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See a dust devil whirl by the Mars Perseverance rover
Mars has excellent ingredients for dust devils. While taking images of its new surroundings on the arid Martian surface, the Perseverance rover recently spotted a whirl of dust spinning by in the distance. Seen below, the dust devil appears beyond the rover’s arm: See the zoomed-in view of this dust devil on Marspic.twitter.com/4ILDqoejZ8 — NASA’s…
The Martian sounds recorded by the Perseverance rover, so far
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The 20 Best Photoshop Actions & Layer Styles for Creative Text Effects – Give your regular graphics an extra oomph with incredible typography! This collection includes a massive variety of styles to choose from. Emoji Cloud – Tell the world how you feel by using this CDN for SVG emoji. Read moreInstalling and Configuring your…
The EPA’s climate webpage got axed. Now it’s back.
The Trump administration deleted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s main climate change webpage on Oct. 16, 2018Now, it’s back. The EPA announced Thursday that it rebooted its climate webpage, which includes information about how the climate is warming and how the regulatory agency seeks to curb heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. “Climate facts are back on…
Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable Tablet-Laptop Review
Lisa Gade reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad X12 Detachable, a 12.3” Surface Pro competitor with a 3:2 aspect ratio display and a pleasingly rigid and ergonomic detachable ThinkPad style keyboard. It runs Windows 10 on Intel 11th gen CPUs with Iris Xe graphics and Thunderbolt 4. The X12 has a magnesium alloy casing and passes a…
Jon Kabat-Zinn’s MasterClass might be the best mindfulness introduction yet
March Mindfulness is a Mashable series that explores the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in the time of coronavirus, March doesn’t have to be madness. The messenger matters. That’s the basic proposition of MasterClass, the six-year-old online service that delivers slimmed-down courses of instruction from top names in a variety of fields….
How to Implement AMP in WordPress? (Definitive Guide for Beginners)
Want to know how to implement AMP in WordPress? Then, you’ve come to the right place. This article is the definitive guide on how to implement AMP for your website. Simply put, Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP) is a way to make your site load faster on a mobile device. Technical details aside, the important thing…
25 YouTube stats and facts to power your 2021 marketing strategy
If you’re interested in ramping up your video marketing strategy in 2021, you’re probably doing some research into the best platforms to use. If you’re trying to figure out how YouTube fits into your approach, we have a list of 27 must-know YouTube statistics to help you understand how the platform is being used right…
How To Do Affiliate Marketing Step By Step (For Beginners 2021)
Here’s how to do affiliate marketing. This is a step-by-step tutorial for beginners – start affiliate marketing FOR FREE in 2021 with this video. ?Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKMDqnJbYx6yv0N-dRvRAgQ?sub_confirmation=1 Affiliate marketing is my favorite way of making money online. I have been a full-time blogger and affiliate for over 5 years, and today I want to share with…
It’s probably not aliens: New ‘Oumuamua theory suggests simpler origins
There’s a frozen, interstellar object about half a mile long whizzing through our solar system right now, and nobody has had a particularly clear idea about what it is — until now. According to a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Geophysical Research, it could be a chunk of a Pluto-like planet from another…
The 10 Best Photoshop Action Sets for Creating the Bokeh Effect
The bokeh effect has a multitude of uses within digital art. It can be overused, sure. But it can also be simply stunning. Trying to recreate this look on your own would be a time-consuming task. Thank goodness for Photoshop actions, right? What you’ll find here is a fantastic set of Photoshop actions that greatly…
How to use Slack to keep your remote team productive and engaged
Trying to figure out how to use Slack? Good. It’s totally worth it. Boasting 10+ million daily active users, the popularity of Slack speaks for itself. In fact, the platform is now a staple of remote work as more and more teams rely on Slack as their all-in-one communications hub. Read moreInstalling and Configuring your…
Hear me out… Social media gimmicks won’t save your social strategy
In recent years, it feels as if organic social reach is on the decline. While there’s some debate as to what’s directly causing this phenomenon (Algorithms! Too many networks! More paid social!), social marketers can all agree it’s one challenge that calls for some creative problem solving. Some brands are choosing to take a direct…
Why Thinking Ahead Is Crucial in Web Design
The difference between building a great website and a mediocre one is usually determined very early on. It’s often a matter of a web designer painting their project into a virtual “corner”. That’s where a design becomes inflexible and unable to accommodate various use cases. This tends to happen in the prototyping phase. We spend…
I quit Instagram with meditation, and you can too
March Mindfulness is Mashable’s series that examines the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in the time of coronavirus, March doesn’t have to be madness. At the beginning of the pandemic, Instagram felt like an escape. I couldn’t meet up with friends at the movies or concerts or bars, so I upped my…
To spring break or not to spring break? That is the question for brands navigating the pandemic
Ten years in Chicago has taught me that, even though the temperature reads 60 degrees outside, there’s likely one more cold spell we have to endure before we finally get to spring. me: oh wow it’s gonna be 60 today chicago twitter: Winter Fool’s SpringSecond Winter Spring of Deception <—? ??? ??? ????Third WinterThe PolleningActual…
Lenovo ThinkPad P15 Mobile Workstation Review
Lisa Gade reviews the Lenovo ThinkPad P15 Gen. 1, a very powerful 15.6” mobile workstation laptop that’s the successor to the ThinkPad P53. The laptop has a wide array of ports and is quite upgradable—including 4 RAM slots. It runs your choice of Windows 10 or Ubuntu Linux on Intel 10th gen H series 45…
Do We Really Need to Follow Design Trends?
Designers love to complain about ‘superficial’ design trends that they don’t feel have any staying power or contribute anything meaningful to the industry. But are they right? I happen to think that whatever users find ‘trendy’ or cool, even though it may be fleeting, is part of the service a designer provides. It’s part of…
Twitter trending topics: How they work and how to use them
Twitter is known for its always-changing trending topics. These topics can be as broadly popular as the gossip or current events, or personally tailored to an individual level that reflects your own account’s interests, industry, and brand. Over the last few years, Twitter has continued to refine how trending topics work by adding different layers…
Watch SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket complete another successful launch and landing
Read moreInstalling and Configuring your OnApp CloudWhile most of America was asleep this morning, SpaceX successfully launched and landed its Falcon 9 rocket again. The Falcon 9, the “first orbital class rocket capable of reflight,” departed from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 6:01 a.m. ET on Sunday. The rocket launched 60 Starlink satellites…