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Monthly Archives: July 2022
Elon Musk on March 9. Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Synchron implanted its first device into a US patient on July 6 in New York. The chip is designed to allow patients with severe paralysis to communicate using their thoughts. Elon Musk’s Neuralink has a similar mission, but has yet to receive…
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies on Capitol Hill on May 11, 2022. Alex Wong/Getty Images Anthony Fauci, who’s led the US response to COVID-19, said that it’s ‘more and more difficult’ to get Americans to listen. “Even the people who are compliant want this [pandemic] behind them,” Fauci told Politico. Fauci said ‘simple’ steps like getting vaccinated…
Time spent with mobile increased by an average of 31 minutes per US adult in 2020, reaching 4 hours and 16 minutes. This year, the time US adults spend on mobile devices will continue to grow, albeit at a slower rate than last year. Do you work in the Marketing, Media & Advertising industry? Get…
Investigators raised alarm bells when they learned Homeland Security bureaus were buying phone location data to effectively bypass the Fourth Amendment requirement for a search warrant, and now it’s clearer just how extensive those purchases were. TechCrunchnotes the American Civil Liberties Union has obtained records linking Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and…
Crunchyroll is changing prices for users in nearly 100 countries and territories, but not in the way you’d probably expect. Instead of increasing the cost of monthly subscription plans, Crunchyroll is lowering them to offer users “even more value.” The move could help the anime-focused streaming service attract more subscribers too. In the UK, the…
The James Webb Space Telescope may well be mankind’s greatest feat (so far). This is a magnificent space telescope that was originally initially designed and planned back in the late 1990s but wasn’t completed and launched until the end of 2021. Now sitting at 930,000 miles beyond Earth’s orbit, the massive telescope is gathering data…
It’s refreshing when an unlikely game lights the world up with a trailer and suddenly finds itself the centre of huge interest – and that’s what Stray achieved when it was unveiled alongside the PS5 in mid-2020. The sheer novelty that you play as a cat may account for some of that, but its visual…
Verizon’s early 5G UW experiment through mmW technology may have been tough to experience, but with the purchase of a whole bunch of C-Band spectrum and the ramp-up in rollout of it, they’ll soon have 5G you’ll notice. As a continuation of that rollout, which initially kicked off in January, Verizon announced this week that…
The long-awaited co-op flight test for Halo Infinite finally launched last Friday, several days later than expected, and brought glimpses at various features spotted by fans delving deep into the game’s files. This includes upcoming maps and weapons, as well as details of Infinite’s Forge mode (thanks, LeaksInfinite/HaloDotAPI). Also, a mysterious object called the quantum…