Step 1: Open Spotify on your smartphone. Step 2: Search for your book in the audiobook section. Step 3: Tap "Scan to listen" and allow camera access with the pop-up. Step 4: Take a photo of the ...

Spin-out Merge Labs aims to rival Elon Musk’s brain-chip company Neuralink. But researchers say the technology is still at an early stage.

Mobile Fortify app being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlash Immigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new ...

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...

The Metropolitan Police is facing legal action brought by a youth worker and the director of a civil liberties campaign group It will be “impossible” for Londoners to travel without being scanned by ...

There will come a point when we’ve gone too far with health tracking. One could argue we have already arrived, but sometimes we really need to overindulge to rein ourselves in. Case in point: we can ...

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Image of the Withings Body Scan 2 on a table. (Daniel Cooper for Engadget) Back in 2023, Withings launched Body Scan, a super-premium scale with the sort of tech found in a high-end gym or low-end ...

Withings is doing more than ever with its latest smart scale, the Body Scan 2. AT CES, the brand is calling it a "longevity station" with more than 60 biomarkers and Apple Health integration. French ...

As this interstellar object approached its closest point to Earth, a massive radio telescope attempted to sniff out a technosignature. Reading time 3 minutes From the moment astronomers discovered ...

This video covers two breakthroughs that push “mind reading” from fiction into early reality: UT Austin decoding language from brain activity, and Meta decoding visual perception from brain waves. At ...