A Tile is a small Bluetooth device which you can put on your keychain, for example, so that you can find your keys using an app on your phone. Each Tile’s battery life expectancy is one year and after that year you’re expected to trade it in at a discount for a new one. Right…

It wasn’t user error this time. Wait. Was it? …read more Source:: CNet

Barack Obama said this month that AI research is accelerating, making it harder to find jobs for everybody, and concluding “we’re going to have to consider new ways of thinking about these problems, like a universal income.” But a Financial Times columnist adds that “an intriguing debate has broken out over how to look after…

You always hear that people talk about the weather. But it seems to us we see more clocks than we do weather stations. A case in point is [frank_scholl’s] clock made from an old hard drive. We found it interesting that the clock has no microcontroller at all. The custom PCB is all digital and…

“Facebook executives said on Wednesday its profit margins would plummet for several years due to the cost of improving privacy safeguards and slowing usage in its top advertising markets,” reports Reuters, adding that the news “wiped over $120 billion off the company’s share price.” One millennial options trader lost $180,000 overnight. And meanwhile CNBC reports…

The scientific community cannot always agree on how much water a person needs in a day, and since we are not Fremen, we should give it more thought than we do. For many people, remembering to take a sip now and then is all we need and the H2gO is built to remind [Angeliki Beyko]…

An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Amazon topped $2 billion in quarterly profit for the first time in its history, an impressive run fueled by continued growth in Prime subscriptions, cloud computing and its nascent advertising business. Amazon said Thursday that it earned $2.5 billion in profit for the three months ending in June, a staggering…

It seems to be a perennial among humans, the tendency among some to expect the End Times. Whether it was mediaeval Europeans who prepared for a Biblical Armageddon at the first sight of an astronomical phenomenon, 19th-century religious sects busy expecting a Noah’s flood, cold-war survivalists with bunkers under the lawn, or modern-day preppers buying…

Slate asks why more businesses are refusing cash — and investigates the downside. An anonymous reader quotes their report: Stores are eliminating cash registers and coin rolls in pursuit of what they say is a safer, more streamlined payment process — and one that most of their customers want to use anyway. At Dos Toros,…

Here’s this week’s iPhone news. …read more Source:: CNet