Over the past four years, the medical world has changed. A thermometer alone isn’t always the best way to determine if we are sick. And seeing a doctor can be a lot like a Zoom call with a coworker.
Now, a new gadget from Withings, the maker of smart healthcare devices (such as a smart scale and health monitoring watches), promises to let people get a much clearer picture of their health, without having to learn new skills or buy a cabinet full of medical equipment.
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Just two weeks into the new year, it’s already been a hard time for the tech sector. Any hopes that the layoffs that began in 2022 and accelerated in 2023 would begin to subside have yet to be realized as more major companies joined other big players, including Unity and Amazon, in laying off workers just after the start of the year.
The latest companies to announce layoffs include:
- Discord: The instant messaging and communications platform tol
Companies call them prompts. Techies call them nags. Around the internet, the rest of us just call them pop-ups—and we hate them.
Nevertheless, pop-up windows are an endless bane of online life, despite whatever game of whack-a-mole we might try to play with ad blockers, browser plug-ins, or advanced settings.
Some Google search users have recently been reminded of this inevitable fact with the sudden emergence of a pop-up screen that asks them to share their precis
For students taking biology at Arizona State University, their first lab experiences are likely to involve extraterrestrial life.
The university has ditched traditional intro bio labs—the kinds where students learn to use a pipette or dissect an animal—in favor of a virtual reality experience set in a VR wildlife sanctuary for alien beings. It’s part of a partnership between ASU and VR entertainment company Dreamscape Immersive, cofounded by Men in Black produce
Carrie Goldberg has been waiting a while for this moment. A New York-based victim’s rights attorney, Goldberg has spent years taking tech firms to court over a range of alleged abuses of their platforms—from stalking and harassment to revenge porn and other online privacy violations. It’s been a tough gig: For nearly three decades, the law known as Section 230 has shielded online platforms from lawsuits that try to hold them liable for the content that their users po
Apple is asking its developers and partners to describe its forthcoming Vision Pro headset as a “spatial computing” device—a smart move that allows the company to sidestep the tedious AR-VR-XR nomenclature.
For years “virtual reality” has been used to describe headgear that blocks out the outside world and displays digital images that can move with the user’s head motions. “Augmented reality” has meant smaller glasses that disp
It’s just under 300 days until Election Day—but those in D.C. have already been thinking about the election for months.
All eyes will be on the presidential race, but votes cast on Nov. 5 also have the potential to make a big impact on the cast of characters who oversee NASA on Capitol Hill.
In the Senate
Ten of the 33 senators up for election this year serve on the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, including
Seth MacFarlane’s new series Ted marks the first time that an animated lead character was filmed in real time alongside other actors, according to MacFarlane’s production company Fuzzy Door.
The series, a prequel to the Ted movies debuting Thursday on Peacock, harnesses an augmented reality tool called ViewScreen Studio, developed by Fuzzy Door Tech, the production company’s technology unit. It allows the film crew to see digital assets, like the title animated
Tucked away in the parking lot of an easily overlooked hotel not too far from the Las Vegas Convention Center sits a red and white trailer with the word “Chill” sprawled across it. It’s one of the many CES adjacent displays that most people barely take note of as they hustle to and from appointments.
But sitting in that trailer, Balaji Krishnan is hoping to change the way people go to the movies.
Chill Theaters is a startup that looks to merge the thea
While many CEOs are mandating employees return to the office, the number of home workers continues to hover at historic levels, while office occupancy rates hit lows they haven’t seen in over 40 years. So, it’s not that surprising that beyond the TVs, smart cars, and other headline-grabbing gadgets at this year’s CES, there are also several items that target people who do their work out of a home office. Some are part of larger tech advances that will help more than just