L’Oréal is giving the hair dryer a long-overdue makeover.
“Over the last 100 years, since the first invention of the hair dryer, people have been drying their hair in the same way,” says Guive Balooch, global managing director of augmented beauty and open innovation at L’Oréal.
The standard hair dryer found in homes and salons uses convection heating, which are thermal rods that turn orange as they heat up, with a motor powering wind t
Recently, Microsoft built a clock.
Well, “built” may be overstating things. Members of the company’s quantum computing team found a small digital clock in a wood case on Amazon—the kind you might mistake for a nicer-than-usual trade show tchotchke. They hacked it to run off two experimental batteries they’d created in collaboration with staffers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Then they dressed u
The Biden administration enacted a new labor rule Tuesday that aims to prevent the misclassification of workers as “independent contractors,” a step that could bolster both legal protections and compensation for millions of gig workers in the U.S. workforce.
The Labor Department rule, which the administration proposed 15 months ago, replaces a scrapped Trump-era standard that lowered the bar for classifying employees as contractors. Such workers neither receive fe
Unity Software, maker of the popular cross-platform game engine used by developers across the globe, has announced the first major tech layoffs of the new year. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) dated January 8, 2024, Unity Software said it will cut “approximately 1,800 employees,” which it says equates to about 25% of its current workforce.
The layoffs are the largest in Unity Software’s history and the fourth round of cuts since Jul
Moxie, a playful robot that first got attention for helping kids with loneliness and anxiety through the COVID-19 pandemic, is getting an AI upgrade and picking up some tutoring skills.
The tabletop bot from AI company Embodied makes eye contact and carries on audio conversations with kids and was initially focused on helping children meet social and emotional milestones. Later this year, it’s gaining the ability to engage kids on reading, math, science, and social studies, o
Your drive into the office likely takes longer than ever. Your holiday travel plans may have been delayed, then delayed again. And you’ve probably noticed how common it is for the driver next to you to be distracted by the blue glow of their phone.
Whether you’re stuck in rush hour traffic, behind an erratic and dangerous driver, or witnessing a crash on the side of the road, it’s easy to feel like our transportation system is moving in the wrong directionȁ
“Our threat is from within,” Donald Trump told his supporters at a Veterans Day campaign rally in New Hampshire. “We pledge to you that we will root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country.”
The remarks prompted outrage and comparisons to Nazi Germany. Dehumanizing political opponents erodes public trust in the democratic system by creating an “us versus them”
If you thought artificial intelligence was inescapable last year, just wait.
OpenAI might have skipped this year’s CES, but AI is still everywhere at the show—and, before long, many of the products on display here will be making their way to retail. Some of those products have an obvious real-world value, but others might seem a bit of a stretch. Either way, even if you’ve avoided dabbling in AI so far, it’s only going to get harder and harder to circumve
There’s one thing that television viewers can count on in 2024: higher fees and more commercials.
The major streaming services—Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Max—have all announced rate hikes and new advertising policies.
As I show in my new book, 24/7 Politics: Cable Television and the Fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News, the streaming boom that has imperiled cable television is actually built upon the very same business m
On the same day that Apple announced it would start shipping its new Apple Vision Pro headset in the U.S. on February 2, the brand launched a new ad to hype the mixed-reality piece of hardware.
Created by TBWA Media Arts Lab, the spot is called “Get Ready,” and is a pop culture ride th