Month: February 2024

ImagePassengers at the departures area of Gatwick Airport, where flights were canceled after drones were spotted over the airfield outside London on Wednesday and Thursday.CreditCreditTim Ireland/Associated PressTwo drones that went floating over a runway at Gatwick Airport outside London this week caused chaos, disrupting hundreds of flights there, and stranding tens of thousands of passengers…

Every January, the Consumer Electronics Association hosts the annual (and potentially largest) Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada — where events often begin with a projection of the top tech trends to come that year. At the start of 2018, it was predicted that a handful of trends would dominate the year. And as…

Fitness trackers and heart-rate monitors are all well and good, but if you want to track activity inside the body, the solutions aren’t nearly as convenient. Iota Biosciences wants to change that with millimeter-wide sensors that can live more or less permanently in your body and transmit wirelessly what they detect, and a $15 million…

Startup entrepreneurs have a crucial role to play in building a more agile response to the global refugee crisis and also helping to change the narrative around displaced people, TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin has heard. Speaking during a panel discussing how technology can support refugees to integrate and rebuild their lives, Aline Sara, CEO of NaTakallam…

Photo: Adam Clark Estes (Gizmodo)Since its introduction in 2012, Dolby Atmos has been a dazzling new audio technology that you could basically only experience in fancy movie theaters. But recently, high-end soundbars have started supporting the standard, which was cool if you wanted to spend north of $1,000 on a system. Vizio did what Vizio…

Sue Black is easy to spot in the crowded London pub, thanks to her bright red spiky hair. And as soon as we start talking, she is making me wonder why I chose to focus on the arts and humanities at school. Were my teachers influenced by gender stereotypes; or was I? Will more women…

Ah, security purposes, our favorite road to hell paved with some kind of intentions. Is it like when Facebook took people’s phone numbers for security purposes and handed them to advertisers? Sorry, I’m just a little cynical right now. The report explained the purpose of corporate bosses chipping their workers like a beloved Pekinese is…

Fabric-coated tech products have slowly but surely padded into the market in 2018, suggesting a future of gentle, unobtrusive devices. Here’s a look at some of the best examples. Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort first predicted the rise of cosy technology more than 20 years ago, in the seminal exhibition Softwear. Her vision was for a future…

Musician Imogen Heap might be best known as a solo artist, but don’t assume she’s a lone wolf. On the contrary, Heap has worked closely with many artists and on many different projects throughout her career. Most notably and recently, she was part of the Grammy-winning production team for Taylor Swift’s album 1989, and almost…

Credit: Zephyr/Science Photo Library A day after news broke of a Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make the world’s first genome-edited babies, researchers fear the startling announcement will hinder their efforts to safely translate gene-editing technology into treatments. As scientists gathered for the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong…

Walking into the office of Viktor Prokopenya — which overlooks a central London park — you would perhaps be forgiven for missing the significance of this unassuming location, just south of Victoria Station in London. While giant firms battle globally to make augmented reality a “real industry,” this jovial businessman from Belarus is poised to…

Lenovo’s new Yoga C630 features the Qualcomm Snapdragon 850 processor. Lenovo The best way to sell always-connected PCs is downplaying the actual connectivity part.At least, that’s what Lenovo has found through the past year of selling computers powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon LTE processors, said Matt Bereda, vice president of global consumer marketing for PCs and…

From smart displays to 4K TVs for less than $300. This article is published through a partnership with New York Media’s Strategist. The partnership is designed to surface the most useful, expert recommendations for things to buy across the vast e-commerce landscape. We update links when possible, but note that deals can expire and all…

But after decades of shimmering tubes, Airstream is changing things up with its latest offering, the fiberglass encased Nest. Starting at $45,900, the 16-foot, seven-inch rolling home breaks the mold and goes for a minimalist design. The two-tone gray and white Nest might not look like the rest of the Airstream lineup, but inside, it’s…

