Google’s more useful SOS alerts will navigate you away from danger
Two years after their original introduction, Google is updating its SOS Alerts with more real-time information about areas affected by natural disasters, and new navigation warnings in...
Intel’s Project Athena could make laptops better, if only it had teeth
Roughly eight years ago, Intel flexed its enormous power as one of the PC industry’s leading component manufacturers to improve the quality of the...
An exclusive look at Intel’s wild gaming laptop prototype
By: Sean Hollister, The Verge
It’s called the Honeycomb Glacier
If I’m being honest, the phrase “Honeycomb Glacier” makes me think of a frosty dessert with a...
North Face tried to scam Wikipedia to get its products to the top of...
It swapped Wikipedia photos with its own product placement shots.
The North Face, in a campaign with advertising agency Leo Burnett Tailor Made, hatched a...
A photo storage app used customers’ private snaps to train facial recognition AI
Photo app Ever pivoted its business without informing users
A photo storage app that offers users “free, unlimited private backup of all your life’s memories”...
Google’s prototype AI translator translates your tone as well as your words
It also the first AI translator that translates directly from audio input to output
We all know that communication depends on more than just what...
Boston Dynamics prepares to launch its first commercial robot: Spot
Spot the robot will go on sale later this year
Boston Dynamics’ lifelike robots have been delighting and terrifying the internet in equal measure for years, but the company...
Amazon launches AI-powered ‘Shazam for clothes’ fashion search
StyleSnap uses machine learning to find similar clothes and styles
Amazon is a behemoth of online retailing, but there’s one sector it has yet to...
Update WhatsApp now to avoid spyware installation from a single missed call
NSO Pegasus spyware can turn on a phone’s camera and mic and collect emails, messages, and location data
A vulnerability discovered in Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging...
ZombieLoad attack lets hackers steal data from Intel chips
A newly discovered security flaw in Intel processors allows attackers to steal any data that’s been recently accessed by the processor. That even holds...
