Proton’s Windows and macOS mail app is out of beta and available now

Proton’s Windows and macOS mail app is out of beta and available now

Proton, the privacy-focused company that offers a variety of internet tools like mail, calendars, online storage and a password manager, continues to built out its portfolio. As of today, Proton’s desktop mail app for Windows and macOS is out of beta and now available to all its paid users. At the same time, Proton is … Read more

Quordle today – hints and answers for Friday, March 15 (game #781)

Quordle today – hints and answers for Friday, March 15 (game #781)

It’s time for your daily dose of Quordle hints, plus the answers for both the main game and the Daily Sequence spin off.  Quordle is the only one of the many Wordle clones that I’m still playing now, around two years after the daily-word-game craze hit the internet, and with good reason: it’s fun, but … Read more

Indigenous Australians started fire farming 11,000 years ago

Indigenous Australians started fire farming 11,000 years ago

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Northern Australian elder George Milpurrurr shows the next generation how to do a cultural burn.Credit: Penny Tweedie/Alamy Indigenous Australians have been using fire to shape the country’s northern ecosystems for thousands of years. Researchers analysed charcoal … Read more

TikTok is now asking users to call their Senators to prevent a US ban

TikTok is now asking users to call their Senators to prevent a US ban

One day after a bill that could lead to of TikTok in the United States passed the House of Representatives, the company is doubling down on its strategy of urging users to call lawmakers. The app began pushing new in-app messages to users asking them to “tell your Senator how important TikTok is to you” … Read more

How AI images and videos could change science

How AI images and videos could change science

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every week? Sign up here. Sora is one of several AI tools that generates video from text promptsCredit: OpenAI The release of OpenAI’s sophisticated video-generating tool Sora has been met with a mix of trepidation and excitement. Some observers worry that … Read more

More than 4,000 plastic chemicals are hazardous, report finds

More than 4,000 plastic chemicals are hazardous, report finds

Plastic wrappers are known to leach some chemicals into food.Credit: Carl Court/Getty After a year of trawling through scientific reports and national regulatory databases, scientists funded by the Norwegian Research Council have compiled a list of more than 16,000 ‘plastic chemicals’ — compounds found in plastics or thought to be used in them, including raw … Read more

8BitDo’s NES-inspired mechanical keyboard is on sale for an all-time low price

8BitDo’s NES-inspired mechanical keyboard is on sale for an all-time low price

8BitDo’s nostalgic Retro Mechanical Keyboard is on sale for an all-time low price today. The Nintendo-esque accessory ships in NES or Famicom-inspired colorways, and it includes two giant red buttons that would look right at home playing Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! or Excitebike. Usually, it’s $100, but you can grab the keyboard for $85 right now … Read more