People who have been hospitalised with Covid may be left with difficulties in thinking comparable in magnitude to ageing 20 years, research suggests. As the pandemic swept the world it became apparent that coronavirus could not only cause immediate health problems but also leave some people with often debilitating symptoms Read more…
In October 2021, PC World reviewed Windows 11 and labeled it as an “unnecessary replacement” to Windows 10 and did not recommend it for Windows 10 users. PC World noted that it was a “mixed bag of improved features and unnecessary changes.” Six months later they reviewed it again. While Read more…
Meta Platforms is planning to release four virtual reality headsets between now and 2024, according to an internal road map viewed by The Information. The aggressive timeline reflects Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s desire to advance his vision of the metaverse by getting more people to use VR devices. Whether he Read more…
Extreme weather due to the climate crisis is expected to increasingly make some Australian homes “uninsurable,” with a new report suggesting up to one in 25 households will struggle to be covered by 2030. The analysis by the Climate Council, using data from consultants Climate Valuation, mapped the 10 electorates Read more…
28-year-old Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people in New Zealand in 2019. The Associated Press reports that at that point he’d been reading 4Chan for 14 years, according to his mother — since the age of 14. The year before, 25-year-old Alek Minassian, who killed 11 people in Toronto in 2018, Read more…
As a category, mental health apps have worse privacy protections for users than most other types of apps, according to a new analysis from researchers at Mozilla. Prayer apps also had poor privacy standards, the team found. “The vast majority of mental health and prayer apps are exceptionally creepy,” Jen Read more…
Less than two years after Google dismissed two researchers who criticized the biases built into artificial intelligence systems, the company has fired a researcher who questioned a paper it published on the abilities of a specialized type of artificial intelligence used in making computer chips. The researcher, Satrajit Chatterjee, led Read more…