A survey has found only a fraction of 16- to 24-year-olds think phone calls are remotely important – so they’ve put their phones on vibrate… More here. I don’t think it is just young people. I very rarely make or… Read More ›
Tech News
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 ›
Google dismantles Health unit, here we go again.
From consumer-facing products like sleep tracking tech with its Nest Hub smart home devices and Fitbit wearables to clinical initiatives like its Care Studio EHR search tool and its health AI work, Google has intensified its focus on health tech… Read More ›
Hiding tech in everyday objects
The latest device from Ikea’s novel partnership with the wifi-speaker maker Sonos is a bit different: a speaker hidden in a picture frame. The Symfonisk picture frame costs £179 ($199) and joins Ikea’s other unusual speakers – one is in… Read More ›
The Ancient Olympic Computer
Submitted as evidence: the enigmatic bronze device known as the Antikythera Mechanism. It doesn’t look like much – a few badly corroded lumps, nearly unrecognizable after two thousand years in Davy Jones’ locker. The mechanism was discovered by Greek sponge… Read More ›
Turn an AAA battery into an AA battery instantly
Your wireless mouse has died and you’re on deadline. Or you kid’s toy stopped working and they’re not happy. If you’re out of AA batteries, did you know you can use a smaller AAA battery by folding up a small… Read More ›
Have our eyes finally opened to tech intrusion?
The news that Apple will scan iPhones for child abuse imagery has naturally caused a stir. Before an image is stored onto iCloud Photos, the technology will search for matches of already known CSAM.Apple said that if a match is… Read More ›
Apple planning to scan U.S. iPhones for child abuse imagery (surely not!)
Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is planning to install a software on U.S. iPhones that will scan for child abuse imagery, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter… More here. This cannot be happening. Surely it can’t…. Read More ›
Future PLC’s e-commerce business boom
The U.K. media company — which owns brands like Tom’s Guide, Cinema Blend, Golf Monthly and Marie Claire — drove nearly a billion dollars of e-commerce revenue for its affiliate partners in 2020, driven by evergreen content and shopping holidays… Read More ›
Online ID / age verification
The thesis behind the proposal— which I critique here — is that the offline world is safe for children because of the measures put in place to protect them, but the online world is not. Spoiler: the offline world is… Read More ›
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