The Brutalist Report

ArsTechnica

• No air currents required: Ballooning spiders rely on electric fields to generate lift [1255d]
• 38,000 health workers dispatched to Shanghai as COVID outbreak worsens [1255d]
• App lets you crank the new MacBook Pro’s brightness to over 1,000 nits [1255d]
• Texas’ power failure: Limited chance for profits vs. huge social costs [1255d]
• Return to Monkey Island confirmed by Ron Gilbert as real, slated for 2022 launch [1255d]
• Google Play crackdown makes Amazon, Barnes & Noble pull digital purchases [1255d]
• Elon Musk buys 9% of Twitter stock as he pressures company on “free speech” [1255d]
• World of Tanks maker closes studios in Russia, Belarus [1255d]
• The world’s oldest pants are a 3,000-year-old engineering marvel [1255d]
• Some of the stranger features on Pluto remain tough to explain [1255d]
• First Tesla, now Polestar—Hertz signs a new electric vehicle partner [1255d]
• Review: Ryzen 5 5500 and 5600 can breathe new life into older AMD PCs [1255d]
• Comcast wanted man to pay $19,000 after falsely advertising service on his street [1255d]