Yearly Archives: 2020

Apple Safari to block Google Analytics from data collection

The latest version of Apple’s macOS contains an updated version of the Safari browser that prevents trackers, including Google Analytics, from collecting user data. The new version of macOS, called “Big Sur,” was announced this week at Apple’s World Developers Conference (WWDC). During the announcement, Apple previewed Safari’s new privacy …

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Lots of drama but little certainty in the Kentucky and New York primaries

One after another, left-wing challengers faced New York headlines, including Representative Gregory Meeks, chairman of the Queens Democratic Party; Representative Yvette Clarke, who faced a number of upstart candidates in Brooklyn; and Representative Carolyn Maloney, who represents parts of three boroughs of New York City. Jerrold Nadler, the chair of …

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You could generate power by hanging garbage in a black hole

Revisiting the classics In 1969, physicist Roger Penrose theorized that space civilizations could generate power by hanging objects in a black hole. For decades, the idea was impossible to test because we have no way of traveling to a black hole, or even surviving the trip. But now a team …

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