December 2022

Some Amazon customers can earn $2 a month by sharing their mobile data with the e-commerce giant. Amazon’s Ad Verification app invites users to share their mobile data to help it provide customers with a more personalized advertising experience. The $2 reward is only available to users who are invited to participate, users who do

Physicists think they have detected an asymmetry in the arrangement of galaxies in the universe. If confirmed, the discovery could point to the signature of unknown fundamental laws of physics at work during the Big Bang. The researchers tried to construct tetrahedra among a set of four galaxies, and when they constructed all possible tetrahedra

The U.S. passed the Chips Act earlier this year, allocating $280 billion in subsidies and support for semiconductor R&D to encourage companies to make chips domestically. Similar legislation has also been introduced in the European Union amid concerns that global semiconductor companies could compete with each other for more favorable deals or create a supply

Dwarf Fortress is an indie game that left its mark on the internet. It’s free to play, where players play as an adventurer or manage a fortress full of dwarves in a randomly generated fantasy world. There is only one developer for the entire game: Tarn Adams, aka Toady One, the project started in 2002

The drug, Rebyota, became the first fecal transplant product approved for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The treatment, developed by the Swiss pharmaceutical company Ferring, uses faeces from healthy donors to prevent recurrent Clostridium difficile (CDI) infections in adults. In the United States, between 15,000 and 30,000 people die each year