Category: Technology

Just about every major health and fitness category is covered, including activity, sleep, nutrition, body measurements, and vital statistics like blood pressure and heart rate. Users get full control over which categories of data are pooled and which aren’t, and everything is stored locally on their devices (rather than in the cloud) and encrypted for […]

Scooters are electric vehicles, so there are a few things you should and shouldn’t do if you get one. First, if you’ve never ridden an electric scooter and are nervous about shelling out for one, try a rideshare service. Companies like Lime, Lyft, and Bird let you grab an escooter for not a lot of […]

“There are some configurations of the future that don’t correspond to anything in the past,” Cotler said. “There’s nothing in the past that would evolve into them.” Giddings has proposed a similar principle for ruling out paradoxical states he encountered while studying black holes last year. He calls it “history matters,” and it holds that […]

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was founded in 1988 after scientists had spent decades raising the alarm about global warming. Thirty-five years later, there is effectively zero binding international policy to address climate change. In the United States, the largest historical emitter of greenhouse gasses and second-largest polluter today, there have been repeated legislative […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) depicts the growing ecosystem of online everything, linked objects that share our reality — and the coming trends. The Internet of Things trend is here to stay. It is definitely not the willow-the-wisp that some had predicted years ago. The business internet developed to include great opportunities with phones, office […]

Getty Images It’s a creepy feeling, isn’t it? You’re in a store, you buy something and then you get the little screen turned toward you. It’s the screen that tells you how much you’re about to pay. It’s also the screen that wonders how much you’d like to tip. The store salesperson looks at you. […]

Getty Images Peak travel season is upon us, which means everyone must fulfill their tasks of packing enough clothes to wear, ensuring that all the essential tech gadgets are accompanied by the right charger, and praying that everything comes together in luggage that’s just shy of the weight limit. Perhaps that luggage comes in the form […]

Meta’s Data2vec is an example of a generalist neural network that can use the same exact code to crunch examples of data in different modalities — in this case, speech, text, and images — and make predictions about that data. Baevski et al. What do you do when you’ve proven your point in neural networks? […]

Getty Images I often wonder about companies and the ideas they have. more Technically Incorrect Do they always think them through? Do they feel pressured by internal or external forces, of the social or political kind? And how do customers truly react when a company thrusts an idea upon them, especially an idea the company […]

Somnox 2 for $599: Offering all the same features as the original in a more compact package with better battery life and an improved speaker, the Somnox 2 (6/10, WIRED Review) can help you drift off. The addition of Bluetooth streaming (iOS only for now) to listen to your own choice of content is also […]