It’s art! It’s magic! With colorful balls, magnets and a dash of imagination… It’s one of the most alluring videos I’ve watched all day. For this year’s F5 Re:Play Fest, held in April in NYC, thePhysalia studiocreated this wonderful piece around the theme “Happy.” They teamed up with motion graphics artist Gerardo del Hierro and decided “that happy wasn’t happy for Physalia unless pliers, microchips and a bit of soldering were involved,” and with this idea they created the happiest machine Physalia has built to date....

It’s never too early to teach your kids about cybersecurity Preventing security breaches at home There are several things you can do to reduce the risk of a data breach in your own home, especially when your child is online. First, have a talk with your children about what cybersecurity is, and why it’s so important. Depending on their age, you can teach them the warning signs of phishingscams, especially those in emails, including the following:...

Two cavemen are standing next to a freshly carved out wheel. One of the cavemen, the inventor, looks worried as the other one says “It looks really cool, but I’m just not investing in high tech at the moment” I didn’t make that up. I’m describing a cartoon I once saw, somewhere around 2002, that was so painfully acute that I didn’t think about keeping it at the time. If you can find the original I’d love to hear from you!...

While billionaires battle to dominate the nascent suborbital tourism industry, the satellite-internet space race is also heating up. Amazon’sProject Kuiper, SpaceX’sStarlink, and Softbank-backed OneWeb now have another challenger in the competition to deliver fast, low-latency internet from space: Immarsat. The UK-based firm plans to launch a network of low-earth-orbit satellites that will provide next-generation 5G services,Bloomberg reports. “It brings multiple network elements together into harmony, into a single unified network,” Immarsat CEO Rajeev Suri told the news outlet....

Five years since theBrexit voteand three since theCambridge Analytica scandal, we’re now familiar with the role that targeted political advertising can play in fomentingpolarisation. It wasrevealedin 2018 that Cambridge Analytica had used data harvested from 87 million Facebook profiles, without users’ consent, to help Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign target key voters with online adverts. In the years since, we’ve learned how these kinds of targeted adverts can create politicalfilter bubblesandecho chambers, suspected ofdividing peopleand increasing the circulation ofharmful disinformation....