Shreyas Sen is the Founder and CTO of Quasistatics, Inc. (dba Ixana), which develops Wi-R, a wireless body-area communication technology. He owns shares in the company. How do headphones, toys, ...

AI in daily life quietly powers devices we interact with every day, from smartphones and home appliances to navigation apps and wearables. Edge computing and tiny neural networks embedded in device ...

If you regularly deliver the same presentation, you may need to make small adjustments for different audiences or time constraints–for example, by omitting some slides. In PowerPoint, you can save ...

If Alexa’s in your home, you might’ve been one of many users this month who were suddenly moved from the original Alexa to the new AI-powered Alexa+ voice assistant. Amazon announced in early January ...

Chapel Hill’s Town Council has been working on ways to streamline the town’s development process and attract more builders and developers interested in low- and middle-income housing projects. TOWN OF ...

A model quantifies the environmental footprint of wearable health-care electronics and identifies strategies to reduce their environmental toll. Although such environmental issues have been studied ...

It's easy to find yourself with more sources for your TV than it has inputs. Most TVs just have three or four HDMI connections, so if you have a PlayStation, Xbox and cable/satellite box, what happens ...

Cuffless devices to measure blood pressure, such as smartwatches, rings, patches and fingertip monitors, show great promise as alternatives to traditional arm-cuff monitors, however, they are not yet ...

Apple’s “intelligent” AirPods switching can get annoying. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you’re trying to listen to podcasts or music on your iPhone, it can be annoying when your AirPods keep ...

We regularly interact with people across race and class lines, but those conversations sometimes go wrong. Lower-status people fear facing discrimination; higher-status people fear being accused of ...

K-12 education technology spending reached $30 billion in 2024, and it’s projected to nearly double by 2033. That’s a lot of money schools are investing and a huge amount of waste going into landfills ...