Daily Archives: March 9, 2020

In the age of coronavirus, we all have to resist the urge to touch our faces. It’s how the virus can travel from doorknobs or other objects to your mucus membranes and get you sick. Luckily, a startup called Slightly Robot had already developed a wristband to stop another type of harmful touching — trichotillomania, […]

Immutouch wristband buzzes to stop you touching your face

This entry was posted in Apps Gadgets hardware Health Mobile Startups TC Wearables on March 9, 2020 by Josh Constine

Vecnos wants to make 360-degree content mainstream, starting with its first compact and wand-like camera.

Exclusive: Ricoh’s 360 Camera Division Spins Out to Form Vecnos

This entry was posted in Gear on March 9, 2020 by Julian Chokkattu

A small consolation in the growing COVID-19 crisis is that some of our moderate germophobia has begun to feel like a minor super power. As I got settled for a cross-country flight last week, I took out my hand wipes and did a whole number on the screen, tray table and arm rests, and this […]

Wait, you all haven’t been wiping down your smartphones this ...

This entry was posted in hardware Health Mobile and tagged apple iphone on March 9, 2020 by Brian Heater

The tradition of sitting through a barrage of ads in exchange for being entertained began with radio, flourished with the arrival of television and followed the mass migration online. As the massive $35 billion in advertising revenue captured by YouTube and Instagram in the last quarter indicated, online advertising around social media, influencers and streamers […]

TV advertising didn’t die, it just moved online

This entry was posted in Advertising Tech e-commerce Media Pandora Social TC YouTube and tagged facebook instagram on March 9, 2020 by Jonathan Shieber

Facebook’s latest colonization of Instagram has begun. Facebook is testing the option to cross-post Stories to Instagram, instead of just vice-versa. Hopefully, that means the two apps will finally sync up the ‘already viewed’ status of cross-posted Stories so we don’t have to watch re-runs any more, as I harped about in January. If fully […]

Facebook Stories tests cross-posting to its pet, Instagram

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC and tagged facebook instagram on March 9, 2020 by Josh Constine

Facebook Stories tests cross-posting to its pet, Instagram

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC and tagged facebook instagram on March 9, 2020 by Josh Constine

According to a report from 9to5mac, Apple could be working on full cursor support for the next major version of iOS and iPadOS. The report is based on code of an early version of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. If Apple ships that new feature, it means that you’ll be able to use a Bluetooth […]

Apple could add mouse cursor support to the iPad

This entry was posted in Gadgets iPad Mobile and tagged apple on March 9, 2020 by Romain Dillet

Meditation and mindfulness apps are booming. The top 10 apps pulled in $195 million in 2019, up 52% from the year before. Now, top meditation app Headspace’s former head of research, Nick Begley, is launching a new app that goes beyond mindfulness to specifically address the needs of those suffering from anxiety. The app, called […]

Calmer You fills in the gaps in meditation apps for ...

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Startups on March 9, 2020 by Sarah Perez

Google VP Vint Cerf has voiced support for a single set of standards for Internet platforms to apply around political advertising. Speaking to the UK parliament’s Democracy and Digital Technologies Committee today, the long time Googler — who has been chief Internet evangelist at the tech giant since 2005 — was asked about the targeting […]

Google’s Vint Cerf voices support for common criteria for political ...

This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Social United Kingdom and tagged facebook google social media on March 9, 2020 by Natasha Lomas

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