Lisa Jackson is heading up Apple’s roadmap to zero climate by 2030
Reporting the most profitable quarter for any corporation ever, Apple has plotted a roadmap to achieving climate neutrality by 2030. Lisa Jackson is the driving force behind that mission. Growing up in 70s New Orleans, a US hotspot for petrochemical facilities, Lisa Jackson witnessed first-hand the adverse effects of pollution...
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Chinese face-tracking tech bans foreigners from live streaming
A global inquest into TikTok has done little to deter China from pushing stricter censorship on its own soil. Official documents from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance have confirmed rumours that the viral video app is constantly running facial recognition technology to monitor and censor content on Douyin – China’s version...
Zuckerberg loses $7 billion as advertisers abandon Facebook ads
Advertisers are pressuring Facebook to be more rigorous with its approach to hate speech and misinformation as they abandon the platform with the hashtag #StopHateForProfit. Does anyone remember when Facebook wasn’t a hot bed of dodgy memes and uninformed political opinions? Zuckerberg is once again in hot water with advertisers over...
NASA set to return to Mars with new rover ‘Perseverance’
Having bid farewell to the Mars rover in 2019, NASA is revisiting the Red Planet in 2021 with its most sophisticated vehicle to date, ‘Perseverance’. America’s chief space agency is set to embark on a new adventure to Mount Sharp, a huge summit on Mars, and the expedition will be...
All the new iOS 14 features that will shake up Apple’s UX
Apple’s iOS 14 will be bringing new widget possibilities to the home screen and can even be used to unlock your car. Because keys are old school. Some things in life are guaranteed – death, taxes, and fresh iPhone products. Apple showcased its latest iteration of iOS for the first...
AR lenses to cure the visually impaired?
These days most of us wake up to the sight of a smartphone screen, so why not cut out the middle man completely? Thanks to the likes of Elon Musk and Drew Perkins, I can scarcely remember a time where nutty human tech projects weren’t ‘close’ to commercialisation. Nowadays, stories...
Robot baristas help customers social distance in South Korea
South Korea is showing the rest of the world how to social distance in style. The lengths people go to for coffee... You know that awkward moment when you’re approached by a needy waiter at a local café and have to reassure them that your order is ‘delicious’ through a mouthful of carrot cake? Well, that’s no longer an issue at a nifty joint in Daejeon, South Korea. As the nation loosens its...
The app on a mission to change shopping for good
A new artificial intelligence-powered app called The Yes is set to drastically change the way consumers shop by building a virtual store around the individual needs of each user. Yesterday, after a year of teasing the launch of their new startup, e-commerce veteran Julie Bornstein and her technical co-founder, Amit Aggarwal, finally launched The Yes, an exciting new shopping platform they’ve been quietly building for 18...
SoundCloud and Twitch change the game for aspiring artists
You didn’t think SoundCloud was going to be underground forever, did you? SoundCloud is one of the worst kept secrets in the music industry in recent years, having propelled indie creators like Lil Peep, 21 Savage, XXXTentacion, and Post Malone from bedroom rappers to global stars seemingly overnight. And the music sharing platform is ready to permeate the mainstream on a whole other level with its latest coup. Yesterday, SoundCloud announced...
Music live streaming surges amidst the pandemic
With nowhere to perform in real life, more artists than ever are taking to live streaming to get their music out to fans. Well, we’re nearly in mid-May, and everyone is still hunkered up at home due to the coronavirus outbreak. What many hoped would be a few weeks of inconvenience has turned into a long-term change in daily life, affecting all manners of industries and practices – including...
