The rocket engineers were giddy Thursday, cheering through their face masks. Applauding, virtually high-fiving and wishing they could hug each other to celebrate when NASA’s massive Space Launch System rocket finally successfully completed a key test of its main engines. It was a moment of triumph for the space agency, which over the past year […]
Face masks have become an everyday item due to the spread of coronavirus. But now some brands are exploring ways to add hi-tech features focused on safety and utility. BBC Click’s Lara Lewington tried out some of the more elaborate “smart” masks on offer. See more at Click’s website and @BBCClick Let’s block ads! (Why?) […]
SEATTLE — Amazon will face its first union vote on U.S. soil in seven years on Feb. 8, when ballots will be mailed to warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala., for an election that could emerge as a major labor battle at one of the country’s largest employers. A National Labor Relations Board hearing officer ruled […]
Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence. LONDON — In Sri Lanka and Myanmar, Facebook kept up posts that it had been warned contributed to violence. In India, activists have urged the company to combat posts by political figures targeting Muslims. And […]
Reuters A new security law being unveiled on Tuesday threatens telecoms giants with hefty fines if they fail to tighten security. The Telecommunications Security Bill bans the involvement of Chinese firm Huawei in the UK’s 5G mobile network. But it also says that companies which fail to meet deadlines for higher security requirements could face […]
Huawei, in the face of challenges in the smartphone space, is exploring one of the more difficult products in the wearables space, smartglasses, to propel the brand forward. It’s new offering is the Huawei X Gentle Monster Eyewear 2 — and it’s about as risky as tech products get. Wearables, in particular smartglasses, need to enhance […]
Amazon says it will produce hundreds of thousands of face shields for medics and sell them at cost price in the US. The internet giant said engineers from its drone and hardware divisions had been tasked with developing the product. At first, it will sell them to healthcare professionals, before making them available to all […]
Apple has just announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) will be held on June 22. And just like when Apple told the world its gala show would be online-only, it seems there’s a huge hint in the promotional artwork. So, what are we looking at here? Apple’s WWDC poster depicts three Memoji characters staring […]
Enlarge / The TrueDepth sensor array on the iPhone. Samuel Axon Apple’s Face ID method for authenticating on recent iPhones offers a number of security benefits, and it’s a neat trick to boot. But in a pandemic-stricken world where many people either opt to or are even required to wear protective masks, users have discovered […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — Google’s and Facebook’s advertising businesses, which have roughly tripled in combined size over the last five years, may be headed for a rare stumble as the coronavirus pushes the global economy into a tailspin. Once-abundant travel and entertainment ads have all but disappeared from Google search. The prices for Facebook advertisements are […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended people wear face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but this has caused a dilemma for iPhone owners reliant on Face ID to unlock their devices. While a person is wearing a face mask for protection against the new coronavirus, the obstruction will cause the Face […]
Google today released a demo app that visualizes a real-time point cloud from uDepth, the stereo depth sensor built into the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. As the tech giant explains in a lengthy post, uDepth taps machine learning to identify users while protecting against spoof attacks; it supports a number of features, including […]
The Pixel 4 XL. Ron Amadeo The many sensors in the Pixel 4’s top bezel. Ron Amadeo / Google In the right lighting conditions, you can begin to make out the components hidden in here. Most cutouts are for the 3D face unlock system. Ron Amadeo We have the white version, which looks great with […]
Facebook’s corporate mission is to “bring the world closer together,” but as the coronavirus continues to endanger lives around the world, one of the company’s designers has come up with a novel tool to keep people a little further apart. Operating under her fashion-technology brand Lumen Couture, Oculus design manager Chelsea Klukas has introduced a […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook demonstrates the company’s face shields in a Twitter video. Tim Cook Apple CEO Tim Cook took to a Twitter video to announce that the company will design and make face shields for medical workers battling the COVID-19 crisis, to the tune of one million shields per week. This announcement follows already […]