Two recent developments suggest that Apple will use and extend its brand power as the primary engine of adoption for its forthcoming iWatch. The first is the launch of the first smartwatches with the new Android Wear OS highlighted at… Read More ›
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The Shadowy Business of International Education
Like just about everyone in Bibipur, the Singhs are farmers. The family owns a small plot—twelve acres of wheat and rice with a few cows and buffalo. On warm days as a child, Kushandeep would run off with his friends… Read More ›
When tough trees meet hot fires
A storm swept over a region baking under record heat and dryness. Instead of rain, though, the storm sent thousands of lightning strikes, and by the time the sun came up, hundreds of wildfires crackled in the hills. They would… Read More ›
Clockology. Why?
I decided to play around a bit with Clockology and I must say that it has turned into a decent app with lots of content available and a stable experience offered. Some of the watch faces are very impressive and… Read More ›
The Apple Watch is SO FAR ahead of the competition
I am surprised that the Apple Watch only has 52% market share at this point. I shouldn’t be, however, because the price is relatively high and I suspect that a lot of the 28.2% sector is made up of much… Read More ›
Can America’s Fastest Supercomputer Defeat Covid for Good?
Head is a drug hunter. A computational chemist by training, Head uses complex computer simulations to search for molecules that can gum up the gears of a virus hell-bent on infecting human cells. She focuses on therapeutics—the things doctors rely… Read More ›
It’s hard trying to be rational
And yet modern life would be impossible without those rational systems; we must improve them, not reject them. We have no choice but to wrestle with rationality—an ideal that, the sociologist Max Weber wrote, “contains within itself a world of… Read More ›
The Segway did not change the world
The proposal quoted Steve Jobs saying the invention would be “as significant as the personal computer.” Jeff Bezos said it was “revolutionary.” But what was surprising about the book deal wasn’t merely the praise the invention and its inventor, Dean… Read More ›
How is the Huawei Watch GT 2 Pro possible?
If you want to buy a titanium Apple Watch series 6 you will pay a minimum of £749 for the 40mm edition. If you want to buy a traditional watch with sapphire glass you will pay approximately £350 as a… Read More ›
A post about client sexual harassment
I was sexually harassed by a client last night. The harassment itself was no big deal, just drunken, stupid sexual texts, multiple calls & videocalls I didn’t pick up. Unfortunately, this is not something new as a woman in tech… Read More ›
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