The golden age of reboots: Why 90s nostalgia TV is booming in the 2020s
Nostalgia for '90s TV is at an all-time high, with plenty of reboots, revivals, and sequel series to choose from. But why is that era of TV so popular?.....»»
Former WeWork CEO in talks to get nearly $500 million in SoftBank settlement
Adam Neumann, the disgraced former CEO and cofounder of WeWork, may soon have a massive payday as part of a possible settlement with SoftBank, the company's largest investor, but the amount under discussion is far less than the golden parachute origi.....»»
India"s endangered lion prides conquer disease to roam free
Three years after a deadly virus struck India's endangered Asiatic lions in their last remaining natural habitat, conservationists are hunting for new homes to help booming prides roam free......»»
Apple loses key manager from self-driving EV team
Benjamin Lyon helped form Apple’s original autonomous electric car team in 2014 as its most senior manager working on sensors. He remained on the team through its various reboots over the past several years......»»
Hunt on to find British astronaut to go to the moon
The hunt is on for the next cohort of European Space Agency (ESA) astronauts to take part in upcoming missions, including manned missions to the moon in the 2020s and 2030s......»»
Small mammals climb higher to flee warming temperatures in the Rockies
The golden-mantled ground squirrel (Callospermophilus lateralis) is a popular sight among tourists in the Rocky Mountains—the small rodent is a photogenic creature with a striped back and pudgy cheeks that store seeds and other food......»»
The golden age of social science
Some of the most challenging problems facing our world, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, require not just one field of expertise but a unified interdisciplinary approach. Or so explains a team of social scientists at Caltech in a new report published i.....»»
Revenues soar at memory companies
Most Taiwan-based memory companies delivered significant revenue gains in January from a year earlier, reflecting booming market demand and rising memory prices......»»
Cadillac ad banks on nostalgia to sell future
For its first Super Bowl ad since 2012, Cadillac plays off the movie Edward Scissorhands to promote the upcoming Lyriq EV and its hands-free driving technology......»»
2021 Acura TLX A-Spec SH-AWD review: Recapturing the Golden Age
Acura turns to tech in bid to return to past glory......»»
Copper foil makers Co-Tech, Nan Ya keen on capacity expansions
As demand has outgrown supply for copper foil needed to support booming 5G infrastructure, automotive and consumer electronics applications, Taiwan's makers including Co-Tech Development and Na Ya Plastics are keenly enforcing capacity expansions, ac.....»»
SoftBank is just the latest validation for Miami’s booming startup scene
Miami tech is in a nascent phase to the outside world, and it allows the locals and newcomers to learn from major tech hubs' mistakes and decidedly do things differently. Miami has long been a refuge for those escaping the cold or Latin Ame.....»»
Global server shipments estimated to surge 7.9% in 2021
Global server shipments are estimated to have surged 7.9% on year to around 16 million units in 2020 and may further rise 5.2% to more than 17 million units in 2021, driven by the booming stay-at-home economy and robust demand for cloud services, acc.....»»
NASA"s Roman mission will probe galaxy"s core for hot Jupiters, brown dwarfs
When it launches in the mid-2020s, NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will explore an expansive range of infrared astrophysics topics. One eagerly anticipated survey will use a gravitational effect called microlensing to reveal thousands of wor.....»»
Dropping WhatsApp? Despite Privacy Concerns, Nostalgia Drives Users to ICQ
Here's an interesting tidbit from The Wall Street Journal: ICQ was a pioneering, mid-1990s internet messaging service then used on bulky PCs on dial-up. It was a precursor to AOL Instant Messenger, and was last in vogue when the TV show "Friends" was.....»»
Dropping WhatsApp? Despite Security Concerns, Nostalgia Drives Users to ICQ
Here's an interesting tidbit from The Wall Street Journal: ICQ was a pioneering, mid-1990s internet messaging service then used on bulky PCs on dial-up. It was a precursor to AOL Instant Messenger, and was last in vogue when the TV show "Friends" was.....»»
Nostalgia ain"t what it used to be
Exploiting nostalgia is a well-worn emotive approach to enticing customers to purchase a product or service. New work in the International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing, has looked at how a person's character affects whether or not th.....»»
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game — Complete Edition review: Double nostalgia
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game -- Complete Edition is a double dose of retro nostalgia, though its age shows......»»
SilviaTerra wants to bring the benefits of carbon offsets to every landowner everywhere
Zack Parisa and Max Nova, the co-founders of the carbon offset company SilviaTerra, have spent the last decade working on a way to democratize access to revenue generating carbon offsets. As forestry credits become a big, booming business on the back.....»»
Physicists observe competition between magnetic orders
They are as thin as a hair, only a hundred thousand times thinner—so-called two-dimensional materials, consisting of a single layer of atoms, have been booming in research for years. They became known to a wider audience when two Russian-British sc.....»»
Most-Played Song of 2020? For Many It"s White Noise
An anonymous reader shares a report: In an average year, Spotify Wrapped is a sharing-optimized novelty hinging on nostalgia for a time that's barely passed. But in 2020, this data mirror instead presented many users with unexpected empirical evidenc.....»»