Amazon pushes palm-paying tech into more Whole Foods stores
After initially saying it had “no plans” for the palm-reading payment tech in Whole Foods stores, Amazon’s getting ready to go all in. On Tuesday, the ecommerce giant announced it would be expanding Amazon One, its proprietary palm-recognition payment system, to 65 Whole Foods stores in California. As reported in Supermarket News, customers will able […]
Meet the robot learning to assemble IKEA furniture
Ambidex is a two-armed robot created by Naver Labs and it’s learning how to assemble an IKEA chair. A haptic feedback device controlled by a human acts as a medium between the robot and the human, teaching the robot how to perform tasks similar to how we do. Naver Labs hopes to expand the haptic […]
YouTube is more popular than TikTok among teens
While the days of Nyan Cat and Salad Fingers are over, teens still love YouTube. According to a new survey from the Pew Research Center, YouTube is the most popular social media platform among teens ages 13 to 17. They found that 95 percent of teens surveyed use YouTube, and 19 percent of those teens […]
Google changed Gmail's design and some people are furious. Here's how to change it back.
Google recently did the unthinkable: It changed the way Gmail looks…again. It’s one of the great cardinal sins of the tech world — to make unexpected, unsolicited, and potentially unwanted changes to something so familiar, and indeed so essential to our daily existence. What is life if not an endless stream of unwanted emails, gradually […]
Grab a 14-inch Asus Chromebook for only $215
Save $64.31: For students who need a budget-friendly laptop, there’s the 14-inch Asus Chromebook CX1 (4GB RAM, 64GB eMMC) that’s now $215.68 at Amazon. As of Aug. 10, this is 23% off the regular price and close to its lowest price ever. Just because we refer to them as cheap laptops doesn’t mean they’re flimsy. […]
Kick off football season with a 77-inch LG 4K TV for $700 off
SAVE $700: As of August 10, the LG 77-inch G1 OLED 4K TV is on sale for $2,599 at Walmart. That’s 21% in savings, just in time for football season. Football season is coming in hot in less than a month. The best way to gear up for game day is by investing in a […]
The Sony LinkBuds S excel when it comes to ambient sound, and they're over $50 off
SAVE $51.99: As of Aug. 10, the Sony LinkBuds S are $51.99 off at Amazon, bringing their price down to just $148. Finally, a pair of Sony headphones that doesn’t have a nonsensical name like the M82CHZZZZZ-4560, or something. (Is that a real model? I literally pressed random keys on my laptop to come up […]
The best VPNs for securely watching sport online
Sport dominates the lives of millions of people around the world, and fortunately most of it is available to watch on one platform or another. That is unless you are abroad. If you are travelling, you might find yourself blocked by your favourite streaming platforms. If you want to keep up to speed with all […]
Spotify is now selling concert tickets. Interesting timing.
Spotify is expanding into yet another facet of music business: concert ticket sales. The audio streaming company silently launched a new website, tickets.spotify.com, where users can purchase tickets for live music events. The website currently only shows a handful of events for artists including Limbeck, Annie DiRusso, Crows, Osees, and TOKiMONSTA. Spotify told TechCrunch it’s […]
'Sisyphus' is a robotic art installation that never ends
Created by London and Hong Kong-based artist Kachi Chan, Sisyphus is a robotic art installation representing the clash between oppression and resistance. The piece features a group of smaller, more agile bots constructing brick arches while a larger one swoops in and knocks them down.