Month: April 2019

Companies use recommendation engines to tell you what to buy, read, and watch. But those algorithms aren’t your friends. Read the original post by Zeynep Tufekci

A surfeit of ugly knowledge is a feature of our age. But when information is everywhere, some things are better left buried. Read the original post by Douglas Preston

A back seat that transforms into a throne, front seats that swivel to face one another—Nissan’s IMs concept shows what designers do when tech liberates […] Read the original post by Alex Davies

Fully autonomous cars may never arrive. But we’ll all benefit from self-driving tech while we wait. Read the original post by Alex Davies

Apple wants us to believe that augmented reality will be a transformative technology. I want to believe it. It sure as heck feels like it […] Read the original post by Leif Johnson

From a mouse that continuously charges to a luxuriously cushy headset, this desktop gaming equipment will help you unleash your full potential. Read the original post by Jeffrey Van Camp

Clip you phone into one of these controllers to play _Fortnite_ and more—with no latency and plenty of joysticking. Read the original post by Michael Calore

The emergence of worker-owned apps could save the gig economy from itself. Read the original post by Clive Thompson

At a startup run by autonomous vehicle mastermind Sebastian Thrun, the dream of flying cars is starting to become reality. But expect flight delays. Read the original post by Alex Davies

The AI engine that powers this stunning TV can transform any HD or 4K content into impossibly detailed 8K nirvana. Read the original post by Michael Calore

A nearly endless array of game options helped the cartridge-fed console dominate the living room for years. Read the original post by Jonathon Keats

The world’s premier traffic-busting app has a plan for when traffic never ever gets better: get us all to share commutes, and become … friends? Read the original post by Aarian Marshall

Recently, the business of getting paid to promote a company via your social media has spread pandemic-like. Read the original post by Paris Martineau

Where new headsets like the Oculus Quest and HTC Vive Focus Pro really shine is their ability to help us interact more freely with other […] Read the original post by Peter Rubin

Ridership on the city’s bus system is plummeting, so the transit agency is redesigning it—with the help of location data from about 5 million cell […] Read the original post by Adam Rogers