Facial recognition ad tech flunks the creepiness test, but someone will make it work
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...
What Spotify’s live audio app Greenroom is really like…
Spotify joined the live audio game last week with Greenroom.
It’s done via a reskinned Locker Room app that Spotify bought in March for an estimated $50 million USD.
It now joins Twitter...
Google forcing security on people is the right choice, even if it seems like...
Last week, only noticed by the kinds of people that read the company’s Keyword blog posts for fun, Google revealed something pretty incredible.
Since last year, the company has been automatically...
Spatial Audio: The best (and worse) remixed tracks
After reporting the announcement regarding Spatial Audio last week I figured it was time to check out what Apple calls “the next generation of sound”.
As a music lover I’ve spent countless...
Apple’s future vision of wireless charging convenience sounds awful (not awfully convenient)
Remember AirPower? Announced alongside the iPhone 8 and iPhone X in 2017 as a wireless charging pad to fill up all your Apple devices at once, it missed its 2018 release...
We spent a day looking for Covid and Vaccine disinformation on Facebook: Here’s what...
Like most of us who believe in science rather than crackpot conspiracy theories, I'd unfollowed the few Facebook friends who - out of the blue - started posting anti-vaccination rants.
But here...
Samsung to throw everything at the wall with Galaxy Unpacked, but will anything stick?
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...
Smart glasses won’t be ubiquitous until they carry an Apple logo
So, Facebook is the latest company to try and make smart glasses a thing that people would voluntarily pay money for and then put on their face. In public.
Perhaps aware of its...
The Samsung Galaxy S21 FE is still coming, but is late really better than...
Samsung’s will-it, won’t-it drama with the Galaxy S21 FE has swung back once again to ‘will’. Over the weekend, two bits of fairly conclusive evidence popped up to back up the...
Is Twitch streaming a dream career? Not for me
I should start this off with a disclaimer: I don’t routinely watch Twitch, in the same way that I don’t spend that much time on YouTube. I was born at the...