Artificial intelligence often doesn’t work the same for Black people as it does for white people. Sometimes it’s a matter of vastly different user experiences, like when voice assistants struggle to understand words…
Month: February 2021
Google Photos brings some of the Pixel’s best features to other phones (for a price)
We’ve known for a while that Google Photos has been considering ways to monetize some of its best features, and today we got a good look at how that’ll happen. The company…
Speak less, communicate better
Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur in tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his…
New micromobility coalition aims to create simple and consistent pan-European policy
This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities…
‘Hear’ this Kandinsky painting with Google’s psychedelic AI tool
Google has launched a new AI tool that lets you listen to the sounds that famed artist Vassily Kandinsky may have heard as he painted. The experiment explores the artist’s synesthesia, a neurological…
Spider legs build webs without the brain’s help — and could inspire robot limbs
Arachnophobes often cite spiders’ unpredictable movement as the basis of their fear, pointing out how each spindly leg seems to lift, flex, and probe with a menacing degree of autonomy. Perhaps unsettlingly,…
Scotland’s free EV chargers make the rest of the UK look stingy
Nothing in life comes for free. Except nobody seems to have told the highland nation of Scotland that. According to figures from UK EV charging infrastructure trackers Zap-Map, Scotland has the most…
California Supreme Court declines Prop 22 appeal from disgruntled Uber drivers
This article was originally published by Christopher Carey on Cities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities…
Here’s how to do PR when your product is a SECRET
The inherent nature of working in public relations is communicating with the public… hence the term “public.” However, in a strange twist of events, we’re sometimes asked not to communicate (but to…
Did you know you can copy and paste between Apple devices? YOU DO NOW
I have been living the life of a fool. If I needed to copy and paste something between my iPhone and Mac, I would either email it to myself or use a…