Your gadgets are likely made in Chinese forced labor camps

These locations are in the supply chain of at least 83 companies many of them technology behemoths. The majority of these people are Uyghurs, an ethnic minority in China that has undergonehorrendous treatment. This effectively includes ideological training, constant surveillance, and religious oppression. 40% off TNW Conference! One of them was the transfer of 1,200 Uyghurs to an O-Film factory in 2017. This company manufactured the front-facing cameras for the iPhone 8 and iPhone X....

March 3, 2020 · 2 min · 370 words · Mr. Michael Williams PhD

How to repair a toxic work culture with ‘psychological safety’

Check out the full Impact program here. Nir Eyal, who authored this piece, is one of the speakers. Check out the full Impact program here. After conducting interviews with BCGs staff, Perlowfoundthat this reputation was coming at a major cost. Employees were leaving the elite consulting firm, in part because they lacked control over theirschedules. Perlow ran the idea by George Martin, the managing partner of BCGs Boston office. He told her to keep her hands off his team....

March 2, 2020 · 2 min · 374 words · Amy Dean DDS

The AirPods Pro have weaselled their way into my everyday life

Ive always hada love/hate relationshipwith AirPods. Well, friends, gather round; theres something I have to tell you. Okay, let me take a deep breath. Im now undeniably a terrible person, and its all down to the AirPods Pro. Yeah, they looked like an improvement over theprevious generation, but also seemedan exercise in branding and marketing. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Theyre honestly one of the first things I grab if Im going out of the house....

March 2, 2020 · 2 min · 385 words · Dr. Kevin Martin

These psychological tips will stop you from checking your email all the damn time

Theres just one problem I cant put my technology down. I ritually check email when I wake up in the morning. If Im out to lunch, Ill sneak a peek on my way to the restroom. I even look at my email when stopped at a red light. Most troubling, I catch myself emailing instead of being fully present with the people I love most. I didnt have a good answer....

March 1, 2020 · 3 min · 601 words · Spencer Reese

How designers and developers can collaborate better

Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full Sprint program here. Despite the tongue-in-cheek title of the series, Designer vs. A utopian vision of teamwork was revealed. Its the opposite for developers. Theyre seen as geeks, theyre nerds, theyre super serious people that are wired a certain way. But its just nonsense. And yes, the debate about whether designers should code has run its course by now, too....

February 29, 2020 · 2 min · 387 words · Katherine Strickland

The 6 levels of autonomous driving, explained as fast as possible

Autonomous driving isnt quite as clear cut as it sounds. Despite many vehicles claiming to have self-driving capabilities, they arent all the same. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Its important to know these levels to correctly distinguish one supposedly autonomous vehicle from the next. Lets waste no more time, here are the six levels of automation. Level 0 These vehicles have no automation features at all. These are most likely older or more basic cars....

February 27, 2020 · 2 min · 369 words · Martin Sanchez

What fictional alien encounters can teach us about our own reality

The prospect of contacting sentient aliens is a staple of science fiction. Still, speculating about how contact with an alien race might go is something we tend to enjoy. Here are some fictional first contact scenarios and some thoughts on whether they are, at all, plausible. The massive invasion Independence Day I cant believe this movie was made in 1996. Or rather, I cant believe how long its been since 1996....

February 27, 2020 · 2 min · 329 words · Sean Garrett

Deep learning advances are boosting computer vision — but there’s still clear limits

In recent years, computer vision has taken great leaps thanks to advances indeep learningand artificial neural networks. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Theyre particularly efficient at classifying images and localizing objects in images. Recent work done in the fieldshows the limits of computer vision algorithms and the need for new evaluation methods. Nonetheless, the current applications of computer vision show how much can be accomplished with pattern matching alone....

February 26, 2020 · 4 min · 769 words · James Thomas

Porn sites are designed to keep us hooked — and take all our hard data

Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full Sprint program here. Im looking at porn with a woman I met on the internet. Bodies grind and groan in their windows, holding positions with dexterous ease. Kelley is a UX and AI product design director who I connected with via email. Sites like Pornhub obviously want to monitor our engagement by providing one dopamine hit after another....

February 26, 2020 · 3 min · 464 words · Sharon Adams

Byte Me #12: Lost IUDs, Jess Bezos, and a hidden vagenda

(@thysuggestion)February 20, 2020 @byte_mestraight out ripped me off. My teeth dont look any better and when they sent replacement aligners they didnt even fit in my mouth. Dont believe anything they say. Its a scam and they will steal from you. Now onto the news! Like yeah I suddenly turned into a woman. Must be a tumor it something. Oh well, I guess its what nature intended. For this months thats what she said, were discussing how we should remember problematic people....

February 24, 2020 · 2 min · 380 words · James Gonzalez

Everything you need to know about Honor’s just-launched 9X Pro

Dont say we dont treat you, folks. This little fella is 16MP, enough to really make your face, uh,popduring selfie time. This equipment has a 2340 x 1080 resolution LCD screen, with a 91% screen-to-body ratio. God, I love a phone without a notch. And what about the processor and memory? Storage-wise, it comes with 256GB and has an expandable slot that can deal with another 512GB. On top of this, the Honor 9X Pro also has 6GB RAM more than enough for most people....

February 24, 2020 · 2 min · 346 words · Jacqueline Newton

Human emotions must adapt to thrive in the machine age

But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything what a waste! These lines could not be more timely. Emotions, however, remain a human bastion. Our very weakness is our strength. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. In a 2016survey, the World Economic Forum ranked socio-emotional skills as increasingly critical for future career success. They are better felt than explained, better portrayed often through works of arts than analyzed....

February 22, 2020 · 2 min · 373 words · Adam Dougherty

What developers can teach us about responsive design

Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full Sprint program here. Since the dawn of web design, we have measured our websites in pixels. A somewhat absolute measurement that describes the smallest visual unit of a screens resolution. Ive developed a rather love-hate relationship with these little gremlins, certainly from an engineering point of view. On the one hand, the pixel is a ubiquitous measurement that is easy to visualize....

February 22, 2020 · 2 min · 405 words · Patrick Jackson