Month: November 2024

What can be achieved with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is evolving on a daily basis – from photography to ecology, humanitarian relief to surveying – but, despite technological developments, the industry itself looks a little like the past. While the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) doesn’t keep track of the gender of those applying for permission…

The company’s new AI features for the iPhone actually work Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. Apple’s new iPhone features are the first time a Big Tech company has made AI useful for normal people. Apple; Getty Images; Alyssa powell/BI This story is available exclusively to Business Insider…

David Nordfors Contributor More posts by this contributor Vinton Gray Cerf, a co-founder of i4j — innovation for jobs, is widely hailed as one of “the fathers of the Internet”. Cerf was a manager for the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funding groups to develop TCP/IP technology and currently serves as the…

In the UK, the average fridge temperature is 7C; at between 0C and 5C milk would last for three more days. Photograph: Oppenheim Bernhard/Getty Images Most of us feel guilty about wasting food – and the stats are hard to swallow. Roughly one-third of the world’s food is thrown away every year – that’s approximately…

Welcome to Dispensed: A weekly dose of pharma, biotech, and healthcare news Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Hello! Welcome to Dispensed, your weekly dose of the biotech, pharma, and healthcare stories that kept Business Insider’s healthcare team busy this week. I just got back from Seattle — stay tuned next week for some stories gathered from my…

Small Businesses It’s a good time to get a loan but also to take advantage of tax reform and keep pace with tech. Image credit: Hero Images | Getty Images Tom Sullivan and Melissa Bercier Guest Writer Sullivan: Head, Small Business Policy, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; Bercier: Small Business Owner and Chamber Member December…

The Canadian technology brand is creating a new way to experience smart glasses, with high-touch retail locations in Brooklyn and Toronto that enable personalized fit and function The development and adoption of wearable technology has had an interesting trajectory. While wearables and fitness tracking technology took off, accessories like Google’s Glass and Snap’s Spectacles failed…

NBC NBCUniversal is trying to stave off the shift of TV dollars to digital platforms. The TV company is expanding its use of its cross-measurement system, CFlight, in 2019. It’s also continuing to cut ad clutter and make ads more relevant. Linda Yaccarino, chairman of NBCUniversal’s advertising sales and partnerships, took some bold steps in…

Home Chemistry Analytical Chemistry November 27, 2018 November 27, 2018, US Department of Energy Fusing microfluidics and robotics, scientists have developed a new sampling platform that is providing never-before-possible insights into proteins in human, animal, and plant cells. Credit: US Department of Energy When working to unlock a cell’s secrets, collecting and delivering the samples…

Governments and private companies are deploying AI systems at a rapid pace, but the public lacks the tools to hold these systems accountable when they fail. That’s one of the major conclusions in a new report issued by AI Now, a research group home to employees from tech companies like Microsoft and Google and affiliated…

Office Tech Digital transformation offers something for every company — although that something may be different in every case. Image credit: Sunwoo Jung | Getty Images Rashan Dixon Guest Writer Co-founder of Techincon and Senior Business Consultant for Microsoft December 11, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Every company…

More posts by this contributor The next few years will see voice automation take over many aspects of our lives. Although voice won’t change everything, it will be part of a movement that heralds a new way to think about our relationship with devices, screens, our data and interactions. We will become more task-specific and…

Bob O’Donnell, Special for USA TODAY Published 5:14 a.m. ET Dec. 27, 2018 A monochromatic bird’s-eye view of a city with multiple connected wireless points(Photo: GETTY IMAGES)MAUI, Hawaii—After a relatively ho-hum 2018 for mobile phones, 2019 is looking to be gangbuster year for smartphones and the whole wireless industry.In addition to the launch of foldable…

New technology allows researchers to look beneath the layers of the Dutch master’s works, revealing some macabre details.Image“The Battle Between Carnival and Lent,” painted by Pieter Bruegel the Elder in 1559. Using infrared and X-ray technology, researchers uncovered changes that have been made to the work over the centuries.CreditCreditKunsthistorisches MuseumAMSTERDAM — What would happen if…

