Enlarge / Facebook is developing a wrist-worn wearable that senses nerve activity that controls your hands and fingers. The design could enable new types of human-computer interactions. (credit: Facebook) It first appeared on March 9 as a tweet on Andrew Bosworth’s timeline, the tiny corner of the Internet that offers a rare glimpse into the […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | buzbuzzer) Altice is slashing its cable-Internet upload speeds by up to 86 percent starting on July 12. Altice Optimum Online plans that currently have advertised upload speeds of 35Mbps will be reduced to uploads of either 5Mbps, 10Mbps, or 20Mbps, depending on the plan. Altice did not announce any immediate […]
Left: Chrome’s new “Follow” button. Right: The RSS feed, which looks just like Google discover. (credit: Google) Despite killing Google Reader in 2013, Google keeps flirting with the idea of helping users discover news. The algorithm-powered “Google Discover” and Google News feeds send heaps of traffic to websites based on users’ search histories, but what if […]