Designed to monitor your health, the system comes complete with nearly a dozen sensors that can do everything from perform an on-site specimen exam (it checks your poop and urine for things like consistency, color, and glucose and red blood cell count) to time your movements. And it even has built-in cameras and a fingerprint sensor for security purposes. We were going to take an in-depth dive into the myriad medical conditions this potentially life-saving and much-needed device could be used to diagnose....

It’s 2022, and there are plenty of NFT projects launching every day. But it’s hard to know which ones will remain popular past their drops. A lot of them launch pictures for proof (PFP) NFTs — think of them as image NFTs — with no utility attached to them. And there’s no clear plan for holders as to what value these might bring them, beyond trading. It might be easy for project leaders to team up with an artist and drop some NFTs, but they’d need more technical prowess to create their own token and set up a governance mechanism....

A startup called ZzappMalaria hopes to shrink these numbers by targetting the mosquitoes that transmit the infection. The company’s tech focuses on larviciding, a method of treating the water bodies in which the insects breed. In conventional operations, fieldworkers can easily miss some of the vast quantities of water they need to larvicide. ZzappMalaria’s mobile app uses AI to make their work easier. [Read: How Polestar is using blockchain to increase transparency] The system uses a neural network to extract locations of houses from satellite images, pinpointing where the affected populations live....

You’ve got to hand it to Adobe. Through innovation and acquisition, the tech titan has pulled together a creative app version of The Avengers, a collection of programs that can not only handle virtually any digital creative project but have also been adopted by over 90 percent of all working creative pros and downloaded over 376 million times. Yeah, the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of apps just rolls forward. And with usage like that, it’s a fairly glaring hole in your professional skill set to not have a complete command of its most high-profile apps....

The World EV Day is upon us — YAY — thanks to the folks at Green.TV, a media company that focuses on clean teach and sustainability stories. What better way to celebrate this day than with a dive to the past! Electric vehicles are all about shaping our future, but let’s take a moment here to appreciate the historic CitiCar, which was years ahead of its time. Let me take you back to May 30, 1974, when the new electric CitiCar was demonstrated in the streets of Sebring, Florida....

According to a report by Bloomberg, the Match Group-owned app is rolling this virtual currency initially in Australia, and later in other countries, including the US. The in-app “coins” could be earned by keeping your profile active. Plus, you could buy them with real money, and use them to redeem premium features, such as Super Likes and Boost, which could give chances for better matches. Tinder’s agenda is simple, make people spend more time on the app, and give them a reward for that....

We’re excited to announce that we’ll soon be expanding our TNW spaces with our third location, situated in the Westas, one of Amsterdam’s greenest neighborhoods. TNW West will allow us to almost double the size of our community in Amsterdam, connecting and supporting more fast-growing tech companies and talent. In partnership with MRP Development, one of the largest property developers in the Netherlands, we’ll be operating an additional 6,000m2 of tech space at the new location, bringing the total footprint of our spaces in Amsterdam to 15,000m2....

Tech5 is the leading showcase for Europe’s fastest-growing scale-ups, giving them the opportunity to join a network of the best companies, investors, and experts from across the continent. This year we’re focusing on the ways technology can help create change and have a positive impact on society. A community for the founders who dare In 2020, Tech5 2020 is going to be an even greater podium, with the likes of Lithuania competing for the first time....

You’ve asked for it — nay, demanded it — since the day the website launched and now you’re getting it. Well, sort of. yes, we’ve been working on an edit feature since last year! no, we didn’t get the idea from a poll 😉 we’re kicking off testing within @TwitterBlue Labs in the coming months to learn what works, what doesn’t, and what’s possible. — Twitter Comms (@TwitterComms) April 5, 2022 That’s right tweet fans, you’ll need a paid monthly subscription to Twitter Blue in order to experience the joy that is… editing your own tweets....

“Uber’s US Safety Report includes information about Uber’s actions on safety, as well as data on the most serious safety incidents reported on our ridesharing platform in 2017 and 2018,” the document outlined. “This includes traffic fatalities, fatal physical assaults, and sexual assault.” Back in 2017, Uber said that 2,936 passengers reported incidents of sexual assault while using the taxiing service. In the last year, Uber reported that it facilitated 1....

