The Best Gadgets: Smart Home, TVs, Health Tech, Phones, Smartwatches
Everything you need to know about the best tech gadgets on the planet. Drones, headphones, TVs, Dyson, GoPro and more.
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Apple Supplier All But Confirms iPhone 15’s Touch-Based Buttons Are Gone for Good
Touch-sensitive volume and mute buttons are no longer coming to market, apparently.
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You Could Soon Move Around in VR With an iPhone, an Apple Watch, and Some Airpods
Accurate full body tracking has benefits for everything from fitness applications, to gaming, to virtual reality, but no one wants to squeeze into one of those form-fitting body tracking suits that Hollywood uses to create visual effects. It turns out there’s a less awkward solution, and it leverages the devices you’re already carrying around all…
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These New Yorkers Want to Stop Landlords From Using Facial Recognition
Brooklyn resident Fabian Rogers knew he had to act in 2018 when his penny-pinching landlord suddenly attempted to install a facial recognition camera in the entrance of a rent-stabilised building he’d called home for years. Under the new security system, all tenants and their loved ones would be forced to submit to a face scan…
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Palestinians Subject to ‘Omnipresent’ Facial Recognition, Amnesty Report Finds
The Israeli military is increasingly deploying experimental new facial recognition software to monitor Palestinians and “supercharge segregation” in the West Bank, according to a new Amnesty International report released Tuesday. Amnesty found that Israeli authorities are using a little-known advanced surveillance tool called “Red Wolf” to monitor and restrict Palestinian residents’ movements across key checkpoints…