Rub a balloon on your hair and the balloon typically picks up a negative electric charge, while your hair goes positive. But a new study shows that the charge an object picks up can depend on its history. The number of times an object had previously touched another determined whether the object became negatively or…
JuJu Watkins suffers season-ending knee injury, how does this affect USC’s March Madness run? Trojans’ star JuJu Watkins suffered a season-ending knee injury early in USC’s matchup against Mississippi State. Sports Seriously LOS ANGELES — After Mississippi State’s season ended against Southern California on Monday night, the Bulldogs were trying to protect one of their…
TikTok users posting videos of cats or dancing do not pose a security threat to the UK, a cabinet minister has said, as he defended the government’s decision not to ban the Chinese-owned video platform. The government has allowed the app to continue running in Britain, as it stopped working in the US before a…
Testing mattresses may not sound like an actual job, but if you want to do it properly, you have to put in the work. That means turning your living room into a trial lab, enlisting your nearest and dearest as guinea pigs and, yes, sleeping. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission…
If TikTok disappears from the US, it won’t just be its 170 million American users who will lose out. British TikTokers and business owners have told the Guardian they will also lose a sizeable chunk of their audiences after a ban. The video app has become a key gateway to Americans for the UK’s online…
As it turns out, including a reporter in your national security leader group chat about military strikes isn’t the only way to compromise sensitive information on Signal. NPR reported on Tuesday that, days after the Trump administration’s preposterous and dangerous national security fumble, the Pentagon issued a warning against using the messaging app due to…