Facebook’s smart glasses ambitions are in the news again. The company has launched a worldwide project dubbed Ego4D to research new uses for smart glasses. In September, Facebook unveiled its Ray-Ban Stories…
Month: October 2021
Android devs, rejoice! Google will take less of your cash — here are the details
Google made a significant announcement for developers last night by reducing fees for recurring subscriptions to 15% or less for all apps. There are still tons of caveats and conditions to be…
Here’s one reason why SMEs aren’t meeting sustainability targets
According to the UN, we now have five times the number of recorded weather disasters than we had in 1970, from wildfires across Greece and Turkey to flash flooding in Indonesia, Germany,…
The new MacBook Pros look amazing, but I just want a MacPad
PC’s may outnumber Macs in the real world, but as a tech journalist, I sometimes feel like the odd man out. I’m used to seeing a sea of MacBooks at big tech…
NASA wants to build nuclear space craft — what could go wrong?
NASA executives and experts struck an urgent tone with Congress earlier this week over discussions pertaining to the space agency’s nuclear budget. Oh, I’m sorry. Did I say NASA‘s nuclear budget? Surely…
I asked for a hyperloop but all I got was a Boring tunnel in Las Vegas
If you’re waiting with bated breath to ride a hyperloop, prepare to turn blue. I’m sorry, but it’s not going to happen anytime soon. But you might just be able to get…
Don’t be perfect, people hate it
Boris is the wise ol’ founder 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…
SelectTV can pull your entire streaming universe together in one place for life for under $80
TLDR: With SelectTV, all your streaming subscriptions and other viewing options are centralized and organized in one place, including a library of more than 500,000 TV shows and movies. When did the…
Edward Snowden: ‘If you weaken encryption, people will die’
Our online privacy faces growing threats. Governments around the world are calling for encryption backdoors that would enable access to personal information. They argue that encryption protects criminals. But it also protects…
Are recycled EV batteries as good a new ones? Yes! A thousand times yes!
EVs are a green alternative and we love them for that. But they could be even greener if we regularly recycled the valuable metals their batteries contain instead of relentlessly squeezing Mother…