Compact earphones have a central hole so you can hear what is going on around you while you listen or talk Personal audio has taken a bizarre turn with Sony’s latest attempt to reinvent the earbud. The weird doughnut-shaped speaker with a hole in the middle allows you to listen to music without blocking out …
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People living in a Lagos care home are enjoying a break in routine with a virtual mix of therapy and entertainment delivered via headset In the living room of the Regina Mundi care home in Lagos, 70-year-old Baba Raphael hauls himself up from his chair and puts on a virtual reality headset. For nine minutes, …
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Ellis Parry created the Alfred app to help the rehabilitation process after his twin brother suffered a devastating accident Identical twins Luke and Ellis Parry were studying engineering at Oxford in 2012 when Luke suffered a devastating brain injury after falling from a balcony. Doctors told Ellis that his brother only had hours to live. …
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Employees within Meta say the move amid the standoff with the Morrison government was no accident Get our free news app; get our morning email briefing Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Three hours into Facebook’s Australian news blackout on 17 February 2021, a concerned employee sent a note to colleagues …
Clearview AI was fined for using internet-sourced images of UK residents in its database – but not before police forces used its service Last week, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) slapped a £7.5m fine on a smallish tech company called Clearview AI for “using images of people in the UK, and elsewhere, that were …
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The billionaire has received loans and tax breaks to help keep Tesla afloat, now he says other companies should go bankrupt for the good of the economy With the invasion of Ukraine and lockdowns in China putting added pressure on a supply chain that has yet to recover from the ongoing pandemic, many are predicting …
Creating a machine that can perform the delicate work of picking an apple is tricky – and farmworkers say it could be a benefit Robots can do a lot. They build cars in factories. They sort goods in Amazon warehouses. Robotic dogs can, allegedly and a little creepily, make us safer by patrolling our streets. …
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A chance array of possessions gave the camera-shy Spanish stylist the inspiration for a revealing self-portrait Almudena López Calafate is no hoarder, but she doesn’t like to throw things in the bin unnecessarily. The red roses on her bedroom dressing cabinet were from her then boyfriend – a gift given with love – and she …
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Patricia Collinson, 87, unwittingly ordered an Amazon subscription for app to say a prayer When my 87-year-old mother, Patricia Collinson, was given an Alexa speaker by my sister, she was delighted to find she could ask it to say the Hail Mary. Every morning for a week the devout Catholic asked Alexa to recite the …
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Marc Lamont Hill and Todd Brewster’s brilliant book considers the history of communications technology in a racist society Nearly all the books I have read about the internet have deepened my fears about the net effect of social media on the health of our body politic. For example, I thought three facts from the congressman …
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