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Diplo previews his new album in the meditation app Calm
This year has been a roller coaster of emotions for a variety of reasons, and as such apps for mental well-being have been in the spotlight quite a bit. Calm, one of the most popular meditation and sleep apps out there, scored a somewhat unexpected b… Source
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Facebook’s OASIS-style VR playground Horizon enters public beta
Did you forget that Facebook was building the OASIS? The company has been working on its multiplayer virtual reality social space, Horizon, for a while now, which is comparable in concept if not scope to the fantastical VR world of Ready Player One. This week the company announced it’s expanding…
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Prisoners at San Quentin are dying from COVID, and help isn’t coming
When the test came back positive, Quinn* felt like he was getting a second sentence. “I believe that they sent COVID here to kill us. Simple as that,” he says. He’s a father living at San Quentin State Prison and one of over 2,200 inmates who’ve tested positive for COVID-19.…
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Alexa, Play My Alibi: The Smart Home Gets Taken to Court
This week, we discuss the growing trend of data from smart speakers and other connected devices being used to solve crimes. Source
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The Morning After: Meet LG’s face-hugging personal air purifier
Luxe tech is a wonderfully insane category that defies logic, preying on the flush bank accounts of people that don’t know how much a banana costs. Bang & Olufsen usually strikes a good balance between thousand-dollar gadgetry, design and functio… Source
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Google’s new web standard could disable your ad-blocker null
A new web specification tabled by Google could have serious ramifications for the privacy of internet users and the transparency of the web, a researcher has warned. According to a blog post from Peter Snyder, Senior Privacy Researcher at Brave Software (developer of privacy-focused web browser Brave), Google’s new Web…
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