Facial recognition ad tech flunks the creepiness test, but someone will make it work

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Billboards are a pretty inefficient way of advertising to people, if you think about it.  You plaster pictures of your product on a big poster by the side of the road and...

Ron’s Gone Wrong can’t decide whether big tech is a problem or solution

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This is going to be a slightly different column than usual, as it focuses entirely on one movie — and a kid’s one at that. That’s not because I’ve run out...

Is Facebook even worse than we imagined?

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Even those of us who follow the travails of Facebook closely were rocked earlier this month by the revelations uncovered by ex-Facebook employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen. Her testimony, and the internal...
Spatial audio now available on Android – but does anyone care?

Spatial Audio now available on Android… but does anyone care?

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Android users that subscribe to Apple Music (rare breeds) can now experience spatial audio too.  The format - powered by Dolby Atmos - was touted as “the next generation of sound” when...

I’m starting to hate true wireless earbuds

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AirPod owners aside, I have a question for you: does anybody really, actually like true wireless earbuds?  For those confused by the terminology, “true wireless” refers to those earphones without any kind...

Can tech turn transport into a subscriber service?

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Car sharing might solve our addiction to owning our own vehicles suggests Stuart Matthews.

Samsung to throw everything at the wall with Galaxy Unpacked, but will anything stick?

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What are you doing in three weeks’ time? Samsung hopes that on Wednesday 11 August you’ll be tuned in to the company’s live stream for the next Galaxy Unpacked event.  Actually, given...

AR-gh: Why nobody should welcome back AR glasses

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It wouldn’t be Christmas without tedious reruns, would it? And this week, it seems the rerun in question is “wouldn’t it be great if we all looked like cyborgs with transparent...

Companies: stop trying to normalise mid-game snacking, please

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This week, I became aware of a product that 200,000 years of human evolution has led us to. The answer to a greasy gamepad isn’t wet wipes, soap or a mirror...

Here’s why “Live Text” is Apple’s best feature from WWDC 2021

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Up until now Apple hasn’t been quite as adept at dealing with text in images as Google or Samsung. I open my Google Photos app when I want to find, say,...