Search results for junk mail

Social Sciences Mar 19, 2024

Do you have 7,513 unread emails in your inbox? Research suggests that's unwise

How do you manage your emails? Are you an "inbox zero" kind of person, or do you just leave thousands of them unread?

Environment Feb 20, 2024

A device for cleaning the water is being tested in Huntington Beach

For the past few weeks, a futuristic-looking contraption has been cruising around, scooping up trash in Huntington Harbor, keeping especially busy as heaps of debris washes down with recent rain storms.

Environment Dec 29, 2023

NREL research quantifies losses from cardboard, paper waste

Piles of cardboard and paper littering America's landfills represent $4 billion in lost economic value, according to a new analysis by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Environment May 15, 2019

Many online climate change lessons are actually junk

When science teacher Diana Allen set out to teach climate change, a subject she'd never learned in school, she fell into a rabbit's hole of misinformation: Many resources presented online as educational material were actually ...

Consumer & Gadgets Aug 30, 2018

Useful or creepy? Machines suggest Gmail replies

Google is toeing the line between helping you save time and creeping you out as it turns to machines to suggest email replies on your behalf.

Internet Jul 30, 2018

What if the companies that profit from your data had to pay you?

When it comes to digital privacy, there are plenty of organisations making money out of using your data – Google and Facebook are just two examples. But what if you were the one making the money?

Internet Jul 25, 2018

Why are there so many suckers? A neuropsychologist explains

If you have a mailbox, you probably get junk mail. If you have an email account, you probably get spam. If you have a phone, you probably get robocalls.

Business Jul 2, 2018

CEO Musk: Tesla hits weekly goal of making 5,000 Models 3s

Electric car maker Tesla Inc. has delivered on its CEO's promise to build a lower-priced car at a rate of 5,000 per week by the end of June.

Space Exploration Apr 19, 2018

Musk says that SpaceX will use a giant party balloon to bring an upper stage back

When Elon Musk of SpaceX tweets something interesting, it generates a wave of excitement. So when he tweeted recently that SpaceX might be working on a way to retrieve upper stages of their rockets, it set off a chain of ...

Other Apr 3, 2018

Dating website matches you based on your DNA

Sick and tired of looking for love? There's now a website that does it for you, using your DNA.

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