1 / 10People hold a sign at a Vancouver, British Columbia courthouse prior to the bail hearing for Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer on Monday, December 10, 2018. Meng Wanzhou was detained at the request of the U.S. during a layover at the Vancouver airport on Dec. 1.(Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)VANCOUVER, British…

Facebook failed to prevent its platform being used to auction a 16-year-old girl off for marriage in South Sudan. Child early and forced marriage (CEFM) is the most commonly reported form of gender-based violence in South Sudan, according to a recent Plan International report on the myriad risks for adolescent girls living in the war-torn region. Now…

Openwater CEO Mary Lou Jepsen said her company’s imaging technology has numerous potential applications. Jin S. Lee At Business Insider’s IGNITION conference on Monday, Mary Lou Jepsen, a former executive at Facebook and Google, discussed the technology being developed by her new company. Openwater is working on a new kind of imaging technology that relies…

ImageThe Police Department said it would have 29 officers trained to operate its fleet of drones, which will not be equipped with weapons.CreditCreditUli Seit for The New York Times[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.]Law-enforcement agencies across the country have adopted aerial drones to map crime…

Editorial input — CRISPR technology supposedly used to edit gene associated with HIV resistance. John Timmer – Nov 26, 2018 8:31 pm UTC Enlarge / He Jiankui, the scientist who has claimed to have led an effort to gene-edit humans.On Sunday, news reports indicated that the first gene-edited human babies had been born in China.…

Anyone who regularly reads business news will recognize the Chinese companies consistently making headlines: Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, and Xiaomi. These companies have established a major role in the global economy. Today, they dominate everything from e-commerce to the Chinese entertainment industry. One of the reasons these organizations have become digital titans of industry is China’s…

High school senior Kendra Lodewyk uses a Google Chromebook at school every day — and has since eighth grade. “Just today, I used one in first hour, third hour, and fifth hour,” she told Business Insider. And when Lodewyk goes home, she logs into Google Classroom. It’s the online tool where her teachers post homework,…

Welcome to Dispensed: A weekly dose of pharma, biotech, and healthcare news Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Hello! Welcome to Dispensed, your weekly dose of the biotech, pharma, and healthcare stories that kept Business Insider’s healthcare team busy this week. I just got back from Seattle — stay tuned next week for some stories gathered from my…

NBC NBCUniversal is trying to stave off the shift of TV dollars to digital platforms. The TV company is expanding its use of its cross-measurement system, CFlight, in 2019. It’s also continuing to cut ad clutter and make ads more relevant. Linda Yaccarino, chairman of NBCUniversal’s advertising sales and partnerships, took some bold steps in…

Thanks to an influx of exciting new technologies and partnerships, patient experience and the healthcare industry as a whole are rapidly changing. The impact of additional research, new data developments, and cutting-edge treatments on the healthcare industry is truly impressive. Major medical providers around the world must now embrace the future of medicine so they don’t fall behind…

Trump’s about to make a bunch of whales, turtles, and dolphins go deaf. The Trump administration is about to take a preliminary step toward oil and natural gas drilling off the Atlantic shore, by approving requests from energy companies to conduct “deafening seismic tests that could harm tens of thousands of dolphins, whales and other…

The definition of the sharing economy varies usually depends on who you ask — or what site you search. You will find that the definition often includes the sharing of a good or service through an online platform. The truth is, the sharing economy has existed for centuries. Communities historically shared limited resources instead of…

The debates about screen time and kids are really confused: the studies have contradictory findings, and the ones that find negative outcomes in kids who spend a lot of time on their screens struggle to figure out the cause-and-effect relationship (are depressed kids using screens more because that’s how they get help, or do kids…

ImageApple’s current campus in Austin, Tex. The company said it was building a new facility that would double the size of its work force in the city.CreditCreditTamir Kalifa for The New York TimesApple said Thursday that it would build a new $1 billion campus in Austin, Tex., where it could eventually employ 15,000 people, amid…