There’s no shortage of articles lately about how the pandemic has set women back. Since women tend to earn less than men, when the time came to take care of children that could no longer go to school or daycare, women ended up with the job. Working women across the globe were forced to quit their careers to become full-time, stay-at-home moms with all of the caretaking and laundry that comes with it....
NASA’sJames Webb Space Telescope(JWST) is set to launch real soon —on December 25at 07:20am EST (12:20 GMT/UTC) to be precise — and the scientific community is buzzing with anticipation. Some scientists are excited at the prospect of ‘traveling through time’ to discover the origin story of our universe, while others hope it’ll help us connect the dots between classical and quantum physics. But at least one researcher believes the JWST could be a harbinger of ill tidings....
Social media currently dominates our online behaviour. That’s why there are mobile apps available for almost every social network on nearly every mobile operating system (OS). While websites are perfectly normal ways to useFacebook,Twitterand other social networks, one can’t help but wonder when a desktop OS of choice is going to integrate properly with social networking. Right now, there are three big companies working on a new operating system. Apple is working on Lion, Microsoft on Windows 8 and Google on Chrome OS....
The fate of Flickr has long been in question sinceYahoo! decided to sunset Deliciousmany months ago. For the past several years, the site, which was founded in 2004, has remained stagnant, unchanged with the exception of thousands of new members and a few social features. The site looks dated, there is a growing amount of MySpace-ish spam, showcasing large photos is awkward, the iPhone app is slow (there is no iPad app) and activity on Flickr feels a little “walled” off from the rest of the web....
Without so much as a whisper from the retailer itself, Amazon’s Android tablet is heading our way. Rumoured to launch at the end of the third quarter in time for the holiday season, Amazon is hoping it can steal a little of Apple’s thunder and steal a little of its market share. Apple’s rivals have tried to match the aesthetics and the simplicity of the iPad and mostly all of them have failed; Motorola rushed its XOOM to market to become the first vendor to launch an Android Honeycomb tablet, Samsung has had limited success with its 7-inch Galaxy Tab but has struggled in its attempts to bring a 10-inch model to market....
