The case for an AI that puts nature and ethics first,...
Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to bringing the biggest names in tech to showcase inspiring talks from those driving the future of technology this year? Tim Leberecht, who authored this piece, is one of the speakers. Check out the full ‘Impact‘ program here. On July 20, 1969, the first human landed on…
Designers should understand users make most decisions without rational thinking
Susan Weinschenk is a behavioral psychologist and her book 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People was one of the first books I read about the psychology of design. Since then she has been my hero. In one of her online classes, Brain and Behavioral Science, she states that around the year 2000, researchers within the…
Scientists discover strong evidence of life on Mars
We’ve been expecting aliens from Mars for decades now, but what if life was vanquished on the red planet before evolution ever got the chance to take hold? A pair of researchers recently published an analysis of 3.5 billion-years-old soil samples from Mars containing chemical compounds called “thiophenes” that could, potentially, be organic. If they…
Oppo’s flagship Find X2 Pro announced with 65W charging, Snapdragon 865
The Find X2 Pro. Here you can see the fingerprint reader location. Oppo The back. Oppo A closeup of the camera lenses. Oppo That camera bump looks pretty tall. Oppo Let's peel off the back. Oppo We definitely want to look at all the exploded camera lenses. Here's the main sensor. Oppo The ultra-wide/macro lens.…
Scientists say supermassive black hole once belched a crater into a...
We’ve seen what happens when stars go supernova and suns explode but scientists believe the biggest explosion in the history of our known universe was the result of a black hole with indigestion. A team of researchers working out of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC recently conducted a detailed study of one our…
Apple’s new App Store policies fight spam and abuse but also...
Enlarge / The front of the 2019 iPad Air.Samuel Axon Earlier this week, Apple notified app developers of a revised set of App Store review guidelines—the rules by which Apple curates its iOS/iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, and macOS App Stores. Among many other things, the revised rules expand the definition of what constitutes a spam app,…
Clearview AI can be fun — if you’re dirty, stinking rich
After scraping the web for billions of our photos, making dubious claims of accuracy, and marketing its software to countries with authoritarian regimes, Clearview AI has somehow reached yet another new frontier in dystopian facial recognition. According to the New York Times’ Kashmir Hill, America’s elites have been using the software as a plaything. They…
The YMCA is trialing robot lifeguards to prevent pool drownings
Coral Detection Systems, an Israel-based AI startup, is in the business of saving lives. It’s “Manta 3,000” is a nifty ray-shaped autonomous camera system that monitors swimming pools for drowning victims. Drowning is the third leading cause of death by unintentional injury, with more than 320,000 annual fatalities worldwide. In the US alone, nearly 400…
This AI detects eye disease in newborn babies
A new AI device can identify babies at risk of going blind by analyzing images of their eyes. The system could help save the vision of babies born prematurely, who are particularly at risk of damage to their retinas, as the fragile vessels in their eyes can leak and grow abnormally. If this worsens, the…
Apple warns staff of product shortages, but IT workers have already...
Enlarge / An exterior view of the Apple Store on the Chicago River.Apple Apple has re-opened all of its retail stores in China, business publication Bloomberg reports, but the company also notified its tech support workers that some products and supplies could be in short supply in the immediate future. The company sent a memo to…
