How to Remove the Background from a Picture in Microsoft PowerPoint
Removing a distracting background from an image allows your audience to focus on the subject matter. Microsoft PowerPoint provides a suite of basic image editing tools—including...
Making Sense of Trauma: The Millions Interviews Melanie Abrams
The title of Melanie Abrams’s second novel, Meadowlark, evokes something peaceful, tranquil. From the first page, however, readers are thrown into a series of increasingly volatile...
Oracle’s Bid for TikTok Is Down to the Wire and Also a Huge Mess
The Trump administration’s efforts to strong-arm Beijing-based ByteDance into selling its U.S. subsidiary TikTok to an American company are closing in, with enterprise software giant Oracle...
Everything Store Becomes Everywhere Store
Ready for Amazon to get even more ubiquitous in your day to day life? The e-commerce giant is planning on opening 1,000 to 1,500 small distribution...
Is Mercedes’ MBUX a Good In-Car Computer?
Spoiler alert: Yeah, sure! Read more… Source : Is Mercedes’ MBUX a Good In-Car Computer?
This Soldier’s Witness to the Iraq War Lie
There at the Baghdad hospital, I joined an FBI agent in questioning the bedridden Ahmed al-Ani about his time in the Czech Republic. A diminutive man...
Announcing the Winners of the 2020 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards
The Rona Jaffe Foundation has been recognizing outstanding emerging women writers since 1995—past recipients include Elif Batuman, Chelsea Bieker, Eula Biss, Rivka Galchen, Vanessa Hua, Helen...
Walter Mosley on Writing Awkward Black Nerds
Three decades ago, Walter Mosley published Devil in a Blue Dress, his first novel, a mystery featuring the now-famous private investigator Easy Rawlins. Almost 60 books...
85 Million Pieces of Mail Delayed in One Week Thanks to Louis DeJoy, Senate Report Says
Controversial changes ordered by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy caused an estimated 85 million more packages to arrive late in one week and, in some districts, nearly...
Facebook’s AR Ray-Bans Are a Stylish but Horrible Idea
We learned two things about Facebook today. First, it’s working on Project Aria, an experimental platform that will eventually lead to a pair of AR glasses...
