With Google expected to push out its next major Android update to its own Pixel phones sometime next month, Samsung is catching up: Its top-end phones got updates to One UI 7 (based on Android 15) this year, and now the beta version of One UI 8 (based on Android 16) is available if you […]

This summer is predicted to be another scorcher, with record breaking temperatures across the U.S. beginning in June. While traditional summer crops do require heat, which is why we wait for summer to grow them, extreme heat waves or heat domes are a different thing altogether. Plants have a series of behaviors they’ll display when […]

The newest text scam making the rounds is a message that (poorly) impersonates your state DMV with a threat to rescind your license unless you pay outstanding fees. NPR reports that departments of motor vehicles in New York, Florida, and California have alerted residents to the scam, but it has been spotted in other places […]

Data broker LexisNexis Risk Solutions (LNRS) has just disclosed a data breach that occurred at the end of last year, and while it doesn’t affect as many individuals as other recent high profile incidents—such as the DISA hack that included 3.3 million people’s information—it underscores the ever-present concerns with companies collecting (and profiting off of) […]

I do not consider myself a very woo-woo person, someone who’s in touch with their spirituality, or even someone particularly sentimental. The concept of meditating, like so many other things I regard “too mystical,” has never appealed to me, but I’ll tell you what does: Working out, being physically healthy, and staying on top of […]