Why Normal People Want to Work in Silicon Valley
“It was easy to get me to want something,” New Yorker columnist Anna Wiener confesses in her tech industry memoir Uncanny Valley, out today. She...
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Tigers and people in the slowly-sinking Sundarbans are on the frontlines of climate change
by Johan Augustin With the ocean swallowing up land in the world’s largest mangrove forest, humans and tigers are being squeezed into an ever-shrinking space...
Brain science’s biggest roadblock: Collecting better data without killing people
Historically, there has been no safe, non-invasive and/or efficient method with deep penetration for modulating the human brain in vivo—stimulating or suppressing certain brain processes...
Seattle startup Supporti helps people achieve goals, leveraging insights from public health research
Supporti co-founder and CEO Brigitte Granger. (Supporti Photo) Many people ring in the new year with ambitious resolutions, perhaps striving to lose weight, get more...
Before we augment people with tech, we’ll need proper rules
New technologies – from artificial intelligence to synthetic biology – are set to alter the world, the human condition, and our very being in ways...
Lexilife’s lamp helps people with dyslexia improve their reading ability
Lexilife, a French startup, unveiled a new lamp at CES in Las Vegas that is designed to help people with dyslexia read better. The lamp,...
TypingDNA raises $7 million for AI that identifies people by how they type
TypingDNA, a startup leveraging AI to identify people by the way they type, has raised $7 million in venture capital from Gradient Ventures and others.Read...
This startup is raising $7 million for a technology that can authenticate people based on their typing style
TypingDNA, a four-year-old startup that was founded in Bucharest, Romania and more recently moved its headquarters to Brooklyn, New York, looks to be raising $7...
WhatsApp adverts are coming in 2020 and people have threatened to delete their accounts
WhatsApp is going to introduce a new and controversial feature this year: adverts. The world’s most popular messaging service has more than 1.5 billion users...
How the tech industry is failing people with disabilities and chronic illnesses
30 percent of people under the age of 65 have a chronic health condition. Despite this prevalence, people with chronic illnesses or disabilities often face discrimination. Over...
Amazon is set to open a homeless shelter in its Seattle HQ with the capacity to serve 275 people, through an expanded partnership with nonprofit Mary's Place (Aria Bendix/Business Insider)
Aria Bendix / Business Insider: Amazon is set to open a homeless shelter in its Seattle HQ with the capacity to serve 275 people, through...
These were the people and events that made the internet curious in 2019, according to Wikipedia
Wikipedia announced 2019’s most popular articles, and almost all were about the biggest stories in entertainment and pop culture. Marvel films (and superhero flicks in...
Twitter bans animated PNGs to avoid triggering people with photosensitive conditions
File under: “This is why we can’t have nice things”. To counter abuse by people seeking to trigger seizures in those with photosensitive epilepsy, Twitter...
Motorola delays foldable Razr because too many people want one
Following countless leaks, Motorola’s foldable Razr was officially announced last month, and unlike a vast majority of handsets from phone makers not named Apple or...
New video shows the Apple Arcade games people can play this holiday season
What you need to know Apple has shared a new Apple Arcade video. It shows some of the games people can play this holiday season....