The UK’s first public e-cargo bike-sharing scheme is being launched in east London this month to help residents and businesses move goods using low-carbon transport. Eight new electrically assisted cargo bikes, each capable of carrying up to 80kg, will be available to rent from four docking stations across the borough of Hackney. The scheme is funded by the Mayor of London and the tri-borough Zero Emissions Network, which helps residents and businesses in Tower Hamlets, Islington and Hackney save money, reduce emissions and improve local air quality....

The technology was developed by UN officials alongside a startup called Remesh, which produces a tool that creates online conversations with up to 1,000 participants. Their thoughts are analyzed in real-time through polls and open-ended questions to provide insights at scale. The product is typically used for market research and employee engagement. But the UN believes it could also improve public participation in peace negotiations. Using the AI conversation tool in warzones The UN’s system aims to create a “real-time” dialogue between people living in warzones about what they want from a peace deal....

But what if I told you that CNNs are fundamentally flawed? That was what Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of deep learning, talked about in his keynote speech at the AAAI conference, one of the main yearly AI conferences. Hinton, who attended the conference with Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, with whom he constitutes the Turin Award–winning “godfathers of deep learning” trio, spoke about the limits of CNNs as well as capsule networks, his masterplan for the next breakthrough in AI....

Watch tennis legends like Venus & Serena Williams compete in Mario Tennis Aces for a $1M charity donation! pic.twitter.com/8tVZD4W3cB — Facebook Gaming #playaparttogether (@FacebookGaming) April 29, 2020 The tourney is called the Stay At Home Slam, and it’ll star a motley crew of tennis pros, like the aforementioned Sharapova, Venus and Serena Williams, and Naomi Osaka, alongside some non-pro familiar faces like Gigi Hadid, Steve Aoki, Seal, and Karlie Kloss....

The new update, dubbed Vivaldi 4.0, is the company’s attempt to lure you away from Google’s services. With all the discussions and scrutiny the Big G’s third-party cookie replacement tool FLoC, it’s probably the right time to get that user growth. Vivaldi said that the translation is powered by LingvaNex and all the core data is hosted in Iceland. The company’s tool offers almost all languages supported by Google translate, and works across desktop and Android app to automatically translate web pages with just a click Vivaldi is also getting three new layouts in its browser interface: Essential, Classic, and Fully Loaded....

Vvolt’s launch this year was a refreshing change of pace. While it goes without saying that you should take longevity promises from any new company with some caution, the company differentiated itself by the simple fact that it didn’t launch via crowdfunding — and that each of its four launch models comes with a three-year warranty. It also sources some components from Acer — yes, that Acer — but Vvolt is focused first and foremost on providing a good cycling experience rather than flashy technology....

In a meeting with more than 100 company managers in Berlin this week, VW CEO Herbert Diess said that the company will have to “slaughter some sacred cows” and transform into a tech company if it’s to survive, the FT reports. In other words, VW is going to have to retire beloved vehicles in favor of greener alternatives. It seems that VW is growing increasingly aware of how companies like Tesla are shaking down the motor industry....

Comics are one of the hottest storytelling mediums around. But, even if you’ve got a story idea that’s burning to get told on the printed page, just figuring out the right tools to translate that story into reality aren’t always easy. Clip Studio is a digital art environment with the power of Photoshop, yet a boatload of specialized features tailored for painters, line artists and other physical media craftsmen, especially comics and manga creators....

According to British car marketplace Carwow, you should head to the romance capitals of Northern Europe, Norway and the Netherlands, obviously. [Read: Tesla nosedives in Norwegian consumer satisfaction rankings — but drivers still loyal] In conducting its research, Carwow created (what sounds like the first) EV Holiday Index score to rank countries in Europe based on how well they support EV drivers and who has the best tourist hotspots....

The other week I looked at how this had changed on iPhones, but I’m currently intrigued about other phone manufacturers. Specifically, I wanted to learn about the screen-to-body ratio of Google Pixel phones over time. Before we go on though, a definition. The screen-to-body ratio is simply a number that shows what percentage of a phone’s front is screen compared to, well, not screen. The bigger the number, the bigger the relative screen size....