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What’s Wrong With Your Venmo Account, and How to Fix It
Few social-media experiences have made me cringe more than viewing my “friend” list on the peer-to-peer payment app Venmo for the first time. Seeing...
Never Ever (Ever) Download Android Apps Outside of Google Play
This week, researchers revealed that a strain of malware hit at least 1.3 million Android phones, stealing user data as part of a scheme...
Finally, An Online Course For Aspiring Flying Car Engineers
N THE PAST year, flying cars have gone from LOL, to maybe a real thing, to a booming industry raking in VC cash and churning out sweet renderings of an...
Try to Dissect Apple’s New AirPods and You’ll Shed Blood
APPLE’S SLEEK AIRPODS represent the company’s vision of a hands-free, wireless future. Sure, the sound is only fair to middling, but Apple made them...
In booming retail warehouses, robots steadily replace some workers
When Skechers started building a colossal distribution center in Moreno Valley six years ago, backers promised a wave of new jobs.
Instead, by the time...
Robots could replace 1.7 million American truckers in the next decade
Trucking paid for Scott Spindola to take a road trip down the coast of Spain, climb halfway up Machu Picchu, and sample a Costa...
Robots Wielding Water Knives Are the Future of Farming
JUST AFTER DAWN in the Salinas Valley south of San Francisco, a raucous robot rolls through a field spitting clouds of vapor. It’s cutting...
The Apple-Google Contact Tracing Plan Won’t Stop Covid Alone
Putting the privacy of these smartphone apps aside, few Americans have been tested—and there's a risk of false positives.
Hands wearing sterile gloves checking a...
Will Robots Replace Fast-Food Workers?
The robots in movies and science fiction books that rise up to take over the world generally are able to do so because we...
Mexico taking U.S. factory jobs? Blame robots instead
Problem is, factories don’t need as many people as they used to because machines now do so much of the work
