Month: December 2024

BONNINSTUDIO / ShutterstockBONNINSTUDIO / Shutterstock It’s always risky to make broad assertions about history, but one of the few things that seems to hold true is that technological advances drive the course of civilization. Bronze and iron were so crucial to the spread of ancient societies that they have entire epochs named after them. With…

Today marks the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, which brought the Great War to an end. The Great War, of course, would later come to be known as the First World War because an even greater war would follow within twenty years. Although it has been eclipsed in the public imagination by the Second World…

Millennials Millennials, the first generation expected to be less prosperous than their parents, may also be less healthy. Image credit: Westend61 | Getty Images November 9, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Believe it or not, millennials are getting older (and sadly, so are the rest of us). With…

Virtual Reality (VR) holds a huge potential to transform how people and businesses interact with each other as well as the surroundings. Previously VR was generally associated only with the gaming industry. Now it’s on fire with new opportunities for use. Although this innovative technology has been traditionally associated with the gaming industry, it is…

ImageCreditCreditAna Brigida for The New York TimesHONG KONG — Artificial intelligence bots. 3-D printed human organs. Genomic sequencing.These might seem to be natural topics of interest in a country determined to be the world’s leader in science and technology. But in China, where censors are known to take a heavy hand, several artworks that look…

Artificial Intelligence Siri and Alexa are going to become a lot more useful to you in the near future. Image credit: Amazon Syed Balkhi Guest Writer Entrepreneur, Growth Hacker and Marketer November 27, 2018 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Consumers have been skittish about the notion of artificial intelligence…

In pursuit of a decent night’s sleep, I have tried various methods, among them warm baths, long walks, hot drinks, giving up caffeine, yoga, acupuncture, nightcaps, sobriety, open windows, closed windows and Advil PM, bought in bulk from American pharmacies. Some help, but few succeed entirely; still sleep eludes me, for weeks at a time.…

Dan Genduso spent nearly a decade working in consulting before landing on the Disrupt Berlin stage to launch his first startup, Apoll01 — a small company with a big idea about how to solve America’s expanding education crisis.  First at Accenture and then at Slalom Consulting in San Francisco, Genduso focused on building out customer…

For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect people against sexual assault and harassment, and how it can help and support survivors. **Trigger warning** The following article describes graphic scenes of sexual violence in video games. In Custer’s Revenge, Civil War commander General Custer needs to get from…

Mosquitoes are the focus of much of the research on gene drives.Credit: Solvin Zankl/Naurepl.com Government representatives from nearly 170 countries will this month consider whether to temporarily ban the release of organisms carrying gene drives — a controversial technology that can quickly propagate a chosen gene throughout a population. The technique has the potential to…

OnePlus rolled out Dash Charge back in 2016 with the OnePlus 3 and 3T, with the 22.5W charging standard allowing devices like the OnePlus 6T to go from zero to 60% charge in just 35 minutes. With the OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition, however, OnePlus is introducing a new fast charging standard called Warp Charge that…

Photos: Rivian With a not-so-dreamy starting price of $69,000 After spending the better part of the last decade operating completely out of the spotlight, US-based automotive startup Rivian has finally debuted its first electric vehicle: a five-passenger pickup truck called the R1T. Announced on Monday at the Los Angeles Auto Show, the R1T is positioned…

Home decor brand Parachute makes $150 bed sheets and is backed by more than $44 million from venture capital firms. But when it comes to marketing, the startup wants to make sure that every dollar of its advertising spend is working as effectively as possible. Parachute is one of a growing number of direct-to-consumer brands…

Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better. Google’s Pixelbook is my favorite Chromebook ever. It’s thin, light, really fast, and converts into a tablet. It’s the best Chromebook there is, in my opinion. But I secretly prefer a really cheap and crappier Chromebook, like the $150 Hisense…

Here are the week’s top stories, and a look ahead.ImageCreditAl Drago for The New York Times1. A damning turn for President Trump and his associates:Federal prosecutors say he directed illegal payments during the presidential campaign to help prevent a possible sex scandal.The president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has said Mr. Trump, above, directed payments to…

How will the venerable Nokia fare against the Verve IMO S2? Composite: Getty Images/Louisa Parry As the new millennium dawned on January 1, 2000, I remember the novelty of using a mobile to exchange greetings with family. My Nokia 3210, unveiled the previous year, was state of the art. Competitively priced, lightweight (we thought) ……

When it comes to foldable devices like the the Royole FlexPai and Samsung’s unnamed foldable phone, this major question inevitably comes up: Is that screen made plastic or glass? Plastic looks cheap, but today’s glass screen are more likely to break than flex when you bend them. Maybe not for long. CNET got an exclusive…

Year In ReviewWe look back at the best, worst, and most significant moments of the year, and look forward to next year.   No matter how jaded we become, each year the fine gadget purveyors of the world manage to find new ways to delight and surprise us with gear that’s inventive, exciting, and just plain…

5G phones and networks are almost here, promising amazing feats like downloading entire TV seasons in minutes, and enabling cities full of driverless cars that talk to each other in real time. But the reality is that early 5G phones and networks won’t transform the way we use our phones and other devices overnight. Your carrier’s…

binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 105293752 story UK Now Has Systems To Combat Drones (bbc.com) 128 Posted by msmash on Tuesday December 25, 2018 @11:02AM from the once-bitten-twice-shy dept. Detection systems are now able to be deployed throughout the UK to combat the threat of drones, ministers say. It follows three days of disruption…

Most connected devices are a black box. When you buy a smart toaster, you don’t know how much of your data it’s beaming up to cloud or whether its lax security has allowed it to become part of a bot network (which happened in 2016). How are you supposed to know which smart lightbulb you can…

Closing the gap between technology leaders and policy makers will require a radically different approach from the defense establishment. Dec 13, 2018 Contributing editor at The Atlantic Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force Personnel work at the Air Force Space Command Network Operations and Security Center at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.Rick…

5G is coming. We’ve heard that phrase for years now; but it’s no longer a concept, it’s reality. Carriers around the world are committing to consumer-ready 5G network launches in 2019 (in some cases, early 2019), with Qualcomm Snapdragon 855-powered smartphones that you can actually go buy and use on the network. But that’s still…

Six years later, it’s still fun to make fun of Google Glass. A reference to Google Glass is shorthand for hubris, foolishness, a tech company completely missing the mark on what regular human beings like. Glass represents everything we love to mock about Silicon Valley — a bunch of nerds making ugly products that nobody…

binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror 104780226 story Qualcomm: 5G Android Flagship Phones Will Storm the 2019 Holidays (cnet.com) 47 Posted by msmash on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @10:30AM from the up-next dept. Get ready for lots of 5G phones in time for the holidays next year. From a report: The first devices for the…