Today, I came across a cool foldable motorbike that looks like a desk, can fit under a desk, but has one big problem: it can’t turn into a desk. Yes, this thing that looks like a PC tower is actually a motorbike. Credit: Icoma Okay, let’s talk about the bike itself first before I name my reasons why I’d want it to be a desk too. Built by Japanese startup... Read more ›
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People care about climate change and animal welfare — so it’s no wonder the demand for plant-based products has exploded in the last couple of years. The alternative dairy market is expected to triple over the next decade, reaching a whopping $32 billion USD by 2031. But what exactly is it that will determine success within this fast-growing industry? And what do startups need to know in order to attain... Read more ›
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TLDR: With The Ultimate Windows 11 Training Video Course, new users get a complete crash course in everything that’s the same and different in Microsoft’s first OS update in six years. You may not have realized it, but the landscape for your Windows PC shifted seismically earlier this month. For the first time in six years, Windows unleashed an update to its venerable operating system as Windows 11 rolled out... Read more ›
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One of the most beautiful things about Mac OS is that you don’t really need to do much for it to be truly functional—it already is. But if you want to do some customization, there’s very little you can do since the platform is designed to be minimalist. The good news is there are loopholes, and you can unlock features you didn’t know your Mac has if you knew how... Read more ›
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Earlier this month, Mailchimp released Content Optimizer, a new product that uses artificial intelligence to help improve the performance of email marketing campaigns. Thanks to its vast trove of data, Mailchimp is in a unique position to discover common patterns of successful marketing campaigns. Content Optimizer taps into that data and uses machine learning models and business rules to predict the quality of email campaigns and provide suggestions on how... Read more ›
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Facebook’s smart glasses ambitions are in the news again. The company has launched a worldwide project dubbed Ego4D to research new uses for smart glasses. In September, Facebook unveiled its Ray-Ban Stories glasses, which have two cameras and three microphones built-in. The glasses capture audio and video so wearers can record their experiences and interactions. The research project aims to add augmented reality features to smart glasses using artificial intelligence... Read more ›
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Google made a significant announcement for developers last night by reducing fees for recurring subscriptions to 15% or less for all apps. There are still tons of caveats and conditions to be eligible for that, so let’s dive right into it: If your app offers subscriptions (like Bumble or Spotify) through the Play Store payment system, you’ll have to pay 15% fees to Google. In March, the company had reduced... Read more ›
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According to the UN, we now have five times the number of recorded weather disasters than we had in 1970, from wildfires across Greece and Turkey to flash flooding in Indonesia, Germany, and Belgium. As Secretary General António Guterres said earlier this year, “we have reached a tipping point on the need for climate action.” The EU has set ambitious targets with its new Green Deal, namely the goal to... Read more ›
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PC’s may outnumber Macs in the real world, but as a tech journalist, I sometimes feel like the odd man out. I’m used to seeing a sea of MacBooks at big tech events — back when that sort of thing happened — with just a sprinkle of Windows laptops here and there. Yet even after Apple unveiled the new MacBook Pros, which seem to outclass their closest Windows competitors in... Read more ›
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NASA executives and experts struck an urgent tone with Congress earlier this week over discussions pertaining to the space agency’s nuclear budget. Oh, I’m sorry. Did I say NASA‘s nuclear budget? Surely not. Right? Here’s a meaningful quote via Paul Brinkman writing for UPI: ‘Strategic competitors including China are aggressively investing in a wide range of space technologies, including nuclear power and propulsion,’ Bhavya Lal, NASA‘s senior advisor for budget... Read more ›
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If you’re waiting with bated breath to ride a hyperloop, prepare to turn blue. I’m sorry, but it’s not going to happen anytime soon. But you might just be able to get a very poor second, a car ride in a tunnel. It’s courtesy of Elon Musk’s Boring Company, and if you are feeling underwhelmed, you’re not alone. Tunnels under the city of Las Vegas Vegas Loop is expanding –... Read more ›
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Boris is the wise ol’ founder of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox by signing up for his newsletter! The amount of time and effort I spend on being efficient is… highly inefficient. I’ll spend more time thinking about how to efficiently plan meetings than the... Read more ›
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TLDR: With SelectTV, all your streaming subscriptions and other viewing options are centralized and organized in one place, including a library of more than 500,000 TV shows and movies. When did the simple act of watching TV get so complicated? You probably never thought you’d be flummoxed by the process of checking in on your favorite TV shows or movies, but in the age of streaming, that can be a... Read more ›
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Our online privacy faces growing threats. Governments around the world are calling for encryption backdoors that would enable access to personal information. They argue that encryption protects criminals. But it also protects activists, dissidents, persecuted groups, and ordinary citizens. Edward Snowden is among the most prominent beneficiaries. The whistleblower’s first messages to journalists were made with encryption. They resulted in revelations that millions of Americans had been under illegal mass... Read more ›
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EVs are a green alternative and we love them for that. But they could be even greener if we regularly recycled the valuable metals their batteries contain instead of relentlessly squeezing Mother Earth. The good news is battery recycling has been getting traction, and there are now many companies in North America and Europe building recycling plants, including Li-Cycle, Northvolt, Redwood Materials, and ReLIB, to name a few. But here’s... Read more ›
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The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work. The big idea Even whenkids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television, or text– it doesn’t appear to be harmful. That’s what my colleagues and I at the University of Colorado Boulder discovered after analyzing data taken from nearly 12,000 participants in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study – the largest long-term study of its... Read more ›
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Once a year I’m hit with an impossible question: how the hell do you review the new iPhone? Do you write for the tech-heads who obsess over every details? The broader public who may only upgrade their phone every few years? Sceptics? Fans? There’s simply no right way. Making this even trickier is the fact the devices are now incredibly mature. This year’s model (the iPhone 13 in case you... Read more ›
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Facebook has announced a research project that aims to push the “frontier of first-person perception”, and in the process help you remember where you left your keys. The Ego4D project provides a huge collection of first-person video and related data, plus a set of challenges for researchers to teach computers to understand the data and gather useful information from it. In September, the social media giant launched a line of... Read more ›
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YouTube Music is a great alternative to Spotify or Apple Music. Even if you are a paid subscriber to those services, you can use YouTube Music’s ad-supported tier without paying anything. The company is now making a major change to how you can consume music on the app. Till now, you could either listen to the audio or watch the video of a track — even if you’re on the... Read more ›
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The year is 2025. You zip through customs in a fast-track lane to enjoy the one-year residency permit that will allow you to come and go as you please. Hop in an Uber and you’re headed to your temporary home, a boutique coliving space. You check in with the swipe of an app and funds are drawn from your e-wallet –no need to mess with ATMs or currency exchanges. Seamlessly... Read more ›
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