Category: Tech Industry
CES 2019: This cotton vest wants to predict your next heart attack before it’s too late
When a heart attack strikes, it can seemingly come out of nowhere. And if you have chronic heart failure, being able to predict the next attack not only can be life-saving but empowering too. Chronolife, a health tech company based…
Visa Announces Acquisition Of TrialPay To Expand Its Offers Platform
Visa announced today that it’s planning to acquire Mountain View-based TrialPay, an e-commerce payment platform which sits in between payments and advertising, providing consumers with an alternative way to pay for items by agreeing to take advantage of another merchant’s offer.…
Smart smartwatch deals for Mother’s Day: Discounts on Apple Watch, Fitbit and more
Tick tock, time is running out on your chance to line up a Mother’s Day gift. If you plan to skip the flowers this year and go the tech route, splurging on the latest Apple Watch for dear ol’…
iVictrola: Taking the iPod Back to the Old School
The iVictrola is a very cool piece of hardware made by NYC designer Matt Richmond who has conjured up an amalgamation of the iPod dock with a 20th century metal Magnavox horn.
NASA head: Expect a major asteroid strike in your lifetime
This week, as scientists work through an exercise simulating an imminent asteroid impact with Earth, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine warned that we need to take the real-world threat seriously. Bridenstine acknowledged ‘the giggle factor,’ the dismissive response…
GDPR has cut ad trackers in Europe but helped Google, study suggests
An analysis of the impact of Europe’s new data protection framework, GDPR, on the adtech industry suggests the regulation has reduced the numbers of ad trackers that websites are hooking into EU visitors. But it also implies that Google may have…
Oldest known drawing, from 73,000 years ago, looks like a hashtag
And you thought the Mona Lisa was old. Researchers say they’ve found the earliest known drawing on a stone fragment in South Africa. The simple cross-hatched pattern dates back 73,000 years to the Middle Stone Age, which makes it…
Angry people might not be as smart as they think, study finds
The next time you blow your top during an argument trying to convince someone you’re right, here’s something that could make you even madder: You might not be as smart as you think. At least that’s the finding of new…
The Apple Watch ECG detected something strange about my heart rhythm
When I first started testing out the new EKG feature on the Apple Watch Series 4 — available Thursday via the free Watch OS 5.1.2 software upgrade — the last thing I expected was to find something abnormal with my…