While the Home Office says face scanning is designed to be an “additional” tool for border officers and won’t “replace or overrule human judgment,” it did not answer questions about how it plans to use the technology in real-world environments. “In cases of uncertainty,” the spokesperson says, “individuals will always be treated as children until…
It’s been called RAMageddon: AI’s insatiable demand for hardware has caused a worldwide shortage of memory chips. Now outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook is warning its customers that your next Mac, iPhone, or iPad could be more expensive thanks to surging memory and storage chips costs. In a recent interview, Cook told the WSJ that…
Security researchers have uncovered a network of 152 Google Chrome extensions posing as live wallpaper and new-tab customization tools that secretly collected user information and generated fake web traffic to make money through advertising. The extensions, which featured popular themes ranging from anime characters and football stars to sports cars and video games, were spread…
The Moon is slowly making its way back into view after this month’s New Moon. It’s still faint, but a slim crescent is starting to take shape and will become easier to spot over the next several evenings. What is today’s Moon phase? As of Thursday, June 18, the Moon phase is Waxing Crescent. Tonight,…
The Trump administration’s move to impose export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful AI technology followed a spat over the company granting South Korean telecom giant SK Telecom access to its Claude Mythos model, according to people familiar with the matter. US officials were concerned about what they alleged were SK Telecom’s ties to China, those…
It happened to me: I opened a Google Doc to write an article, and I was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “write with Gemini.” I looked for some button to swipe away the garish AI display, but I could not find it. It made me mad. Now, instead of writing the…
Neat wants meeting rooms to do more than host video calls. At InfoComm 2026, the company announced new hardware, AI-powered framing features, BYOD-friendly room capabilities, and Neat Pulse MCP, a Model Context Protocol implementation that enables AI agents to act on device, room, sensor, user, and location data in real time. For IT teams, the…
We’re still three months or more away from the unveiling of the iPhone 18, and outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook likely won’t be the one to introduce it (given that John Ternus takes over in September). But Cook has taken an extraordinary step — and arguably, taken one for Ternus — by warning consumers that…
The streaming industry has gotten a lot of flak over the past few years, but there is one thing that Hollywood studios are undeniably good at: recycling the same idea, over and over and over again until the world ends (or until everyone finally decides they’re sick of Harry Potter, whichever comes first). This tried-and-true…
Chi-Hua Chien has spent more than two decades as a venture capitalist, but he thinks like a cultural anthropologist. As a co-founder of Goodwater Capital, a firm focused exclusively on consumer and prosumer technology, he has built a portfolio spanning entertainment, healthcare, fintech, and live experiences — with investments in companies like MIDI Health, Fever,…
