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• The world's first genderless voice assistant is challenging gender stereotypes

  Most voice assistants are by default, female. Q, the world’s first genderless voice, hopes to eradicate gender bias in ...

  • Cara Curtis

• A fringe benefit of wearables is finding out if your loved ones aren't dead

  I’m in a London branch of the Apple Store, about to buy a pair of Apple watches. And not for any of the standout apps or ...

  • Erica Buist

• Here's how to be the master of your digital domain

  A few months ago I was offered (and have since accepted) a full time offer to work at Facebook in San Francisco and ...

  • Nikhil Thota

• Reddit operates exactly as it was designed -- and that’s a problem

  After carefully selecting a semi-automatic weapon from the trunk of his car, one of at least three, a 28-year-old gunman calmly walked to the front door of the Masjid Al Noor mosque. He shot a man standing in the doorway before entering the mosque and opening fire on fleeing Muslims. ...

  • Bryan Clark

• What can psychopaths teach us about AI?

  What happens when machines learn to manipulate us by faking our emotions? Judging by the rate at which researchers are developing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• We reviewed this $35K Sony projector with old internet videos

  Ever wondered what a $35,000 projector is like? And how it'd handle old internet videos? We answered the two questions no ...

  • Callum Booth

• Space is being branded as a luxury product for the ultra-rich

  What does it mean to be nostalgic for outer space? Outer space supposedly summons images of the future and the beyond, hence its blatantly colonial fantasy nickname — the final frontier. Yet proposed travel to outer space these days is a backward-looking endeavor. The angel ...

  • Lou Cornum

• Pssst, looking for the most discounted Apple products on Amazon?

  On the hunt for the best deals on Apple products? Look no further! Using internet magic, we've rounded up the best of the ...

  • Callum Booth

• Lessons in Herstory uses AR to rectify women’s place in history books

  Lessons in Herstory, is bringing life to the forgotten stories about women’s triumph in American history by retelling it. ...

  • Cara Curtis

• Why is Google adding Nintendo controller support to Chrome?

  All clues point to Google adding Joy-Con support to Chrome -- so what could this mean for that Project Stream gaming service ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• IBM's latest trick: Turning noisy quantum bits into machine learning magic

  IBM researchers built a pair of algorithms that lay the foundation for the future of machine learning with quantum advantage. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Apps are stealing your attention — here's how to break up with your phone

  On average, people spend almost six hours on their phone everyday. But it's not all their fault, phones and apps are designed ...

  • Cara Curtis