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This week, I covered the story of Casey Harrell—a man with ALS who is “the first power user” of a brain implant, according to the researchers who worked with him. Harrell is paralyzed and unable to speak coherently without the device. He has now spent almost three years using a brain-computer interface (BCI) that enables…
Fintech lenders should verify loan documents before underwriting starts. The first pass checks the...
Fintech lenders should verify loan documents before underwriting starts. The first pass checks the...
The $50 GB Operator is an accessory that lets you connect, play, and authenticate Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges on PCs and other devices. Now it's getting some new functionality for the Game Boy Camera. After turning the Game Boy Camera into a charmingly awful desktop webcam two years ago, […]
A new system service will roll out this month ahead of big changes starting in September.
On today’s Uncanny Valley, we dive into the dysfunction in Meta’s newly formed AI unit and why it’s been driving already-low employee morale even further into the ground.
The easiest way to save on a streaming service is often to pay for a year upfront, which HBO Max is currently making a lot cheaper. Through July 15, 2026, new and returning subscribers can get 28 percent off any of HBO Max’s yearly plans, bringing the ad-supported tier down to $78.99 ($31 off) per […]
Snap's new smart glasses are probably the most impressive bit of face-computer technology we've seen. They're not VR-headset huge; they don't have a big charging puck; thanks to Snap's many years of AR lens development, they're likely to have a lot of features right out of the box. (Yes, they're $2,195, but that may just […]
During a recent expo in Shanghai that focuses on elderly care, assistive devices, and rehabilitation medicine, a Chinese company called Yueban debuted a smart toilet that does something we haven't seen before; it comes to you. The autonomous self-driving Xiaoban toilet was designed to improve accessibility for those dealing with mobility issues due to age, […]
For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a "residential proxy" provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR].
I launched Firefox this morning to find some new blocks on my home page. The widgets that are currently rolling out add sports scores, time zones, a focus timer, and a checklist, which are already some of my favorite new Firefox features in years. I usually have Focus Friend open on my phone when I […]
The software engineers filed a complaint with Seattle’s civil rights office accusing Amazon of illegally retaliating against them for expressing their personal political beliefs.
When three Amazon software engineers testified earlier this month at Seattle City Council hearings about data centers, they started their testimony by citing a city law barring employment discrimination over political speech. Now, they're accusing their employer of breaking that law by retaliating against them. On June 10th - one week after the hearing, and […]
The rich are getting richer. Here’s what wealth advisers are telling their tech clients right now.
Running out of color options for events in Google Calendar shouldn't be an issue going forward. The previous limit of 11 predefined colors has now been expanded to give users access to up to 200 custom colors for individual events across the native Calendar web and mobile apps, and the Calendar API. This started rolling […]
One messy database is threatening to disenfranchise thousands or even millions of registered voters, while leaving even more at risk of intimidation or data breaches, in the name of solving a problem that barely exists. As the 2026 midterm elections approach, election and privacy experts are sounding alarms about the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic […]
Amazon Prime Day 2026 lifts off on June 23rd and will hopefully deliver the best deals of the summer. We’ve been covering the most notable pre-Prime Day discounts happening, and come next week, we’ll be bringing you many more deals — ones we can’t tell you about just yet. As usual, expect to see price […]
If you’ve been wanting to buy a robot vacuum but have been put off by how much it can cost to get a good one, now is not a bad time to start looking. Prime Day is next week, but many retailers are offering early deals on several models we’ve tested from brands like Roborock, […]
Anime collaborations are everywhere, from Gundam watches and Naruto nights at Major League ballparks to just about anything Evangelion. But these Ghost in the Shell keyboards from Iqunix are some of the coolest examples I've seen of anime-inspired everyday tech. They look sick and they type and play great. At $249 they're a hefty upcharge […]
How we built a medicine-substitution engine that refuses to be clever There is a category of bugs where the code looks perfectly correct in code review, the unit tests pass, the demo on stage goes beautifully, and a real person dies. Medicine substitution is one of them. We built Agada — point a phone camera at a medicine strip in India, and the app tells you whether the drug is registered with the regulator, what it does, and whether a chemically identical version is available at the government pharmacy for a fraction of the price. The point is real: Indians spend about ₹65,000 crore a year out of pocket on branded medicines when the same molecule sits in a Jan Aushadhi Kendra at a tenth of the cost. The Dolo-650 story (₹32 vs ₹4.90 for the same paracetamol) is the most famous example, not the only one. The hard part isn't the camera, the OCR, or the price lookup. The hard part is the substitution engine — the piece of code that decides "is this salt the same as that salt." Get that wrong in the wrong direction, and the app cheerfully tells a user that their 500mg anti-epileptic can be replaced with a 200mg one, because the strings look similar. So we built a matcher that refuses to be clever. This post is about the parts we deleted. The starting problem A user scans "Crocin 500mg Tablet IP". A Jan Aushadhi record says "Paracetamol 500 mg". A naive matcher says: both contain "500", both contain "Paracetamol" (or "Acetaminophen", which is the same thing in a different country), ship it. The user buys the generic. Savings: ₹20. Everyone wins. Now consider: Crocin 650 Advance vs Dolo 650 — same molecule, same dose, different brands. Fine. Augmentin 625 vs Augmentin 375 — same two salts, different ratio. The combo tolerance might let it through, but the clinical implication is real. Levofloxacin 500 vs Ofloxacin 400 — both fluoroquinolones, both "similar," but levofloxacin is the levo-isomer of ofloxacin and is dosed at roughly half. A "fuzzy" match here could halve so