Will supply chain issues affect the books you want? Depends on what you’re reading.

Will supply chain issues affect the books you want? Depends on what you’re reading.

Post Views: 234 The supply chain issues that came for toilet paper early on in the Covid-19 pandemic are slamming another beloved paper product: printed books—and just in time for the holiday shopping season. The culprits: paper shortages, hiring challenges, and transportation issues. As more titles sink into the supply chain tar, the problems could…

All homes of the future should come with wheels

All homes of the future should come with wheels

Post Views: 236 The COVID lockdown was an existential disaster for America’s retail sector—unless you happened to be selling mobile homes. Sales of Thor large camper vans surged after the pandemic lockdown ended, and Mercedes even released its iconic Camper (that sleeps four) in the US after years of popularity in Europe. The RV Industry…

After 60 years, a mysterious Australian dinosaur just got downsized

After 60 years, a mysterious Australian dinosaur just got downsized

Post Views: 273 In the 1960s, Australian coal miners stumbled across huge, bird-life footprints protruding from the ceiling of their subterranean work site in south-eastern Queensland. The marks, more than a foot long, belonged to a creature that trekked across swampy land around 250 million years ago. They sent paleontologists into a tizzy, who though…

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

Renaming the company won’t fix Facebook’s image problem

Post Views: 241 “These kinds of name changes have always been a part of the technology landscape,” says linguist Anthony Shore, founder of naming company Operative Words. “Anytime companies outgrow and diversify from where they were, it makes it likely that they will have to change their original name, or the name of their holding…

How to upgrade your work laptop without ruining it

How to upgrade your work laptop without ruining it

Post Views: 251 Don’t even think about doing anything to your work laptop before checking your company’s IT and device policies. Depending on their concerns, and what contracts they’ve signed with clients, you might be limited in what you’re allowed to do. Also ask if they have a “bring your own device” policy, and see…

Can I offer you a nice meme in these trying times?

Can I offer you a nice meme in these trying times?

Post Views: 717 Myrick, a professor of communications at Pennsylvania State University, started thinking about how memes about this stressful time period were percolating through the internet and our collective consciousness. She and her colleagues set up an experiment to study whether these pandemic memes helped us cope with stress during quarantine—and their results were…

You can stop bots and spammers from calling you so freaking much

You can stop bots and spammers from calling you so freaking much

Post Views: 269 Your smartphone is a lot of things—a way to communicate with your loved ones, a tool to share your world, an occasional gaming console—but a vessel for ads and marketing campaigns should not be one of them. Unfortunately, robocalls and spam calls are a serious problem for many of us, meaning we…