If you’ve ever felt your noisy open-plan office makes you cranky and sends your heart racing, our new research shows you aren’t imagining it. Prior to the pandemic 70% of office-based employees worked in open-plan offices. Employee complaints about this design are rife. Yet there is little experimental research investigating the effects of office noise on things like cognitive performance, physiological stress , and mood. The results of our study,... Read more ›
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OpenAI has once again made the headlines, this time with Copilot, an AI-powered programming tool jointly built with GitHub. Built on top of GPT-3, OpenAI’s famous language model, Copilot is an autocomplete tool that provides relevant (and sometimes lengthy) suggestions as you write code. Copilot is currently available to select applicants as an extension in Visual Studio Code, the flagship programming tool of Microsoft, GitHub’s parent company. While the AI-powered... Read more ›
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Earlier this week, GitHub took down a hateful site that targeted Muslim women and put them on sale. The website, named Sulli Deals, is a derogatory term used for Muslim women. The site first came to notice on Sunday, but there’s no information yet on who made it. The website was active for at least 20 days before it was taken down on Monday, and had photos of more than... Read more ›
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On June 25, astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Thomas Pesquet successfully completed an almost seven-hour EVA (extravehicular activity, or spacewalk) to install solar panels on the International Space Station. What does it take to don a spacesuit and venture out on such a technical and dangerous mission? Surprisingly, one of the main criteria (besides the years of astronaut training) is body size. EVA capabilities blossomed during the era of NASA’s space... Read more ›
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We’ve seen plenty of instances when a social media handle of a company has tweeted something that seems like a response from a personal account. It’s human to err, and forget to switch accounts when tweeting. A concept from Lena Emara, a product designer at Twitter, will hopefully prevent you from doing this. Here’s how it works: when you’re tweeting, the app will show you the account the tweet will... Read more ›
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Today Nintendo announced the Nintendo Switch again. That is, what is officially and very creatively dubbed the Nintendo Switch (OLED model), parentheses and all. It’s pretty cool! It has a bigger and better screen, ethernet compatibility, and improved speakers. It features a wider, adjustable kickstand, and it doubles internal storage to 64 GB. It even comes in a panda color. These are all welcome improvements, and my colleague Callum, at... Read more ›
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I’ve tested a fair few JBL bookshelf speakers here at TNW. The JBL L82 Classic paired a retro aesthetic with acoustics that emphasized an expansive soundstage, while the HDI-1600 was a more modern take on speaker design with a deep horn/waveguide for focused, sharp imaging. Well, what if you want both a retro design and a horn-type sound? JBL has a hi-fi speaker for you too: the $2,000 JBL 4309.... Read more ›
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The teenage joy of late-night gaming sessions faces an uncertain future in China. Tech giant Tencent has launched a time-sensitive facial recognition system that prevents minors from binging on video games after dark. The platform, called “Midnight Patrol,” arrives amid a moral panic over gaming addiction among children in China. Under-18s are now barred from gaming between 10PM and 8AM, and must register for games using their real names and... Read more ›
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Welcome to SHIFT Basics, a collection of tips, explainers, guides, and advice to keep you up to speed with mobility tech. As we’re moving towards a more sustainable transportation model, electricity will gradually replace petrol and diesel in our cars. Personally, I can’t wait for the EV domination, but I caught myself wondering: do I really know how an electric engine works? Turns out, there were indeed some gaps in... Read more ›
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Nextdoor is the latest company seeking to go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). The neighborhood social network said the deal would give the business an equity value of around $4.3 billion. Up front: Nextdoor announced its plan after usage surged during lockdowns. The app, which neighbors use to communicate with each other, reported a 50% annual growth in daily active users last year. Instead of... Read more ›
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TLDR: The Espresso WFH Touchscreen Display and Accessories Bundle helps turn any device into an on-the-go work or playstation you can use virtually anywhere. We’re all looking for more versatility these days from virtually everything. Nowhere is that more evident than with our powerful mobile devices. We want them to do everything, but considering we have to pack more and more gear with us to get everything done, we’d like... Read more ›
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A “pro” version of the Nintendo Switch has been rumored forever — and now it’s… kinda here? But also not? Anyway! Say hello to Nintendo’s OLED Switch. Or the Nintendo Switch (OLED model) if you prefer dumb names. That’s right you beautiful people, a new Nintendo Switch will be hitting the shelves on October 8. It will come with a 7-inch OLED screen (YES!) and has a recommended retail price... Read more ›
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The Big Apple versus The Big Orange. The City of Dreams versus The City of Angels. I’m referring, of course, to the ongoing rivalry between New York City and Los Angeles. Hilarious “survey” videos and talk shows will give you one picture of the cities. My colleagues and I decided to take a more serious look at the differences between the cities, so we studied what everyone else was talking... Read more ›
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We’ve already been blown away by Rimac’s breathtaking Nevera, the all-electric hypercar that goes 0-60mph in just 1.85 second. But here’s another bombshell from the Croatian automaker… Rimac announced on Monday that it’s taking over the 110-year-old Bugatti brand from Volkswagen to form a joint venture, called Bugatti Rimac. And if that’s not the best match in the automotive world, I don’t know what is. Seriously. Credit: Bugatti RimacThe Bugatti... Read more ›
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The Indian government has said that Twitter has lost its intermediary status, and in turn its ‘safe harbor‘ in the country as it has failed to comply with the latest social media policing rules. The authorities argued in Delhi High court that the social network has lost its immunity as per India’s IT rules. Twitter has failed to appoint local officers including a chief compliance officer, a grievance officer, and... Read more ›
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A Belgian artist has devised a novel way to catch misbehaving politicians: automatically tagging the rogues who use their phones at work. Dries Depoorter is using AI to monitor YouTube videos of Flemish government meetings. When the stream starts, his software uses machine learning to find phones in the footage, and facial recognition to identify politicians using the devices. Videos of the distracted lawmakers are then posted to the Twitter... Read more ›
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XTube, a pornography site, owned by MindGeek, will shut down permanently on September 5. At the time of publishing, there is no definitive statement on why XTube, part of the Pornhub Network, is closing. But the clues are there. MindGeek has controversially become the largest pornography business in the world. It both owns adult video platforms — such as Pornhub, RedTube, and YouPorn — and production companies, like Brazzers Digital... Read more ›
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Four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill, a member of the “Not My President” Facebook group wrote in a post, “remember, our founding fathers were seen as terrorist [sic] and traitors.” A fellow group member commented, “I’ll fight for what’s right, this corruption has to be stopped immediately.” Three months later, Facebook recommended the group to at least three people, despite Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s repeated promise... Read more ›
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Today’s world of software development is different from the proprietary software of years past. Open source enables speed, agility, and flexibility. APIs connect disparate processes into ecosystems of solutions that easily plug into each other and speak a shared language. While software development itself is now extremely collaborative, I’d say the process of hiring and upskilling talent in this world is just the opposite. It’s fragmented with siloed teams and... Read more ›
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June has come and gone, but not without providing us with some insights on the ever-changing car market. Specifically, What Car has revealed the stats of the new car sales in the UK and the best-selling car is… well, we’ll get to that. First, let’s talk about fuel. Petrol vs. Diesel vs. Electricity Out of the 186,128 vehicles sold, 59% were powered – unsurprisingly – by petrol. So let’s call... Read more ›
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