Wear OS 3 watch ups ante for Android wearables, now faster and feature-packed with body-fat scanner The Galaxy Watch 4 is Samsung and Google’s attempt to combine efforts and compete with Apple’s smartwatch – and it gets about 80% of the way there. The Android smartwatch comes in two designs and four sizes, starting at …
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As activity tracking goes mainstream, an arsenal of consumer technology is rolling out for sleep. But how much do these interventions help? At 2.16am, I stumble to the bathroom. I catch a glimpse of myself. The light from the red bulb is flattering – I’ve been told to eliminate all blue light on my nocturnal …
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TikTok, Twitter and Facebook among companies bringing in new measures worldwide that protect children TikTok has turned off notifications for children past bedtime, Instagram has disabled targeted adverts for under-18s entirely and YouTube has turned off autoplay for teen users: moves seemingly triggered by Britain introducing a new set of regulations aimed at protecting children …
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The pandemic prompted a surge in the use of workplace surveillance programs – and they’re not going away any time soon David, 23, admits that he felt a twinge of relief when the first wave of Covid-19 shut down his Arlington, Virginia, office. A recent college graduate, he was new to the job and struggled …
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Is that little flickery square in the corner of the screen the real me? Something has become clear. I need to face up to my face. I’ve taken precisely two selfies in my life, and have long shunned mirrors. My face is a thing that I wear on my head, for protection of health and …
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The site in Boca Chica, south Texas is surrounded by protected lands that host a huge range of local wildlife including turtles and hundreds of bird species Everything seemed normal as SpaceX’s Starship juddered into the sky over south Texas last March, tangerine flames and white smoke pluming behind it. But roughly six minutes into …
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While the west is unlikely to follow the three-hour gaming limit for children, developers would be unwise to dismiss it too quickly Being a parent can feel, at times, like leading an authoritarian nation of one. You control what your subject can read, who they can speak to and what they can do; you deal …
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How much do these two generations understand about the lives of the other? We listened in on five family discussions to find out Bob Smith sits upright on the sofa as his grandson, Louis Brow, prepares to quiz him on youth slang. We are sitting in the living room of Louis’s family home in Ilkley, …
Company says it will ‘collect input and make improvements’ after backlash from privacy groups Apple will delay its plans to begin scanning user images for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) before uploading them to the cloud, the company says, after a backlash from privacy groups. The company’s proposal, first revealed in August, involved a new …
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Group of workers launched campaign to gather and share experiences of inequity, intimidation and abuse at company A group of Apple workers is organizing to fight against what it says are patterns of discrimination, racism and sexism within the company and management’s failure to address them, in a rare public display of dissent within the …
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