Tag: Gear / Gear News and Events
Omega’s AI Will Map How Olympic Athletes Win
From gymnast-tracking to pole vault measurements mid-jump, the watch brand’s Swiss Timing division has a whole host of new timing tech for Paris 2024. Source
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Dyson Has New Headphones That Don’t Cover Your Mouth This Time
Plus: Amazon made an ungodly amount of money on Prime Day, there are new Pixel phones (and a foldable) coming soon, and maybe that chatbot you’ve been talking to has been acting a little too human. Source
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Why the Global CrowdStrike Outage Hit Airports So Hard
The aviation industry is optimized within an inch of its life. A bad software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike took down computers running Microsoft Windows—and a cascade of airports with it. Source
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Prison Phone Call Fees Are Out of Control. The FCC Can Finally Rein Them In
The changes are expected to save incarcerated people and their families at least $500 million a year in exorbitant phone and video call fees. Source
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Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Everywhere. This Company Thinks It Has the Secret to Make Them High-End
It’s possible to grow gems in the time it takes to watch a movie, and main-street jewelers are selling examples for hundreds of dollars, not thousands. The race is on to save the value of the most precious stone. Source
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Lab-Grown Diamonds Are Everywhere. This Company Thinks It Has the Secret to Making Them High-End
Now that it’s possible to grow affordable gems in the time it takes to watch a movie, the race is on to save the value of the most precious stone. Source
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