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Living independently as an older person carries risks. One in four Americans aged 65 and older falls each year, according to the , and every 19 minutes an older adult dies from a fall. Health ailments like urinary tract infections (UTI) become increasingly common in old age, too, accounting for about 8.1 million physician visits each […]

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Obituaries circulated for soon after Apple , and justifiably so. Originally promised for 2018, the wireless charging mat certainly wasn’t the first Apple product to miss its expected release date, but as a general statement, Apple explains and reschedules troubled products rather than making them disappear and going silent. Scrubbing the site of all AirPower […]

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Obituaries circulated for soon after Apple , and justifiably so. Originally promised for 2018, the wireless charging mat certainly wasn’t the first Apple product to miss its expected release date, but as a general statement, Apple explains and reschedules troubled products rather than making them disappear and going silent. Scrubbing the site of all AirPower […]

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Home appliances waste more energy than you might think. Incandescent light bulbs consume 20 percent to 80 percent more electricity than energy-efficient alternatives, like compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs). A single dishwasher, meanwhile, can draw over 1,800 watts per cycle. That’s why Hasty Granbery, former director of software engineering at PayPal, in 2015 founded , […]

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Though its was focused on enterprises rather than consumers, top South Korean wireless carrier SK Telecom used New Year’s Day as an opportunity to demonstrate how 5G will influence both markets in 2019. Starting at midnight on January 1, the carrier offered a live 11-minute broadcast of the country’s largest New Year’s celebration in Seoul, […]

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WASHINGTON (By David Shepardson, Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google unit won approval from U.S. regulators to deploy a radar-based motion sensing device known as The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in an order late on Monday that it would grant Google a waiver to operate the Soli sensors at higher power levels than currently allowed. The […]

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A that keeps tabs on your furry friend’s fitness was all the rage last year, as were , , and other tech-centric pet accessories. But leave it to Volta, a Milan designer of connected home appliances and industrial apps, to reinvigorate the category with a pet bowl — Mookkie — it says is driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Mookkie, […]

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A that keeps tabs on your furry friend’s fitness was all the rage last year, as were , , and other tech-centric pet accessories. But leave it to Volta, a Milan designer of connected home appliances and industrial apps, to reinvigorate the category with a pet bowl — Mookkie — it says is driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Mookkie, […]

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A that keeps tabs on your furry friend’s fitness was all the rage last year, as were , , and other tech-centric pet accessories. But leave it to Volta, a Milan designer of connected home appliances and industrial apps, to reinvigorate the category with a pet bowl — Mookkie — it says is driven by artificial intelligence (AI). Mookkie, […]

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TechCrunchTechCrunchOriginal Content podcast: ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’ is a frustrating interactive experimentThe end of China’s ride-sharing gigGo-Jek extends ride-hailing service to the rest of SingaporeFCC will suspend most operations on Thursday if the shutdown continuesIn 2018 the ticketing industry finally killed the ‘sold out’ showThis clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its […]

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