Form Swim Goggles Review: Fitness Tracking at the Pool
When my mother uses an elliptical machine, she covers the screen with a towel. She says she doesn’t want to “become obsessed” with when it […]
Amazon Says It Can Detect Fear on Your Face. You Scared?
Amazon announced a breakthrough from its AI experts Monday: Their algorithms can now read fear on your face, at a cost of $0.001 per image—or […]
Robot Coffee Tastes Great, But at What Cost? (About $5)
Airports have robot coffee now. But first, consider that moment—you’ve experienced this—where your multiply delayed flight finally lands, maybe at the airport you expected and […]
Back-to-School Sales for 2019: Best Tech Deals We Could Find
The air is cooling, the days are getting shorter, and the school-goers among us are returning to their desks and carrels kicking and screaming. Don’t […]
The Serious Money Is Warming to Bitcoin
There’s an arms race afoot over who can store cryptocurrency safest. Perhaps you’d like your bitcoin buried in a vault under a mountain in the […]
What Does Amazon’s ‘Top Brand’ Badge Actually Even Mean?
Amazon’s biggest asset can also be a headache for its customers. The so-called “everything store” really does sell almost any item consumers might want, but […]
Instagram Now Fact-Checks, but Who Will Do the Checking?
Facebook Thursday said it would expand a fact-checking program to its Instagram image-sharing service. Instagram users in the US can now report content they believe […]
Apple Puts the AR in ‘Art’ (and in ‘Transparent Sky-Being’)
Thanks to a hot desert air mass stalling over San Francisco, the sky was a fogless blue, which made the words stand out even more […]
Domino’s and the Web are Failing the Disabled
Pizza always finds itself at the cusp of innovation. It was the first food sold online, the first food purchased with Bitcoin, and the first […]
Gadget Lab Podcast: The Dirty Wars Inside Google
For years, Google has flourished in large part because of its famously open internal structure. Leadership encouraged active and vocal communication between employees who held […]