2025-06-23 20:51:47
For Tom’s Guide, Jason England reviews smart glasses by Emteq, which are equipped with sensors to track micro facial movements and then pipe the data into AI.
Sporting sensors all around the rims, it can detect the subtlest of changes in your facial expressions (even those you aren’t consciously aware of doing). With this data, paired with AI, it can become a personalized life coach for your fitness, your diet and even your emotional health.
This will not end well.
While there is value in learning about yourself through data, the quantification of your life, in a quest to optimize every bit, is no way to live.
Tags: Emteq, glasses, Tom's Guide
2025-06-20 18:01:19
For the Pudding, Alvin Chang uses the CANDOR corpus to explore our feelings when we do the unthinkable: talk to strangers.
The story follows a sample of 30-minute conversations between strangers with transitions between anecdotes and patterns. Each square represents an individual as ASCII art, a timer on the right doubles as a progress marker, and in typical Chang style, he keeps you connected to what the data means on a personal level.
Tags: Alvin Chang, conversation, Pudding, strangers
2025-06-20 02:53:40
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2025-06-20 00:59:06
With temperatures rising, we must prepare for how everyday life could change, other than days getting hotter. For the Washington Post, Daniel Wolfe highlights research by Mohamed Foudad from the University of Reading on how flight turbulence might increase with just a 2°C bump.
While at the University of Toulouse, Foudad led a study where he combined 11 climate models to predict where more extreme and dangerous forms of clear-air turbulence would increase. He said, “by using all these climate models … we have now a high confidence at each degree of warming that we have an increase in this turbulence.” The map above simulates the impact of a 2 degree Celsius (3.6 degree Fahrenheit) increase from preindustrial temperatures which, according to some estimates, could fall before 2055.
An interactive map lets you enter two airports to see possible changes in turbulence over a flight path.
Tags: climate change, flights, turbulence, Washington Post
2025-06-18 20:30:03
People tend to marry or partner with those closer to their age. However, some venture outside the typical range.
2025-06-17 23:08:15
The bill proposed by the current administration affects incomes of the poor and the rich in an unusual way. To demonstrate, for NYT’s the Upshot, Emily Badger, Alicia Parlapiano, and Margot Sanger-Katz compare the bill against previous bills.
The bill as passed by the House in May would raise after-tax incomes for the highest-earning 10 percent of American households on average by 2.3 percent a year over the next decade, while lowering incomes for the poorest tenth by 3.9 percent, according to new estimates by the Congressional Budget Office.
The shape of that distribution is rare: Tax cut packages have seldom left the poor significantly worse off. And bills that cut the safety net usually haven’t also included benefits for the rich. By inverting those precedents, congressional Republicans have created a bill unlike anything Washington has produced since deficit fears began to loom large in the 1990s.
Tags: bill, government, taxes, Upshot
