Why 2020 was a pivotal, contradictory year for facial recognition
“The Clearview story really freaked a lot of people out—as it should,” says Jameson Spivack, a policy associate at Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy...
My 2021 cloud computing New Year’s resolutions
Typical New Year’s resolutions focus on personal and professional development—ways to improve. Although I certainly have personal goals of no interest to anyone but myself,...
Current spacesuits won’t cut it on the moon. So NASA made new ones.
The most interesting work, however, has to do with NASA’s next-generation spacesuit for astronauts going to the moon—the eXploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit, or xEMU....
The real cost of smart speakers
This holiday season, you’re likely to know someone who buys or receives a smart speaker. One in five US households already have one,...
The LG Wing’s Swiveling Screen Proves Phones Can Be Fun Again
I wouldn't have called the last LG phone I reviewed " too bland" if I knew months later I'd be using an LG phone...
This technology could start saving lives tomorrow, but the Nationals won’t let it happen...
While NSW Police do their best, they can't have eyes everywhere.
Every year thousands of people are breaking the law by speeding. As the Herald...
The Cosmic Dawn of Technology – Scientific American
We are late bloomers, cosmologically speaking. The first stars formed as early as a tenth of a billion years after the big bang. The...
Bash 5.1 brings back older behavior
Bash 5.1, described as the fifth major release of the Unix and Linux shell in a release bulletin, was published earlier this month, featuring...
Vaccines are the latest battleground for doctors on social media
For a long time, anti-vaccine misinformation pushers have used anecdotes to back up false claims: YouTube videos of mothers discussing how they believe a...
Joe Biden has an opportunity to bolster how we view Earth from space
But each year, Congress intervened to save these missions. OCO-3 launched on time in 2019. PACE and CLARREO took some budget cuts but are...
