In a bid to push for transparency in political campaigning, the EU is said to be considering new regulations so that “people know who is behind the campaigning, who pays [for] it, what are the interests.” “For us the task of the day is to come up with the rules which will protect the autonomous decision-making of the voters,” Vera Jourova, EU Commissioner for Justice, told CNBC. “We don’t want the elections to be the competition of dirty methods like Cambridge Analytica, dirty money, and unclear intentions....

In the past decade, measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson have confirmed the predictions of the standard model of particle physics (our best theory for particles). But it has also raised questions about the limitations of this model, such as whether there’s a more fundamental theory of nature. Physicist Peter Higgs predicted the Higgs boson in a series of papers between 1964 and 1966, as an inevitable consequence of the mechanism responsible for giving elementary particles mass....

The controller sports a new elegant aesthetic that blends a black and white color scheme into a clean, minimalist design, with a hint of blue around the center touch pad. As many have pointed out, it looks like the lovechild of the black DualShock and the white Xbox One S controllers. I don’t disagree. Credit: Sony No matter how stunning, though, people have been rushing to Reddit to show off their own concept art for the new DualSense — and there are some pretty solid alternatives....

Leaker Jon Prosser today showed off some unofficial renders of the upcoming device, which suggest two immediate differences: there’s no camera bump and no notch, removing two of the biggest complaints about the iPhone’s design since the iPhone X. Rather than fully shaving down the bump, it instead seems Apple might opt to make the phone a little thicker. Hopefully, that means a bigger battery — and really, that’s the approach every phone maker should take....

At first glance, the Nokia 220 4G is an utterly unremarkable feature phone. It’s got an old-school T9 keypad, paired with a QVGA display that’s scarcely larger than a postage stamp. But peer a little closer, and you’ll spot a rudimentary app store, along with (as you’ve likely guessed from the name) a 4G radio that supports fast browsing. Hang on, a 4G radio on a feature phone? It’s not as strange as it sounds....

Credit: Polestar 1.5°C of difference In the 2015 Paris Agreement, governments agreed to implement measures to keep the rise in global temperature below 2°C. In 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change corrected this to a maximum of 1.5°C. With the point of no return rapidly approaching and accountability in the hands of us all, GHG emissions must halve by 2030, and drop to net-zero by 2050. Offsetting as a last resort The 1....

While it is true that traditional advertising still generates plenty of revenue, the writing is on the wall as people’s attention spans – already very short – become even shorter, and we become ever more adept at ignoring blatant messages that are forcibly bombarded at us in the digital advertising arena. The fact is that online advertising doesn’t really do it for me most of the time, because when I’m online I’m doing something – either for work or fun, or a mixture of both – and my brain automatically sifts through any pesky interruptions....

One day, Internet Explorer was nearly the only game in town, powering 96% of website visits at its peak in 2002. Then, quickly it turned into the app you only used to download Firefox or Chrome, or so the joke went. And then Internet Explorer died and turned into Chrome. Empires rise then quickly fall in tech. One year, the web was merely a vision “about anything being potentially connected with anything,” as inventor Tim Berners-Lee put it before releasing the web in late 1990....

According to estimates, India has more than half a million amputees, with tens of thousands added to the amputee population every year. And rehabilitation support from the government is negligible thanks to an overwhelmingly large informal sector. After noticing that artificial limbs or assistive devices available in India were expensive, besides being too heavy or too fragile to be of any practical use, Kumar sensed what he calls a “gaping hole in the prosthetic market” and set about filling it with a startup called Social Hardware....

The system uses a machine learning algorithm to detect and differentiate between types of brain lesions — areas of tissue that have been damaged through injury or disease. The subtle differences it spots could help develop personalized treatments for head injuries, which affect up to 60 million people every year. Usually, patients with head injuries are sent for a CT scan to check for blood in or around the brain....

