Month: May 2023
Range Rover’s next luxury add-on: A car seat that vibrates to music
Many car makers will surround you with speakers in a bid to create immersive sound, but Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) thinks your seat can also play a role. The company's new Range Rover Sport SV Edition One includes Subpac-powered "Body and Soul Seat" tech (appropriately, BASS) whose headrest-mounted membranes and…
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The iPhone is dead — long live the iPhone
Many have predicted the death of the iPhone. We’ve been at Peak iPhone a bunch of different times. We’ve seen “stagnant growth,” “looming trouble,” and prognostications that other companies would steal Apple’s market share or that wearables or hearables or AR or VR or XR or SomethingElseR would usurp the…
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Slack facing widespread protests to introduce end-to-end encryption
More than 90 organizations have signed a letter addressed to Slack asking for end-to-end encryption to be made available on the communications and online collaboration platform, with lobbyists expected to descend on the company’s offices today in an effort to raise awareness. The request, which has been backed by the…
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Amazon Echo Pop Review (2023): Fun To Look At
The latest tiny addition to the Alexa family focuses on style rather than sound. Source
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Across the Spider-Verse is an animated masterpiece that upends Marvel’s Spider-canon
The concepts of multiverses and people traveling from one reality to another existed long before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. But the 2018 animated feature did such a tremendous job of using those ideas to define Miles Morales and deconstruct the very idea of Marvel’s iconic webhead that it almost single-handedly…
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Fraud of all kinds is only getting worse in the UK and EU
Digital fraud of all kinds across the UK and Europe is on the rise, with forced verification and deepfakes taking up a greater proportion of cases than before, new research has claimed. With regards to the deepfakes, its proportion in the UK rose from 1.2% during the whole of 2022…
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