I sometimes ponder how successful I’d be in charge of a phone that gets updated every year. In my less lucid moments, I believe I’d navigate the choppy waters magnificently, each year…
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These 3 companies are making the products you use everyday sustainable
You may be a recycling freak, have an array of solar panels decorating your roof, and only buy green label clothing — but is there more you could be doing to tackle…
Want your iPhone 12 to come with a charger? Go to Brazil
In September, Apple said that it’ll stop shipping a power brick with the Apple Watch. The next month, the company followed it up by removing the wall charger from the iPhone 12 range….
The COVID-19 vaccine is on its way — but don’t ditch your mask just yet
The UK has become the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for widespread use. The government has ordered 40 million doses and the first batch of 800,000 doses is expected to…
Ingenious Canadian invention turns boring bicycles into snow conquering ebikes
Here on SHIFT, we’ve covered conversion kits that turn your regular bike into an ebike to help you power up hills. But what about when it starts to snow? Well, there are…
Huzzah! Apple enables HD FaceTime calls on iPhone 8 through iPhone 11
I’ve been using video calls to stay in touch with friends a lot because of the coronavirus pandemic. And I really appreciate it when apps and devices have features to make the…
How AI-powered video compression could make an honest man out of Elon Musk
“LIDAR is a fool’s errand. Anyone relying on LIDAR is doomed. Doomed! Expensive sensors that are unnecessary. It’s like having a whole bunch of expensive appendices. Like, one appendix is bad, well…
Study shows how AI exacerbates recruitment bias against women
A new study from the University of Melbourne has demonstrated how hiring algorithms can amplify human gender biases against women. Researchers from the University of Melbourne gave 40 recruiters real-life resumés for jobs at…
A foolproof guide to image manipulation in Python with OpenCV
Whether you want to build a complex deep learning model for a self-driving car, a live face recognition program, or making your image processing software for your graduate project, you will have…
Astongate: Aston Martin exec behind ‘PR firm’ peddling bogus anti-EV study
Strap yourselves in folks, because we’ve got a wild one for you. It’s perhaps the wildest story since General Motors decided it would be a good idea to acquire hydrogen truck startup…