Your Camera Knows You’re the Picture of Health–or If You Have COVID
Several companies are developing technology that can read your vital signs (and screen for COVID) via your smartphone camera simply by looking at your face.
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Apple Doesn’t Need to Sell More iPhones for its Stock to Rise
Apple’s stock is off nearly 25 percent from its high earlier this year and red flags are waving around slowing iPhone sales, yet the author sees Apple stock on the rise as the company transitions...
Will Technology be the Death of Education?
Schools have lost control of technology. Parents, teachers and students are all equally confused about how to balance tech in the classroom and beyond. The author, a clinical psychologist and school consultant, raises a sobering...
Why the “Luxury” of Apple’s Watch Is Beside the Point
After putting down yet another slavishly admiring profile of top Apple designer Jony Ive this weekend in the egregiously-named "How to Spend It" magazine published by the Financial Times, I had a nagging sense that...
Apple’s Surge in iPhone Sales Matched by Mac
“No company gets attention like Apple. No company,” says Techonomy’s David Kirkpatrick—whether it be from the development of new products like the Apple Watch and Apple Pay, or from news of the company’s profits and...
Kirkpatrick: Amazon Smartphone Move “Brilliant”
Come September, the hottest phone on the market might not be the iPhone, Galaxy, or Nexus, but a new 3D-capable smartphone developed by none other than Amazon. The Internet behemoth has been considering making a...
What’s Behind Apple’s iPhone Deal with China Mobile?
Last week will go down in the history books as the week when China finally entered the high-speed telecoms era with its granting of 4G licenses after years of waiting. But China still has the...
China Lands on iPhone Global Launch Map
China reached an important milestone this week when it was included for the first time in the global launch for Apple’s newest smartphone, the iPhone 5S. The move reflects the growing importance of China to...
Where Do Apple’s iPhones Come From?
Apple has never been as popular as it was in the 2nd quarter of 2013. In the Q3 earnings call, Apple reported that 31.2 million iPhones were sold in that quarter. This was a quarterly...
