Over the past six years, quantum science has noticeably shifted, from the domain of physicists concerned with learning about the universe on extremely small scales, to a source of new technologies we all might use for practical purposes. These technologies make use of quantum properties of single atoms or particles of light. They include sensors, communication networks, and computers. Quantum technologies are expected to impact many aspects of our society,... Read more ›
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Apple has honed on enhancing privacy across its devices aggressively for the last couple of years. So it wasn’t entirely surprising to see a dedicated privacy section at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) event last night. While there haven’t been any controversial features like anti-tracking, Apple made some notable announcements. Here’s a summary of it: iCloud+ This was probably the most eye-catching announcement in the privacy section. Apple’s debuting a... Read more ›
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WWDC 2021 happened today, and as usual, Apple had a ton of news to announce at the event. Then again, with no hardware to announce, it wasn’t exactly the most exciting WWDC of all time, but here’s the best of what we learned from the company’s virtual conference. iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 Apple announced iOS and iPadOS 15 today. Big surprise! The updates do bring some useful new features,... Read more ›
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We were told there’d be fully-autonomous vehicles dominating roadways across the globe by 2018. When that didn’t happen, we were told they’d be here by the end of 2020. And when that didn’t happen, we were told they were just around the corner. It seems like now the experts are taking a more pragmatic approach. According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, many computer science experts believe... Read more ›
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An algorithm has estimated that Manchester City starlet Phil Foden is the most valuable player in Europe’s “big five” football leagues. The CIES Football Observatory’s model predicted that the 21-year-old is worth a whopping €190.2M ($231.9M) in the transfer market. Foden’s England teammates Mason Greenwood (€178M) and Marcus Rashford (€159M) complete the podium, while Borussia Dortmund striker Erling Haaland (€155.5M) takes fourth place in the biannual list. Revealed ❗️ @CIES_Football... Read more ›
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Apple hosted its second all-virtual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in two years. And as always, iOS updates were one of the main talking points of the event. Here’s a look at all iOS 15 features the company announced today at the event: Apple is introducing spatial audio to facetime to make you feel like you’re sitting in the same room as the other callers. A new voice isolation feature will... Read more ›
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At WWDC today, Apple announced that iOS 15 will allow you to send your friends and family a link for a FaceTime call — like, you know, almost every other video calling service. While Apple sold the feature by saying it will allow you to schedule future FaceTime calls, this also allows for another new bit of functionality: FaceTime is coming to Android. It’s about time. We’re not just guessing... Read more ›
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The financial outlook for the global artificial intelligence market looks pretty good in 2021. But that’s nothing compared to the expansion experts expect to see over the next seven years. According to a recently released analysis report from Grand View Research, the AI market is expected to reach nearly $100 billion in 2021 and nearly ten times that by 2028. Per a report from Grand View Research: The global AI... Read more ›
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A new study has discovered a vulnerability in Twitter’s trending algorithm that makes the platform susceptible to astroturfing attacks. Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) found that the social network doesn’t consider whether a tweet has been deleted when determining which keywords should trend. As a result, attackers can artificially push topics up the list of Twitter Trends and then remove evidence of the manipulation.... Read more ›
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The AirTags are an extremely first-generation Apple product. In other words they’re well-designed, exciting, and… flawed. Did I want one as soon as I saw them? Of course. But am I confused about how it fits into my daily life? You betcha. So far, so Apple. I’ve now been using Apple’s trackers for over a month and while I’m impressed with the technical capabilities of them, I’ve yet to find... Read more ›
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TLDR: Setapp brings together more than 200 fantastic and fully vetted Mac and iOS apps for users to download, now at almost half off the regular price. If you need an app to edit some photos or manage passwords or track your finances on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad, where do you turn? If you plunge into the Apple App Store and start searching, there’s a decent chance you might... Read more ›
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TLDR: The 2021 Superstar Web Development and Design Bundle lets you pay what you want for 8 courses with over 150 hours of intensive, expansive web creation training. The web just keeps expanding. And with the insatiable need for pages and apps and digital experiences out there, the need for qualified and talented web developers is at a fevered pitch as well. Web developer is among the top 10 tech... Read more ›
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The British Department for Transport (DfT) plans to make EV charging points as iconic as the red phone boxes designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott back in 1926, The Telegraph reports. Specifically, the DfT is offering a £200,000 ($283,400) contract to a design team that can develop an “iconic, functional public electric vehicle charge point.” The government believes that, by making charging points more appealing to the eye, it can... Read more ›
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The wearable technology market is booming, with half a billion wearables sold globally in 2020. Apps on these devices, or the devices themselves, often claim to monitor our health to spot illnesses, track our workouts to help us reach our fitness goals, or keep an eye on our children’s whereabouts to enhance their safety. But they’re also divisive. Supporters of wearable technology claim that health trackers should be prescribed by... Read more ›
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Elon Musk and Uber have both made claims that there’d be millions of driverless taxis on our roads by now and, well, there aren’t. Most of us will have to wait a lot longer before we can take a ride in a one, but thanks to the wonders of the internet we can get a pretty good idea of what the experience is like right now. It’s important to note... Read more ›
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EV automakers have mostly relied on the skateboard chassis as the mainstream way of integrating a battery into an electric vehicle. But British start-up Page-Roberts revealed a concept with a vertical EV battery design, which it claims reduces manufacturing costs up to 36%, and enables 30% more vehicle range. Why? As per the company, the skateboard structure has two main disadvantages: increased size and weight. According to CEO Freddy Page-Roberts,... Read more ›
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Huge concrete data centers, permanently plugged into power plants and telephone exchanges, maintain much of online life. But the infrastructure behind internet-based cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, dogecoin and ethereum is more like a rusty traveling circus. And right now, that circus is on the road. Bitcoin relies on a network of millions of specialist machines, known as miners, around 70% of which are currently based in China. Like a never-ending... Read more ›
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How many days off have you taken in the last 12 months? Can you count those days on your fingers? Do you even remember the last time you took a proper break? When I started writing this article I double-checked how many days’ holiday I’d taken off in the last year and I was surprised by how low the number was. I’m sure many of you are in a similar... Read more ›
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When you buy a new phone and restore your WhatsApp account, the app verifies by sending you a six-digit code through SMS. However, the company’s working on another method to verify your account: flash calls. According to a report by reliable WABetaInfo, the chat app is testing this ability on Android. Here’s how it’ll work: you can opt-in to receive a call for verification instead of an SMS code. WhatsApp... Read more ›
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There are many things humanity must overcome before any return journey to Mars is launched. The two major players are NASA and SpaceX, which work together intimately on missions to the International Space Station but have competing ideas of what a crewed Mars mission would look like. Size matters The biggest challenge (or constraint) is the mass of the payload (spacecraft, people, fuel, supplies etc) needed to make the journey.... Read more ›
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