Photo: Garmin If you compare all of the ~$100 fitness trackers currently available, you’ll find a lot of similarities when it comes to their hardware, design, and functionality. So to make its new vívosmart 4 stand out, Garmin has instead tried to innovate on the software side by using all of the data the wearable…

President Trump at the White House on August 29, 2018Photo: Getty President Trump has made new allegations in a series of tweets this morning that are sure to get his supporters riled up. Trump has seemingly accused NBC News of manipulating an interview that Lester Holt conducted on May 11, 2017, shortly after Trump fired…

Photo: HTC But if you’re just looking at the U12 Life’s design, HTC seems to have strayed into some funky design ideas that has left the U12 Life looking like the confused loffspring of an iPhone X and a Pixel 2 XL. In front, there are no notches or fingerprint sensors in sight, while in…

Screenshot: Snapchat Anti-semitic vandalism has turned New York City into “Jewtropolis” on a number of online platforms, including Snapchat, CitiBike, and StreetEasy. The problem appears to stem from the mapping software that the platforms are using, called Mapbox, which pulls data from OpenStreetMap. A tweet by Snapchat Support explained that, “Snap Map relies on third…

Image: Google In July, Google claimed its 85,000 employees had gone a full year without encountering any security mishaps following a mandatory requirement of using physical security keys for two-factor authentication. Now, its in-house security key is available for sale in the Google store. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is the bare minimum anyone should be doing…

Researchers have 3D-printed a sensing array onto a hemispheric glass dome. Image: University of Minnesota, McAlpine Group For the first time ever, scientists have 3D-printed an array of light sensors onto an eyeball-shaped surface. Eventually, a scaled-up version of the device could restore vision to the blind, or even improve the vision of sighted people.…