The new Amazon fashion shopping lenses allow Snapchat users to try on eyewear and then buy products via an on-screen link. | Image: Snap Snap and Amazon Fashion are partnering up to provide Snapchat users with the ability to try on branded glasses and sunglasses using augmented reality filters. Snapchat’s 363 million daily active users…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
An image of early pregnancies from five weeks (bottom left) to eight weeks (top right). The tissue has been rinsed of blood and the menstrual lining has been removed, leaving only the gestational sac. | MYA Network/Dr. Joan Fleischman, MD, MPA Most people don’t know what early pregnancy actually looks like. That complicates abortion discussions….
Security issues have long dogged the U.S. trademark system. Unscrupulous operators – sometimes competitors, sometimes bad actors with nothing better to do – too frequently muck up the application process by modifying those filings or filing improper submissions. This is no small problem given the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (the USPTO) remains a mammoth…
As ButcherBox’s former head of logistics, Juan Meisel knows how to get perishable items from A to Z, and now he wants to do the same for Grip, a perishable shipping company he is bringing out of stealth mode with $2 million pre-seed funding. Dubbed a “smart logistics engine,” Grip’s technology sits on top of…
New computing paradigms are never not going to be weird, but such uncomfortability dramatically intensifies when the human body enters into the picture. There’s a sense in which the smart contact lens feels like something of an inevitability (whether it’s produced by Mojo Vision or someone is another question altogether), but that doesn’t mean each…
TLC famously once sang “don’t go chasing waterfalls,” but what if we want to in our sex lives? Yes, we’re talking about squirting — the most debated aspect of orgasms for people with vaginas. According to research, around 10 percent to 54 percent of us can do it — and yet, there is a whole…
Remember that odd exchange Elon Musk had with Stephen King a couple of days ago, where Twitter’s new owner was basically trying to haggle for the price of a blue check mark? Well, it looks like round two may have kicked off. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk has LOTS of monetization plans for Twitter The whole…
At this point, the general public should know that local elections matter. We all understand that state elections are crucial. But what does a governor actually do? How do state measures work, and what exactly is an attorney general? As midterm elections approach on Nov. 8, the push for greater voter turnout is actually highlighting…
Nvidia’s RTX 4090 has been overclocked to a rather staggering 3.7GHz and as you might expect, when ramped up that far, the GPU claimed some new world records. VideoCardz picked up on this one, reporting that overclocking outfit Team OGS took the Galax RTX 4090 HOF – the graphics card we wrote about yesterday that…
After launching a beta in 2021, Google has announced a further rollout of the Play Games app for Windows 11, which lets you download and play a bunch of Android games on your tablet or PC. While you can download Android apps through the Microsoft Store in Windows 11 thanks to Amazon, this is another…