The Tech Wardrobe

Google IO 2021, Everything That Was Announced: Android, AI, Privacy, Wear, Project Starline : Of course, Google isn’t the only company that wants to manage your passwords for you. We have a list of excellent options in our password manager guide—including some advice about why in-browser options like Google’s are more limited. New Tools …

Google’s Project Starline Videoconference Tech Wants to Turn You Into a Hologram : Bavor’s latter observation is somewhat subjective and a sample of one. The former is a phenomenon that’s actually being studied, now that office workers have spent the past 14 months taking meetings through screens. We are more distracted during video …

Google Taps Samsung to Co-Develop Wear OS, Fitbit to Debut New Smartwatches : Another big reason Google lags behind the smartwatch competition is its lackluster health and fitness portfolio. In recent years, Apple has added electrocardiogram (ECG) and blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) measurements into its watches, and rumors suggest blood glucose monitoring will …

Android 12 Will Let You Fine-Tune Permissions on Data-Hungry Apps : After a few years of expanding privacy and security tools, the Android team is in refinement mode. Then again, when an operating system runs on more than three billion devices, little changes can have a big impact. And a slew …

AT&T Is Spinning Off WarnerMedia to Focus on Telecoms Again : AT&T announced Monday it will spin off WarnerMedia—including HBO and Warner Bros.—into a new company, less than three years after AT&T bought Time Warner for $108 billion. Ars Technica This story originally appeared on Ars Technica, a trusted source for …

Hurricane ‘Price Tags’ Could Reveal the Cost of Global Warming : Climate researchers say the idea of putting a “climate price tag” on an individual storm might help the public understand how global warming affects them directly. That’s especially true in places like North Carolina, which continues to see a boom …

The Case for Using MDMA to Help Heal Victims of Trauma : To begin her treatment, I gave Sophie two capsules of MDMA, then helped her slip on eyeshades and headphones to encourage her to confront whatever images, associations, or emotions the medicine brought forth. Since the drug’s effects can be disorienting …

Luxury Fashion Brands Turn to Gaming to Attract New Buyers : “The pandemic accelerated the mainstream visibility of these subcultures that are having a huge impact,” says Benoit Pagotto, one of three cofounders of RTFKT Studios, purveyors of virtual sneakers and NFT collectibles. Its recent virtual sneaker collaboration with Fewocious raised …

Online Dating Apps Are Actually Kind of a Disaster : When it came to talking about the harmful effects of social media on kids, I used to feel like the Will Smith character in I, Robot: “Why won’t anyone listen to me?” After I wrote a book about girls and social …

To Observe the Muon Is to Experience Hints of Immortality : The known universe seemed, briefly, muonstruck. But it took only 12 days for another Italian physicist to throw cold water on the bliss. Carlo Rovelli, a founder of loop quantum gravity theory, which seeks to combine quantum mechanics and general …