There are about 45 million people in the US alone with a mental illness, and those illnesses and their courses of treatment can vary tremendously. But there is something most of those people have in common: a smartphone. A startup founded in …Continue reading
Soon your doctor will be able to wirelessly track your health—even through walls
Imagine a box, similar to a Wi-Fi router, that sits in your home and tracks all kinds of physiological signals as you move from room to room: breathing, heart rate, sleep, gait, and more. Dina Katabi, a professor of electrical engineering and …Continue reading
Say goodbye to Alexa and hello to gadgets listening to the voice inside your head
Controlling your gadgets by talking to them is so 2018. In the future, you won’t even have to move your lips. A prototype device called AlterEgo, created by MIT Media Lab graduate student Arnav Kapur, is already making this possible. With Kapur’s …Continue reading
Twitter wants to reduce the “health” of its conversations to four numbers
Twitter needs a checkup. After years of failing to stomp out trolls, hostility, hoaxes, and other ills, the company is asking for proposals to measure the “health” of conversations people have on its platform. The goal is to create metrics for the …Continue reading
Amazon’s cashier-less Seattle grocery store is opening to the public
In the shadow of Amazon’s offices in downtown Seattle, people enter a tiny grocery store, take whatever they want, and then walk out. And nobody runs after them screaming. This is what it’s like to shop at Amazon Go, the online retail …Continue reading
Leading the push for a more secure Internet
Adrienne Felt, 30 Google Chrome The next time you open up Google’s Chrome Web browser, take a look at the little green icon that appears in the left corner of the URL bar whenever you’re on a secure website. It’s a lock, …Continue reading
I Tried Shoplifting in a Store without Cashiers and Here’s What Happened
7Say goodbye to the glitchy self-checkout scanners in your local retail store. Grocery buying is about to get a big boost from artificial intelligence. At a prototype store in Santa Clara, California, you grab a plastic basket, fill it up as you …Continue reading
Franziska Roesner
What would hacks of augmented reality look like? Imagine a see-through AR display on your car helping you navigate—now imagine a hacker adding images of virtual dogs or pedestrians in the street. Franzi Roesner, 31, recognized this challenge early on and is …Continue reading
After Trying the Desktop of the Future, I’m Sticking with the Past
For the past few days I’ve augmented my reality at work, adding virtual displays to my office so that, while wearing a special headset, I can do things like type e-mails and…
Your Next Password May Be Stored in Your Shirt Cuff
If you love gadgets so much that you imagine a future where even your wardrobe is connected, but you’re irritated by current offerings that still include chunky electronics, don’t give up hope just yet.