I love its pace, the fictitious city of Verdansk where battle takes place, and all the little details like custom loadouts and infinite respawns that make the gameplay so dynamic. I also appreciate the fact it’s free-to-play (even though you’ll probably end up buying the full game if you care about leveling up your weapons). But there’s one thing about Warzone that absolutely infuriates me: it’s painfully easy to get irreversibly stuck at any random spot....

Yep, How Much Toilet Paper is a web-based calculator that lets you guesstimate how much wipeable material you’ll need to survive the pandemic. Simply enter the amount of rolls you’ve stocked and your average number of daily visits to the loo, and the calculator will crunch the numbers. [Read: Porn sites have turned coronavirus into a viral marketing scheme — and it’s working] Now, there’s a few things you should know....

According to the latest figures from cybersecurity firm Avast, a cryptocurrency stealing malware has been blocked more than 360,000 times by its software. The malware, named Clipsa, is described by Avast as a “multipurpose password stealer.” It exploits numerous attack vectors to steal or illicitly mine cryptocurrency. Avast says the malware can replace cryptocurrency addresses in an infected system’s clipboard to redirect funds away from their intended destination and toward wallets owned by hackers....

Okay, let’s talk about the bike itself first before I name my reasons why I’d want it to be a desk too. Built by Japanese startup Icoma, the so-called Tatamel motorbike is made to embody the “free parking wherever you like” concept, according to the company’s CEO. Admittedly, that’s a pretty good idea if you live in a dense city and you can’t find — or don’t want to pay for — a parking space, or you’re simply reluctant leaving this weird cutie outside....

If you’re asking yourself if you’re ready for the effects of a potential disaster just as a vicious storm, wildfire, or another ferocious act of God is bearing down on your home region, it’s probably already too late. In those cases, you just have to cross your fingers and hope that homes, possessions, and the people closest to you are all spared the full brunt of nature’s fury. But even if you’re “lucky”…well, even then, you could be looking at some dark days ahead....

Granted, it isn’t easy to start a bidet spray revolution across the world, because that would require having new plumbing and fittings installed. But there’s a glimmer of hope in the form of Sonny, an electronic portable bidet spray that’s currently crowdfunding on Indiegogo. The $89 device – which appears to be about as long as a 500ml water bottle – charges via USB and houses a cartridge that you can fill with water from a tap....

When households start suffering from spotty, unreliable, incredibly frustrating WiFi connections, it’s easy to think that upgrading to a better service tier might help. But often, these residents stumble on to a new unhappy truth. Sometimes, the real culprit is really an old school WiFi router that just isn’t built for handling today’s ultra high-speed connection needs. Even if you never plugged in the Tenda AC23 Smart WiFi Router ($99, 29 percent off, from TNW Deals), you could probably take one look at this router and still feel like all of your home WiFi connections were in good hands....

To easily search for vaccination slots, Programmer Berty Thomas came up with a simple but effective website called under45.in. The site lets folks in search for places that are open for vaccination of the 18-45 age group. That solves a major point that visitors face on the CoWIN website: it’s meant to be used by people of all age groups eligible for the vaccine, but it doesn’t have a filter to display vaccination centers that will serve people between ages 18-45....

Traders, presumably buoyed by the idea of an eventual return to normal, dumped 2020’s most successful ‘stay-at-home‘ stocks for travel plays like Expedia (EXPE) and Booking Holdings (BKNG). EXPE and BKNG jumped 20% and 16% respectively to bring them back into the green for the year-to-date. [Read: Here’s what you need to know about Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine] On the other hand, conference call darling Zoom Video (-21%) and digital signature prince DocuSign (-17%) collapsed, but remain significantly up in 2020....

Although Trump’s previous videos — other than the one that was removed — are still available on his account, the suspension prevents the outgoing president from posting new videos. YouTube has also disabled comments for videos on his channel. The extension is likely intended to minimize risk of further incitement of violence in light of Joe Biden’s inauguration; Trump has 2.7 million followers on his personal YouTube account. That said, the ban does not prevent him from using other communication tools available at his disposal; Trump posted his farewell address to the official White House channel earlier today....