Small upgrades on last year’s best iPhone, now with twice the starting storageThe iPhone 13 is a minor upgrade to last year’s brilliant iPhone 12, with an improved camera, larger storage longer battery life and a small price cut.Apple’s latest regular-…
Design’s dirty secrets and how to address experience bias
If the solution to experience bias is variation in front-end design based on the needs of the individual, one way we can radically accelerate that is to understand where automation can be applied.
Facebook whistleblower to claim company contributed to Capitol attack
Former employee is set to air her claims and reveal her identity in an interview airing Sunday night on CBS 60 Minutes A whistleblower at Facebook will say that thousands of pages of internal company research she turned over to federal regulators prove…
Trump asks judge to force Twitter to reinstate his account
Company suspended former president’s account in January following the attack on the US CapitolDonald Trump has asked a federal judge in Florida to force social media giant Twitter to restore his account, which the company suspended in January following…
Screens doubled as babysitters during lockdown. What now? | Emma Brockes
Karate, ballet, after-school club … keeping children occupied without technology is exhausting. But worth itIt has been more than a year since most kids had a regular schedule entailing full-time school and a slate of extracurricular commitments. In Ne…
Robots: stealing our jobs or solving labour shortages?
From fast food to farming, Covid-19 has accelerated the rise of the worker robots. This in turn will put more jobs at risk and makes the need to reframe society ever more urgentAs the coronavirus pandemic enveloped the world last year, businesses incre…
The truth about artificial intelligence? It isn’t that honest | John Naughton
Tests of natural language processing models show that the bigger they are, the bigger liars they are. Should we be worried?We are, as the critic George Steiner observed, “language animals”. Perhaps that’s why we are fascinated by other creatures that a…
Grocery Store Opens ‘Chat Registers’ For Lonely Customers
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: A Dutch supermarket chain says it will introduce 200 “chat registers” in its stores for customers who aren’t in a hurry and want to have a chat during checkout. The initiative, announced by the popu…
Biden Administration To Convene 30 Countries To Crack Down on Ransomware Threat
The White House will convene a 30-country meeting this month to try to ramp up global efforts to address the threat of ransomware to economic and national security, President Joe Biden said in a statement shared exclusively with CNN. From a report: “Cy…
Last day for early-bird savings on TC Sessions: SaaS 2021
All good things must come to an end, and this proverb totally applies to our early-bird price on passes to TC Sessions: SaaS 2021. Today’s the final day you can save $100 on the price of admission, folks. Join the global SaaS community to connect, inspire, network and learn how to build a stronger startup […]