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Could your Fitbit or Apple Watch detect early COVID-19 symptoms?
Stanford researchers are among several groups examining whether wearable fitness devices such as the Fitbit or Apple Watch can provide an early warning. Snyder’s team enrolled 5,000 people in the study and studied historical smartwatch data from 31 users who… Read More ›
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In Event of Moon Disaster
To recreate the contingency speech, the piece used deep learning techniques to create both a synthetic voice of Nixon and to use dialogue replacement techniques to replicate the movement of Nixon’s mouth and lips. By creating this alternative history the… Read More ›
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Where Will Everyone Go?
Even as hundreds of thousands of Guatemalans fled north toward the United States in recent years, in Jorge’s region — a state called Alta Verapaz, where precipitous mountains covered in coffee plantations and dense, dry forest give way to broader… Read More ›
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You are not being asked to drown a puppy!
Put a F**KING mask on! The language is bad on the above, but boy is it funny and actually educational.
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I drunk a coffee, in public!
The new normal is starting to feel a bit more normal now that things are starting to open up. Yesterday, my wife and I notice that the local Costa Coffee was open to sit in and so we had a… Read More ›
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The Long Road to The Porsche 911
At the time, Porsche was a company without designers. The self-confident engineers considered it superficial and something of a luxury to think about design. The first Porsche, the 356, was a functionalist manifesto. The first prestigious Porsche salesroom on Park… Read More ›
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iPhone 13 Pro concept
Apple iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro TRAILER. Innovative 360 Degree Screen. The REAL iPhone 13 and 13 Pro! Obviously far from real, but like so many concepts the practicalities leave something to be desired.
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The HODINKEE Eight-Day Travel Clock
The HODINKEE Eight-Day Travel Clock is the most recent development to come from our deeply rooted fascination with beautiful objects related to the passage of time. Its form is directly inspired by the vintage travel alarm clocks found on our… Read More ›
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The Apple Watch and longevity
One criticism if the Apple Watch is that it does not have the same longevity of a real watch and that is a perfectly logical argument. You cannot deny that it is designed to only last for a few years… Read More ›
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The Reon Pocket
The Reon Pocket is a fairly slim palm-sized white plastic device that charges over USB-C and connects to your iOS or Android phone with Bluetooth. It definitely looks like a Sony gadget. There’s a silicone pad on the back that… Read More ›