This past January, a woman was walking along a road in Tumwater, Washington when a man pulled her into the woods and raped her. This rape might not have happened had police quickly processed evidence from the sexual assault exam — or “rape kit”— from another Tumwater rape the previous summer. But because it took…

Australia‘s government signed a bill into law last week giving law enforcement agencies the right to force technology companies to reveal users’ encrypted messages. Another way of putting it: Australia‘s tech scene will soon be located on the Wayback Machine. The law was introduced as the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill…

Chinese researcher He Jiankui claims he helped make the world’s first genetically edited babies using a tool called CRISPR, the Associated Press reported. He claims the babies— a pair of twin girls — were born this month. In a presentation at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong, He raised the…

Kevin Seifert, ESPN Staff WriterJun 13, 2024, 06:30 AM ETCloseKevin Seifert is a staff writer who covers the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL at ESPN. Kevin has covered the NFL for over 20 years, joining ESPN in 2008. He was previously a beat reporter for the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Washington Times. He is a…

Before the birth of modern technology, designers specialized in exquisite hand lettering. And designers today pay homage to the legacy of vintage signage with extraordinary retro typefaces.Curated from the font sections of GraphicRiver and Envato Elements, this collection features 25 nostalgic vintage typefaces that are sure to bring back amazing memories.Need a custom font for…

Technology has changed the meaning of how we interpret security and privacy in this digital millennium. We’ve made tools that can prevent major vulnerabilities, with years of research, and debugging, to finally prevent disruptions in our workflow from occurring. What we forget is, the biggest enemy to security is still a human being or as…

Credit: Zephyr/Science Photo Library A day after news broke of a Chinese scientist who claims to have helped make the world’s first genome-edited babies, researchers fear the startling announcement will hinder their efforts to safely translate gene-editing technology into treatments. As scientists gathered for the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong…

For the ongoing series, Code Word, we’re exploring if — and how — technology can protect people against sexual assault and harassment, and how it can help and support survivors. **Trigger warning** The following article describes graphic scenes of sexual violence in video games. In Custer’s Revenge, Civil War commander General Custer needs to get from…

1 / 10People hold a sign at a Vancouver, British Columbia courthouse prior to the bail hearing for Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer on Monday, December 10, 2018. Meng Wanzhou was detained at the request of the U.S. during a layover at the Vancouver airport on Dec. 1.(Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)VANCOUVER, British…

The big news today is that — finally — we have Amazon’s selection of cities for its dual second headquarters (Northern Virginia and NYC). Then some notes on China. But first, semiconductors and open sourcing analysis. We are experimenting with new content forms at TechCrunch. This is a rough draft of something new — provide…

As this particularly trying year mercifully draws to a close, we have only one thing to say to 2018: Thank you, next.  To celebrate the conclusion of the year, we’re rounding up the 10 best Mashable Shop deals on gadgets from 2018, all of which you can still snag for the next few days only.…

The most important room in the house. Photograph: Tom Kelley Archive/Getty Images Chances are, you’re reading this in your kitchen. It’s not only regularly voted the most important room of the house, but it’s also the place we spend more money on than any other – filled, as it is, with the latest smart home…

Qualcomm’s next-gen mobile chip, the Snapdragon 855, is official and will be looked back as a cornerstone to the 5G-ification of everything. The world’s largest mobile chipmaker held back on sharing extensive details during the first day of its annual Snapdragon Technology Summit in Maui, Hawaii on Monday. But now the curtain’s been fully lifted…

Bitcoin We need to recognize that the true value of the entire crypto market is in its underlying technology Image credit: Jetta Productions Inc | Getty Images December 4, 2018 6 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The spike in the price of Bitcoin at the end of 2017 caused a…

While loneliness is experienced by all ages, it’s especially pronounced in older people. In the UK, 51 percent of all people aged 75 and over live alone and approximately 6 percent of older adults leave their house once a week or less. An increasing proportion of these older adults live in rural areas. In an age when…