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Stranger Things season 4 won’t be the last one – but the show’s ending is planned null
Stranger Things season 4 hasn’t resumed filming yet, but creators the Duffer Brothers aren’t planning for this to be the final season of the show. In fact, the pandemic has allowed them to plan ahead on the sci-fi/horror Netflix series – they know how it ends, and they know how…
Read MoreBluetooth update could turn wearables into COVID-19 trackers
Billions of people have smartphones, but not everyone has them, and they’re not the only smart devices folks have access to. Older people, and young kids, have valid reasons for not owning one, which excludes them from the phone-based contact-tracing… Source
Read MoreWhere to sit on the school bus just got a lot more complicated
During a normal year, an estimated 15 million students ride the bus to school every weekday in the US — about a third of all K–12 students. But health and safety precautions as a result of COVID-19 mean far fewer kids will find a seat on the bus as the…
Read MoreFacebook avatars take over South Africans’ newsfeeds null
You may have noticed that your Facebook has been flooded with little cartoons popping out to say “hi”. This is because Facebook has launched avatars in South Africa, and people can’t get enough of them. The avatars are customisable cartoon versions of yourself. Similar to Apple’s Memoji, users can create…
Read MoreThe Nubia Watch is a decadent OLED smart bracelet
Some of the first credible reporting about the “Apple iWatch” I remember reading described it as being “made of curved glass.” The eventual Apple Watch did use curved glass to an extent, of course, but it wasn’t really a defining feature of the product. After all, in 2013 The New…
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