Design Thinking This reinvented screwdriver is the tool to end all toolsFast Company - Jesus DiazThe designers behind the Spinner Drive claim their universal screwdriver can handle any job. There’s no single screwdriver that can do everything, which why any worthy toolbox will have a variety of them
Gab Gab is forking Brave, and Brave is forking furiousdecryptmedia.com - Decrypt / Guillermo Jimenez Gab, the free-speech absolutist social media network, continues to look for creative ways to resist being silenced. Having earned a reputation as a …
Technology Bay Area food tech company prepares to unleash chicken-less egg proteins by 2020sfchronicle.com - Janelle Bitker Eggs do crucial work in a lot of baked goods, and vegan alternatives like flax seeds don’t taste or perform quite the same. By bioengineering yeast …
Rhubarb The English vegetable picked by candlelightBBC Travel - By Mike MacEacheranForced rhubarb – a vegetable deprived of sunlight for extra sweetness – has been eaten in Yorkshire for centuries. Now the culinary treasure is having a renaissance. At first there was a pop, then a mesmerising
Soil Washington Set to Be the First State to Allow the Composting of Human Bodiesslate.com - Jane C. Hu I live in Seattle, where we take being green very seriously. Our electric utility, Seattle City Light, was the first in the nation to reach carbon …
Carbon Carbon, the fast-growing 3D printing business, is raising up to $300MTechCrunch - Kate ClarkCarbon, the poster child for 3D printing, has authorized the sale of $300 million in Series E shares, according to a Delaware stock filing uncovered by PitchBook. If Carbon raises the full amount, it reach
Google Maps AR might be the best thing that ever happens to Google Mapsbgr.com - Chris Smith Google Maps is one of the most dependable navigation apps available, and a must-have on all smartphones, even if they ship with a different default …
Google Maps Google knows everywhere you go — here's how to stop it from tracking you and delete the logsCNBC - Todd Haselton Google knows a lot about you and, if you use Google Maps or other Google apps, it stores a copy of everywhere you go. I recently performed Google's …
Spying New App Tells You When Your Smart Speaker Is Spying On Youfuturism.com - Dan Robitzski Double Agent Your internet-connected devices share a lot of the information that they collect about you, even when you’re not actively using them. To …
California California governor signs internet sales tax lawAssociated PressSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's Democratic governor has signed a law requiring companies like Amazon and eBay to collect sales taxes on behalf of some out-of-state sellers. The law comes after U.S.
Andy Rubin Ex-Google Star Rubin Spars to Keep Divorce Fallout SecretBloomberg - Joel Rosenblatt and Pamela MacLean Andy Rubin, the Android creator at the center of a sex harassment scandal at Google, is fighting an uphill battle to block the public release of a …
Uber Uber Aims for an IPO Valuation of as Much as $90 BillionBloomberg - Olivia Zaleski, Eric Newcomer Uber Technologies Inc. is aiming for a valuation of about $80 billion to $90 billion in its initial public offering, just above its last private …
Samsung Galaxy Fold Galaxy Fold: The real deal with the screen crease, notch and air gapCNET - Jessica Dolcourt We know about the Fold's screen problems. Now let's talk about the screen itself.
Technology The Rise of Live-Streamer StyleThe New York Times - By LUKE WINKIEMatt Haag wasn’t exactly dressing to impress during his teenage years on the competitive Call of Duty circuit. The 26-year-old recalled, sheepishly, the basketball shorts and Payless kicks he wore on to
Play buttonLong-form Journalism Startups are racing to commercialize DeepFakes’s powerful, internet-breaking AIFast Company - Mark WilsonA slew of startups are using AI to push the boundaries of media manipulation–and they all promise to have ethics in mind. A little over a year ago, an anonymous Reddit user named Deepfakes changed the
Play buttonTechnology Brain Implant Device Allows People With Speech Impairments to Communicate With Their Mindssmithsonianmag.com - Maddie Burakoff With advances in electronics and neuroscience, researchers have been able to achieve remarkable things with brain implant devices, such as restoring …
Technology Decoded Brain Signals Could Give Voiceless People A Way To TalkNPR - Jon HamiltonScientists have found a way to transform brain signals into spoken words and sentences. The approach could someday help people who have lost the ability to speak or gesture, a team from the University
Health (UK) 'Exhilarating' implant turns thoughts to speechBBC News - By James GallagherScientists have developed a brain implant that can read people's minds and turn their thoughts to speech. The team at the University of California, San Francisco says the technology is "exhilarating".
Elon Musk Elon Musk: Brain-Computer Interface Update “Coming Soon”futurism.com - Victor Tangermann Neuralink SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at what could be the announcement of a brain-machine interface that could one day hook human brains up …
Health (UK) Parkinson's results beyond researchers' wildest dreamsBBC News - By Pallab GhoshA treatment that has restored the movement of patients with chronic Parkinson's disease has been developed by Canadian researchers. Previously housebound patients are now able to walk more freely as a
Technology Training Artificial Intelligence to Predict Alzheimer’s Diseaseundark.org - Rod McCullom It’s challenging to diagnose Alzheimer’s cases early and accurately, but scientists are hoping AI can be applied to brain scans to help. As many as …
Technology UAE woman Munira Abdulla wakes up after 27 years in a comaBBC News - BBC WorldA woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in 1991 has made a seemingly miraculous recovery after emerging from a 27-year-long coma. Munira Abdulla, who
Technology Researchers Introduce 'Lifelike' Robot That Can Move, Eat and Die Using Artificial MetabolismMashable - Natasha MathurResearchers have been making massive ‘jaw-dropping’ strides in robotics lately. We’re already aware of Sophia, the ‘almost human’ robot created by former Disney Imagineer David Hanson, that can inspire
Technology A machine learning device, meant to monitor the chronically ill, moves into homesstatnews.com - Casey Ross He said the device is most commonly used by patients with heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, conditions that come with high …
Technology The FDA Just Approved a New Sugar Alternative Called Allulose—How Healthy Is It?Cooking Light - Lauren Wicks Allulose has 70 percent of sugar's sweetness and fewer calories. It sounds too good to be true—a sugar alternative that has 70 percent of sugar's …
Technology Tristan Harris: Tech Is ‘Downgrading Humans.’ It’s Time to Fight BackWIRED - Nicholas Thompson A year ago, you couldn’t go anywhere in Silicon Valley without being reminded in some way of Tristan Harris. The former Googler was giving talks, …
Technology Former Googler outlines how Big Tech can stop "downgrading humanity"Axios - Ina Fried Tristan Harris, the former Googler who helped popularize the notion of "time well spent" laid out the shift he says the tech industry needs to make …
Technology The Affluent Homeless: A Sleeping Pod, A Hired Desk And A Handful Of ClothesNPR - Sam SandersMore young people are leaning into the rental or sharing economy — owning less of everything and renting and sharing a whole lot more. Housing, cars, music, workspaces. In some places, such as Los Angeles,
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