Category: 8. Tech

Your phone is essentially a portable petri dish. Think about everywhere you take it-the gym, the kitchen, and yes, the bathroom-and then consider that it spends half its life pressed against your face. Research suggests your screen is likely…

In recent years, AI has learned to write text, generate images, create videos and even produce working computer code. As those capabilities became mainstream, attention shifted to a deeper question within AI research: Can machines learn how the…

What are men escaping (for a week or, at most, for 10 days) when they go on a retreat in places where no one knows them? Places where no one is aware if they are CEOs, freelancers or rich heirs; if they’re family men, uncompromising bachelors…

What you need to know

• Google is offering a limited-time 50% discount on Google One annual plans, including storage-only and AI Pro tiers.
• The 100GB and 2TB storage plans are now cheaper, but they do not include access to Google’s full AI feature…

Close to half of vulnerable customers find the insurance application process challenging, with 10.9% of consumers with a disability or long-term health condition having previously been denied insurance.

This is according to…

CES is still a couple of weeks away, and yet the announcements continue to arrive early. This time it’s Hisense, which has made a big announcement ahead of the Las Vegas-based technology convention, and it’s great news for projector fans.

The…

It’s one of humanity’s scariest what-ifs – that the technology we develop to make our lives better develops a will of its own.

Early reactions to a September preprint describing AI behavior have already speculated that the technology is…

In the third season of the hit TV show The White Lotus, the protagonists arrive at an exclusive resort where guests are asked to turn off and turn over their phones; that is, to engage in a digital ‘detox’. For many of us, cutting ourselves…

In the third season of the hit TV show The White Lotus, the protagonists arrive at an exclusive resort where guests are asked to turn off and turn over their phones; that is, to engage in a digital ‘detox’. For many of us, cutting ourselves…