Technology

A Good Password Needs A Mix Of Letters, Numbers And Symbols

6:22am November 23, 2020

A password management company estimates 3 million users pick one of the following passwords: 1,2,3,4,5,6. Password. iloveyou. NordPass says each of these passwords could be cracked in under a second.

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Arts

How To Celebrate Thanksgiving Remotely

5:48pm November 22, 2020

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with J.D. Biersdorfer, technology tip columnist for The New York Times, about her article, "How to Have a Fully Remote Family Thanksgiving."

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Del Ficke, a farmer in Pleasant Dale, Neb., has embraced the cause of building carbon-rich soil, capturing carbon dioxide from the air in the process.

Farmers Are Warming Up To The Fight Against Climate Change

4:03pm November 20, 2020

by Dan Charles

Several big farm groups, traditionally hostile to environmental regulations, are now working with environmental advocates in support of farmer-friendly actions to reduce carbon emissions.

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Nintendo's Switch console is less powerful than competing consoles, but offers a more interesting gameplay experience.

Arts

It's Not Easy Porting Games To The Nintendo Switch — But Developers Do It Anyhow

10:00am November 19, 2020

by Keller Gordon

Nintendo has long prioritized interesting gaming experiences over graphical firepower, but the popularity of its consoles means developers are willing to make the effort to rework games for them.

This illustration shows the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft in orbit above Earth with its deployable solar panels extended. As the world's latest ocean-monitoring satellite, it will collect the most accurate data yet on global sea level and how our

NASA Satellite To Measure Global Sea Level Rise

8:58am November 19, 2020

by Rebecca Hersher

Space is the best place — maybe the only place — to get a complete picture of how climate change is affecting the Earth's oceans. And what happens in the ocean does not stay in the ocean.

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Foreign threats to the 2020 election looked a lot like Y2K from two decades ago: With high levels of alarm and preparation, the system held off foreign disinformation and cyberattacks.

How The U.S. Fended Off Serious Foreign Election Day Cyberattacks

7:36pm November 18, 2020

Officials feared the worst on Election Day: foreign-inspired disinformation and hacking. It didn't happen. Here's how government and private cyber sleuths helped keep the system safe.

Belittled and unloved, corporate jargon endures, even thrives.

National

Forgive Me, For I Have Sinned ... Against The English Language

3:34pm November 18, 2020

by Uri Berliner

Corporate jargon endures, even thrives. I'll loop you in. Deep dive. Best practice. Moving forward. The use of such phrases can often be tied to where people stand in a social hierarchy.

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A customer compares her iPhone 6, left, with an iPhone 7 at an Apple Store in Chicago. On Wednesday, more than 30 states announced a settlement with Apple over the company's past practice of slowing down a phone's battery.

National

Apple Agrees To Pay $113 Million To Settle 'Batterygate' Case Over iPhone Slowdowns

3:31pm November 18, 2020

by Bobby Allyn

The issue reportedly affected phones released in 2015 and 2016. As part of the settlement, Apple also agreed to be more transparent about software updates that affect a phone's battery life.

National

FAA Clears Boeing 737 Max To Fly Again

10:26am November 18, 2020

The Federal Aviation Administration has cleared the way for the Boeing 737 Max to return to passenger use after it grounded the jet 20 months ago following two deadly crashes.

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'Hitman' Bang Si-hyuk, The Brand-New Billionaire Behind BTS

10:22am November 18, 2020

by Haeryun Kang

Formerly a producer and songwriter for K-pop's nascent idols, Si-hyuk's own label, Big Hit Entertainment, recently became larger than the other top labels in Seoul combined.