For our first posting of 2017, consider a new fitness tracking device in the form of a finger ring. . It will officially debut at this year's Consumer Electronics Show and is priced at $199 (USD).
The Ring contains some technological innovations, including optical heart rate tracking and impressive miniaturization.Â
One of the predicted consequences of the was the fading importance of place. After all, if everyone can talk to and look in on everyone else regardless of location, through the miracle of telephones and TV and Internet, then location would become irrelevant.
We do not yet live in that world. Many people continue to commute to work, for example, to be in the same building with their colleagues.
died December 8, aged 95. Glenn had been the last surviving member of the , the first group of astronauts as selected by NASA.
Will Oremus at Slate has written an interesting piece on  The term recently came to prominence over the propagation of fraudulent news items as a tool of persuasion in the recent US election.
Three recent New York Times articles illustrate some issues facing information providers like Facebook when it comes to dealing with potentially harmful content being shared through its service.
Have you heard of "hyperloop"? According to , it's a "a new mode of passenger and freight transportation that propels a pod-like vehicle through a near-vacuum tube." Imagine a subway but over longer distances between major cities, and much faster, comparable to airplanes and beyond, I suppose, .
Today brings another pair of interesting news items to compare. The first concerns an automated vehicle that delivers hot food. The second concerns an automated vehicle that delivers hot lead. (Some lines just write themselves!)
My news feed put up an interesting pair of articles about applications of AI to what might be called knowledge discovery.
The first was an article by Adrienne Lafrance about . The is an astronomical computer made in Hellenistic Greek times and found in a shipwreck off the island of Antikythera in 1901.
Emma Tucker at Dezeen writes about a new feature of . The Angel is a high-end electric bike clearly meant to appeal to an exclusive market, at the exclusive price of €9,760 each.
When you hear the term alcohol patch, what do you think of? An imaginary place more adult than the ? Wrong! A patch that slowly releases alcohol into your bloodstream? Getting warmer!
As Mike Hanlon describes it in New Atlas, the is a sensor that rests on a person's skin and monitors their blood alcohol level: