the “gotchas” you...
Windows 10 Will Soon Show Edge Browser Tabs in Alt+Tab
Alt+Tab is useful for switching between windows, but it can’t help you find that browser tab you had open in one of your windows. Soon, Windows...
How to Wirelessly Link a Stadia Controller to an Android Device
Despite needing to be tethered using a USB-C cable at launch, Google Stadia controllers can now be wirelessly paired to your Android smartphone. Here’s how to...
Nobody’s Martyr: The Millions Interviews Shannon Reed
In Why Did I Get a B?, her memoir about teaching, Shannon Reed writes “I enjoy teenagers. I like that they have to be convinced to...
The Magic Mountains of the Acoma Pueblo and Thomas Mann
In January, not long before the pandemic arrived, I traveled to the Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico, some sixty miles from Albuquerque. Acoma is maybe the...
People Have Committed More Than $300,000 for a NASA-Designed Perfume That Smells Like Space
There are so many things ordinary folk, aka people who are not astronauts, want to know about space. Apparently, what space smells like is one of...
Security Concerns Fast Track Britain’s 5G Ban on Huawei: Report
Based on a security reassessment, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson now has “sound technical reasons” to begin phasing out Huawei technology from Britain’s 5G networks, a...
