I have spent the past 10 minutes trying to work out how to phrase this sensitively, but Im just going to come right out with it: sunglasses with a face mask is a challenging combination to pull off. It just looks a bit odd. Even though no one disagrees, this…

An experiment done aboard the International Space Station demonstrates the potential for a hardy fungus to shield astronauts from cosmic radiation. This fungus has already proved its mettle inside one of the most hostile places on Earth: the ruined Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Galactic cosmic radiation remains a troubling impediment…

Its a good thing live sports are coming back, because with a few exceptions, theres not much worth streaming in August.Whether its an extreme version of the typical August content drought, or the first effects of pandemic-related production delays (or both), it should be a good month to either catch…

Jennifer Riggins is participating in the Oxford Vaccine Trial. She’s an American technology journalist and marketer who’s self-employed in London — and she’s also agreed to answer some questions from Slashdot! Slashdot: Can you give me any details on what it’s like when you go in for your shots? (Like,…

Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze on the set of ‘Ghost.’ Corbis via Getty Images 2020 is a milestone year for two of director Jerry Zuckers biggest box office hits. One of those movies is the Oscar-winning classic, Ghost. There was a hesitation at the time, yeah. Oddly enough, it was…

Depending on what you read commentary on the editorial pages, Sunday specials or the wide world of internet you may reach very different conclusions on the affairs of the day. One view has it that India has failed to challenge the Chinese intrusions and is hiding the extent of PLAs…

Game studios all too often find themselves stuck in the same situation: Production should be underway, but the dev team is still somewhere in discovery mode. Rather than execution and content-build being in full flow, time is being spent debating over fundamental questions that should have been answered at the…

Masha Gessen is a staff writer for New Yorker and the author of 11 books, including the National Book Award-winner “The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia,” and the newly-published tome about the Trump presidency, “Surviving Autocracy.” Born in the Soviet Union, Gessen’s family emigrated to the US in…

Pick a random date in the fall, and theres a good chance someones predicting that the iPhone 12 will launch that day. The confusions understandable after reliably unveiling its new phones in the first couple weeks of September in recent years, Apple faces an uncertain fall thanks to possible production…

Whether due to particularly high expectations, the bad luck of following one of the strongest overall casts in Drag Race herstory, or simple franchise fatigue, much of All Stars season five has been underwhelming. The much-anticipated return of fan favorites Jujubee, Miz Cracker, and Shea Couleéamong otherspromised a season of…