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In 2014, Verily, Alphabet's life sciences subsidiary, teamed up with Alcon to develop a contact lens that could measure glucose levels in tears. The idea being that diabetics would have an easier, less invasive way of keeping track of their glucose l… Source: Engadget | Verily shelves its glucose-monitoring contact lens project
November 16, 2018 | by RaheelMicrosoft has released a new app that aims to demonstrate how its Windows Machine Learning APIs can be used to build apps and "make machine learning fun and approachable." Emoji8 is a UWP app that uses machine learning to determine how well you can i… Source: Engadget | Microsoft’s new experimental app is all about …
November 16, 2018 | by RaheelGoogle Spotlight Stories has released its latest short, Age of Sail. Directed by Academy Award winner John Kahrs (Disney's Paperman short), it blends beautiful animation with the story of an old, lonely sailor, played by Ian McShane, who is adrift in… Source: Engadget | Google releases gorgeous VR short film 'Age of Sail'
November 16, 2018 | by RaheelThe trend of blundering into the void of adopting new tech, damn the consequences, full speed ahead, continues this week. The Telegraph tells us about "a number of UK legal and financial firms" are in talks with a chip company to implant their employ… Source: Engadget | More companies are chipping their workers like pets
November 16, 2018 | by RaheelThree senators have proposed new legislation aimed at deterring robocall scams. The Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Protection, or TRACED, Act would give the FCC broader authority to penalize those that violate telemarketing restrictions, give the… Source: Engadget | Senate bill takes aim at illegal robocalls
November 16, 2018 | by RaheelIn August, San Francisco's Municipal Transportation Agency awarded two companies, Scoot and Skip, permits to operate their scooters in the city. The scooter pilot program has now been running for a month and Scoot says it has learned a few things dur… Source: Engadget | Scoot will add locks to its scooters to combat theft …
November 16, 2018 | by RaheelMulti-SIM phones are all fine and dandy, but they have their limits: you rarely get more than two lines, and they may be overkill if you just want a new set of digits rather than a wholly separate connection. Verizon (Engadget's parent company) thin… Source: Engadget | Verizon app puts four extra numbers on one …
November 16, 2018 | by RaheelMicrosoft is no doubt pouring much of its energy into the next-gen Xbox, but it might give the current generation one last hurrah. Thurrott sources understand that it's planning new Xbox One configurations in 2019, including one without a disc drive… Source: Engadget | Microsoft may release a disc-free Xbox One in 2019
November 16, 2018 | by RaheelResearchers at the Georgia Tech and Korea University believe they have found a way to power implantable medical devices like pacemakers with a new fuel cell made from cotton fiber. The glucose-powered biofuel cell could provide twice as much power as… Source: Engadget | Researchers want to power pacemakers with cotton-based biofuel cell
November 16, 2018 | by RaheelAttention is the main prize of the internet. Everyone is fighting for it, and the phone is the prime battleground. The most potent of weapons in this war is the incessant, whining notification trying to pull your attention away from whatever you are… Source: Engadget | Death by push notification
November 16, 2018 | by Raheel