- Sensors on Google’s experimental StreetView cars in Oakland are capable of producing street-by-street air-quality data.
- Apple’s just-announced HomePod looks like it’s positioned to compete with Sonos and other WiFi speaker makers, as well as with every other company (Amazon, Google) that makes a voice-controlled home assistant. How Siri matures is going to be a large part of its success (or failure).
- Renewable energy is now capable of powering half of Western Europe.
- Upcoming changes to Chrome and Safari will substantially change your experience of the web, combatting videos that play automatically and blocking “egregious ads”. Let’s make this happen yesterday.
- Police in Wales have used facial recognition technology to make an arrest for the first time. While that’s an important tech story, so is this: facial recognition technology has been used on about 1/2 of American adults (about 117 million of us).
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