Month: July 2020

Bored in the house and you’re in the house bored? This rotating gadget takes the effort out of capturing fun, quirky videos.

Two new research papers try to shed some light on a popular theory, but the evidence is still very weak—and could point to confirmation bias.

These e-bikes will help you navigate the streets of New York, San Francisco or wherever you are. And we’ve got picks for almost any budget.

The AirPods Pro are getting simulated surround sound. But it could also be the secret sauce in its rumored full-size noise-canceling headphones, the so-called AirPods Studio.

I don’t know why, but yesterday was a day for Google peripherals. There were three or four pieces of news that were all harbingers of future products that you might use in conjunction with an Android phone. But while it’s getting easy to divine what’s going to happen with Android phones thanks to all the leaks, it’s still very unclear what Google really intends to do with watches, smart glasses, or even its Stadia controller.

Google’s hardware division acquired the smart glasses company North — which comes on the heels of the last year’s Fitbit acquisition. This is a weird one! Google still makes Glass, but has specified that it’s meant mainly for industrial purposes. North made a valiant run at consumer smart glasses, including…

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Developers need to test in hotspots, but those keep changing. And they must avoid ethical problems, like testing in low-income areas but only selling in rich ones.

A lack of dedicated funding and resources made it hard to keep data secure—and that was before classes moved almost entirely online.