Apple announced a new Apple TV 4K that is powered by an A12 Bionic chip and brings a redesigned remote. The new streaming device will also support HDR with a high frame rate. It will allow you to play Dolby Vision videos recorded on your iPhone at 60 frames per second. The company claims that the new chip and HDR support will make movie and sports watching better. If you... Read more ›
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At long, long last, Apple’s AirTag is here. First rumored two years ago, the device leverages Ultra Wideband(UWB) technology to allow you to locate items with far more precision than traditional Bluetooth trackers, allowing you to know the item’s direction and distance. The AirTag is IP67 water and dust resistant and features a built-in speaker to help you find it. Somewhat surprisingly, it’s operated via a removable battery rather than... Read more ›
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The US Federal Trade Commission has issued a stark warning to companies using sexist and racist algorithms: hold yourself accountable — or the regulator will do it for you. An official blog post by staff attorney Elisa Jilson noted that the FTC Act prohibits the sale or use of racially biased algorithms. Jilson added that it’s illegal to use biased algorithms that lead to credit discrimination on the basis of... Read more ›
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TLDR: The Google Analytics Master Class Bundle is a learner’s introduction to all the data mining power of Google Analytics for understanding a website and its users correctly. There may be no tool for better understanding the internet than Google Analytics. With Google’s ultra-detailed picture of web traffic and full breakdowns on how each and every user interacts with a website, it’s an invaluable fact finder for understanding everything a... Read more ›
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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has had a significant win against Google. The Federal Court found Google misled some Android users about how to disable personal location tracking. Will this decision actually change the behavior of the big tech companies? The answer will depend on the size of the penalty awarded in response to the misconduct. Read more: ACCC ‘world first’: Australia’s Federal Court found Google misled users about... Read more ›
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The 2021 edition of Auto Shanghai opened yesterday, Tesla had an embarrassing moment — and it’s gone viral. Two women, both owners of Teslas, protested at the Tesla booth about the poor automotive quality of their cars, reports Global Times. They were wearing t-shirts saying “Tesla brake failure,” with the Tesla logo printed right underneath the words. That’s not all, one of the women climbed on top of the roof... Read more ›
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Banks have long embraced surveillance systems to prevent robbery. But they’re also using the technology to monitor customers, workers, and homeless people. Several US banking giants are implementing AI cameras to analyze customer preferences, track what staff are doing, and observe activities around their premises, Reuters reports. The tools are being used for a variety of purposes. Wells Fargo is leveraging the tech to prevent fraud, while City National plans... Read more ›
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Ecommerce was already a fast-growing industry at the beginning of 2020. Now it’s experiencing an unprecedented boom as billions of shoppers seek to replace their physical shopping carts with virtual ones. What’s more, customer loyalty has been uprooted and is now up for grabs. A study by McKinsey & Company found that consumer behaviors have changed drastically across the globe with extremely high numbers of consumers having tried new shopping... Read more ›
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Cast your mind back to last week, when images of a new electric car that looked totally like a Beetle surfaced from China. Well, that car has been officially unveiled at Auto Shanghai, and it’s great. It’s a four-door electric hatchback from Chinese EV brand Ora. It has a name now too: it’s called the Punk Cat. Maybe they should have called it the Copy Cat — oh meow! The... Read more ›
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The discovery of life on another world would be a monumental moment in the history of human civilization. The most likely way we will, one day, find alien life will be discovering chemical markers of life in the atmosphere of planets orbiting distant stars. One of these markers is oxygen, which currently makes up a little over 20 percent of the atmosphere of our own world. However, our own world... Read more ›
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Tesla figurehead Elon Musk has commented on the US crash in which two men died. Casting doubt on the situation, Musk’s input now asks more questions than it answers. Musk claims that Autopilot was not engaged at the time, and that the vehicle in question didn’t have the Full Self Driving package. Your research as a private individual is better than professionals @WSJ! Data logs recovered so far show Autopilot... Read more ›
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If you’re a social network, you have to have a Clubhouse clone on your platform. I don’t make the rules. Reddit is the latest to join the fold, and announced a live audio product last night. The product is called Reddit Talk, and it lets you voice chat with other folks on your subreddit in real-time. However, it’s currently in the test phase and you have to register your interest... Read more ›
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As part of its Play at Home initiative to keep gamers entertained while sheltering in place from the pandemic, Sony is offering up the blockbuster adventure game Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for free. You can snag it on PS4 and PS5 at no charge until May 14. Although it was released back in 2017, Horizon Zero Dawn remains a visually stunning action-adventure title that’s worth sinking several hours into.... Read more ›
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Apple is finally hosting its first event of the year tonight — but it’s still all digital. The ‘Spring Loaded’ event will likely feature updated iPad Pros with the firm’s own M1 chip and AirTags trackers (finally!). The company will start its cinematic-style pre-recorded keynote at 10AM PT/1PM ET/7PM CET/10.30PM IST. You can tune into the presentation through Apple’s own website or its YouTube channel. What can you expect from... Read more ›
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It was just a few days ago that we wrote about an experimental Facebook product that resembled Clubhouse, but it turns out Facebook isn’t done with the audio space. The company today announced a series of features coming to the social network that will provide users and creators with a variety ofnew tools to make and share audio experiences. The gist of it is that Facebook wants to put a... Read more ›
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Most fitness trackers are rather drab things. Sure, there are some smartwatches that toe the line between technology and fashion decently enough, but if you want a more basic device that emphasizes the fitness-tracking aspect, there isn’t too much to choose from. Fitbit is trying to fill this gap with its new $150 Luxe tracker. As one might presume from the name, it aims to be Fitbit’s most stylish tracker... Read more ›
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In wonderful news for far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists, Apple is letting Parler back onto the App Store. The iPhone maker banned the controversial app in January after receiving complaints that the service had been used to coordinate the siege on the US Capitol. The Silicon Valley giant also found posts on the social network that “encouraged violence, denigrated various ethnic groups, races, and religions, glorified Nazism, and called for... Read more ›
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Over the next 4 years, BMW expects that 25% of its sales in China will be made up of by EVs. This is an ambitious increase of 21%, compared to last year. BMW’s China Chief, Jochen Goller, revealed the German marque’s goal during the 2021 edition of Auto Shanghai today, Reuters reports. He also announced that BMW will launch 12 electric models in China by 2023. BMW, said Goller, is... Read more ›
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In 1994, physicist Miguel Alcubierre proposed a radical technology that would allow faster than light travel: the warp drive, a hypothetical way to skirt around the universe’s ultimate speed limit by bending the fabric of reality. It was an intriguing idea – even NASA has been researching it at the Eagleworks laboratory – but Alcubierre’s proposal contained problems that seemed insurmountable. Now, a recent paper by US-based physicists Alexey Bobrick... Read more ›
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The UK has joined the list of countries considering the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Chancellor Rishi Sunak today announced a new task force that will explore the value of a CBDC, which would be issued by the Bank of England and used by households and businesses. It would exist alongside cash and bank deposits, rather than replace them. Sunak (jokingly?) suggested the digital currency could be... Read more ›
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