Jun 22
Jun 22
Twitter is allegedly gearing up to launch a long-form blogging feature on its websites that will allow users to expand on its 280-character limit.
Jun 22
UK health officials are planning to more widely offer smallpox vaccines—which are effective against the related monkeypox virus—to some gay and bisexual men. The expanded outreach is part of a renewed strategy to contain the emerging viral disease, which recently has spread far beyond the few areas of the world where…
Jun 22
Vape ‘em while you still got ‘em. A new report says that the Food and Drug Administration is planning to cut off Juul from the U.S. market, a move that would likely doom the e-cig manufacturer and leave a huge hole in the alternate-nicotine industry just as federal regulators are planning to nerf traditional…
Jun 22
Ikea's New VR Design Tool Can Erase All Your Ugly Furniture Before You Try Theirs
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There’s no worse way to spend a weekend afternoon than tromping through a maze-like Ikea store, which is why the augmented reality features in the company’s mobile app that let you try before you buy are so useful, and now even more useful, as the app can now automatically erase your room’s existing furniture without…
Jun 22
The latest Polestar update brought Apple CarPlay and added a feature that made the vehicle’s infotainment system ready for a strange new future.
Jun 22
The latest Polestar update brought Apple CarPlay and added a feature that made the vehicle’s infotainment system ready for a strange new future.
Jun 22
Apple Absent From Metaverse Standards Group That Includes Meta, Microsoft, and Others
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Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Sony, and other tech giants have formed a group designed to ensure interoperability in the metaverse. Notably absent from this list of heavyweights is Apple, a company heavily rumored to be working on its own mixed reality products.
Jun 22
If you’re concerned that the usual web search engines might be biased, don’t worry — Brave thinks it can help. The company has introduced a beta Goggles feature for Brave Search (itself no longer a beta) that lets anyone set their own criteria for search rankings. You can refine a “politics” query to shift the focus to blogs instead of major news outlets, for instance.
You can create, modify or use others’ rankings just by running a search and tapping the “Goggles” button. You won’t necessarily have to spend time fine-tuning your results, then. A community could also share Goggles to more consistently surface the sites it uses most often.
Brave is pitching the tool as a foil to the algorithms Google and Microsoft’s Bing use to prioritize some search results while downplaying others. Those more dominant search providers say they’re focusing on trustworthy sources of information and otherwise helping users find useful content, but Brave contends that Goggles can help counter biases inherent to its larger competitors’ technology.
The feature may have both positives and pitfalls as a result. While this could help you more easily find smaller sites or differing opinions that frequently get buried in conventional search results, it might also reinforce thought bubbles where you only see content that agrees with your existing views. As with the rest of the internet, you may have to use Goggles judiciously to avoid creating an echo chamber.
Jun 22
Bats could be up there with elephants as animals that never forget. A new study found that wild bats were able to remember a specific ringtone four years after learning to associate it with food.
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