Apple Maps turns seven in September. When it launched, it was so bad at the basics of mapping like getting you from point A to B that it became an iconic example of an Apple failure. Yet in recent years, it’s moved closer to being what it…
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First self-driving bus is now serving customers in New South Wales, Australia. It is serving the Marian Grove Retirement Village in Toormina, a suburb of Coffs Harbour. Using the BusBot app (iOS and Android), users will be able to hail the…
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The online activist group Fight for the Future is calling for a Federal ban on facial recognition surveillance. Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future, compared facial recognition to nuclear or biological weapons: while we…
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Black Hole Explorer NASA just awarded SpaceX a contract to launch what the agency’s calling a “groundbreaking astrophysics mission:” NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, which could one day allow astronomers to uncover…
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A window film with a specially designed molecule could be capable of taking the edge off the worst midday heat and instead distributing it evenly from morning to evening. The molecule has the unique ability to capture energy from the sun’s…
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Navigating airports can be tricky. They’re loud, crowded and not always laid out intuitively. They’re even more challenging for visually impaired people. Chieko Asakawa knows those challenges firsthand, and she has also devised a remedy.…
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Communication is the most important tool we have when it comes to teamwork especially in remote work. But as an engineer, in the past I’ve focused more on code than communication. Although I talked to people, my output was writing code and…
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It’s astonishing to think how much of the world has changed thanks to the internet. It’s difficult to think of another recent technology that has so totally changed how people experience the world – the invention of the telephone well over…
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Walmart, the largest private employer in the U.S. with 1.5 million workers, is using virtual reality to help find candidates for management positions in all 4,600 stores, the Wall Street Journal reported. The VR headsets and the assessment…
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