Amazon Clinic is a new message-based virtual healthcare service that offers accessible treatments for a variety of common health concerns. | Image: Amazon Amazon has launched Amazon Clinic, a message-based online healthcare service that offers treatments for over 20 “common health conditions” such as allergies, dandruff, hair loss, birth control, erectile dysfunction, and acne. Amazon…
Monthly Archives: November 2022
The Garmin Bounce is the company’s first LTE watch for kids. | Image: Garmin Garmin already has a ton of colorful fitness trackers for kids, but today, it’s launching the $149.99 Bounce — its first LTE smartwatch for kids. The device is meant to help parents keep an eye on their kids without having to…
Aqara’s new automatic pet feeder works with smart home automations and voice commands. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Smart home company Aqara is bringing some connected fun to your pets. The new $99.99 Aqara Smart Pet Feeder C1 can feed your cat or dog on a schedule, remotely using its app,…
Enlarge (credit: Dmitry Marchenko/Getty Images) Washington, DC, is the home base of the most powerful government on earth. It’s also home to 690,000 people—and 29 obscure algorithms that shape their lives. City agencies use automation to screen housing applicants, predict criminal recidivism, identify food assistance fraud, determine if a high schooler is likely to drop…
All electric, everywhere, all of the time; that’s one of the many climate mantras. Induction stovetops take a lot of power, however — they can pull 40 amps at 240 volts. That’s the same as an at-home Level 2 EV charger. Needless to say, a lot of older houses aren’t wired to plug in a…
Germany’s antitrust watchdog has moved to widen an existing investigation of Amazon’s business in the market in light of special abuse powers it confirmed are applicable to the ecommerce giant’s business in the country this summer. The Federal Cartel Office (FCO) said yesterday it is extending two ongoing “abuse control proceedings” against Amazon to include…
WhatsApp is finally going to let users send messages to themselves. WABetaInfo noticed the new feature in the latest version of WhatsApp for iOS (version 2.22.23.74), which is available to all Apple users. The feature, however, appears to be rolling out slowly as it’s not currently showing up for everyone (I, for example, don’t see…
If horror movie history has taught us anything, it’s that there’s nobody more equipped to take on a budding alien invasion than a plucky group of teens. Set in the Inuit village of Canada’s Baffin Island (it’s the first feature ever to be filmed in the hamlet of Pangnirtung, Nunavut), Shudder‘s Slash/Back sees four Indigenous…
This content originally appeared on Mashable for a US audience and has been adapted for the UK audience. Here we are again. It’s that time of year when the act of finding the perfect gift is not only a drain on your wallet, but on your mental capacity as well. Thinking up gift ideas —…
We’re used to details of upcoming phones leaking, but lately Google’s handsets seem to be getting leaked in detail long before launch, with the Pixel Fold being the latest example. We’ve heard a number of Google Pixel Fold rumors over the last few months, but now high-quality renders have emerged that purport to show the…