The SwitchBot Blind Tilt can tilt your blinds automatically. | Image: SwitchBot SwitchBot, the smart home company that takes robotics to places no one imagined, has come up with another ingenious gadget. The new $69 SwitchBot Blind Tilt launches today on Kickstarter, with orders expected to ship before Christmas. And, yes, it looks as ugly…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Enlarge (credit: Suebsiri Srithanyarat / EyeEm / Getty Images) A ransomware attack on the Los Angeles Unified School District in the first week of September crippled digital operations across the system, which includes more than 1,000 schools and serves roughly 600,000 students. Two weeks after the initial attack, as the district worked to recover and…
Ebola prevention signage at a local health center on October 10, 2022 in Madudu, Uganda. Luke Dray / Stringer / Getty One month after the Ebola virus was first detected in Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern over the spread of the deadly virus. Uganda has reported 60 confirmed…
As we prepare for the third annual Sight Tech Global (December 7-8, free & virtual, register here), a technology event that tracks the advances in technology supporting people who live with blindness, two big shifts are front and center. First, new digital experiences, notably virtual reality, are testing known approaches to accessibility. There are no…
Over the last 10 years startups in Africa’s off-grid solar sector have attracted over $2.3 billion funding. However, the largest share of the financing has gone to just seven pay-as-you-go (PayGo) Africa-based scaleups, leaving hundreds others in the early-stage struggling to fundraise, according to the biennial Gogla-World Bank report. The seven most funded solar startups…
Black Adam castmates Aldis Hodge, Sarah Shahi, Noah Centineo, Quintessa Swindell and Mohammed Amer make Dwayne Johnson read a hilarious version of the Black Adam logline. Black Adam is now playing in theaters. Read More
I love a theme party and any excuse to get way too into something relatively meaningless. I fully commit. So when a family member suggested we have a watch party for the new Halloween movie, I happily undertook creating a scary-good menu. On the dinner list: salad dressed with blood-red vinaigrette, steak and orange habanero…
Just a few days after Netflix proved its staying power in the face of recent subscriber woes, the streaming service leads this week’s roundup of new movies and TV shows with three distinct picks. New fantasy adventure The School for Good and Evil is joined by the Joel Edgerton-starring The Stranger and Zoe Saldaña-led series…
A new Microsoft study has found the majority of workers are “stuck in pre-pandemic office spaces” rendering them almost impossible to collaborate in properly. The company’s research found 83% of British workers were working in the same environment as they were before the pandemic, with employers resisting change despite adopting some hybrid working policies. The…
You’ve probably heard of the eco-conscious audio manufacturer House of Marley – yes, created in collaboration with Bob Marley’s actual family. If not, the company’s Rebel and Liberate Air earbuds are a good place to start. And although the Liberate Air didn’t exactly gain a glowing review from this publication, the audio specialist has just…