CES went digital for obvious reasons this year. I missed the serendipity associated with strolling up and down alleys of startups and wandering around corporate booths. It was much more difficult to…
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Elon Musk claims Neuralink created a brain implant that a monkey is using ‘to play video games with his mind’
Elon Musk claims his startup Neuralink has connected a chip to a monkey’s brain that the primate is now using to play video games with its mind. Musk said Neuralink is currently developing brain implants that…
How much does it cost to buy, own, and run an EV? It’s not as much as you think
At the start of 2021, Norway broke records when it announced that electric vehicles officially made up over half of its automotive market share. Now that legacy car companies, like Volvo, are…
The 29 words that’ll make you want to buy an EV — or so says UK gov
The UK government is really keen on getting drivers into electric vehicles. Like, really keen. It’s so keen in fact, that it’s not only banned the sale of new combustion engine vehicles,…
Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 31.8 MILLION copies — here’s some silly math on it
I know Nintendo is an international company whose main goal is making money, but despite this I can’t help feeling it’s a cute little upstart that’s mine and mine alone. Sometimes though, it’s…
Knocki is the smart home device controlled by gestures you never realized you needed
TLDR: The Knocki is a brilliant knock-activated smart trigger that can do everything in your home from turning on lights, playing music, setting your thermostat and more. Remember The Clapper? The sound-activated…
Check if your photos were used to develop facial recognition systems with this free tool
If you’ve uploaded any photos to the web in recent years, there’s a good chance they’ve been used to build facial recognition systems. Developers routinely train facial recognition algorithms on images from…
Twitter blocks users in India from viewing the tweets of several major accounts
Twitter has withheld multiple prominent accounts in India, including Caravan magazine, pro-farmers organization Kisan Ekta Morcha, and the Communist Party of India’s (Marxist) Puducherry account.[novideo] The social network didn’t specify the reason…
Police say they can use facial recognition, despite bans
Mere hours after supporters of former president Donald Trump forced their way into the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, sleuths, both amateur and professional, took up the task of combing through the…
Google punches itself in the face by discontinuing the Pixel Slate
Imagine, if you will, a runner five miles into a marathon. At this stage they would have barely started, covering just 20% of the overall distance. Now picture that person stopping mid-stride and…