TLDR: With active noise cancellation, epic sound and a host of Apple-centric features, the Airpods Pro are perfect for making the home office really feel like the office. Trying to get work done in your house is never as simple as it seems. When you’re in the office, your focus is usually centered on the…
TLDR: Task Pigeon is a clean, intuitive task management system that puts your entire work life into perspective at a glance. Task management tools all have one ultimate goal: to help users get more done more efficiently. Of course, the irony is that many task management tools actually end up being counterproductive. Laden with so…
In Shoshana Zuboff’s 2019 book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, she recalls the response to the launch of Google Glass in 2012. Zuboff describes public horror, as well as loud protestations from privacy advocates who were deeply concerned that the product’s undetectable recording of people and places threatened to eliminate “a person’s reasonable expectation of privacy and/or anonymity.”…
Supervised machine learning models Logistic Regression Logistic regression is used when you have a classification problem. This means that your target variable (a.k.a. the variable you are interested in predicting) is made up of categories. These categories could be yes/no, or something like a number between 1 and 10 representing customer satisfaction. The logistic regression model uses an…
The world is drowning in plastic. About 60% of the more than 8,700 million metric tonnes of plastic ever made is no longer in use, instead sat mostly in landfill or released to the environment. That equals over 400kg of plastic waste for every one of the 7.6 billion people on the planet. One reason…
Credit: Universal Home Video On April 17 of 1970, the World held its breath when astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, launched themselves towards the Earth at more than 20,000 miles an hour. Soon they were fighting to survive, for six days, in a spacecraft damaged by an explosion in the oxygen tanks.…
The past few months have taught us an important lesson: We’re bad at handling highly contagious diseases. The Earth’s growing population and the ease with which we can travel long distances have contributed to the fast spread of the novel coronavirus to more than 200 countries. For the moment, the main question is, how do…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions for brick and mortar businesses and e-commerce brands alike. While much of the media focus has been on forced closures of retail locations, I’ve also seen plenty of online stores that have been adversely affected by these changes. With supply chain interruptions and adapting to remote teams, even…
Amid the turmoil and anxiety of the coronavirus pandemic, many stuck at home have found a silver lining: they can use the extra time on their hands to learn a new skill. If you’ve been spending the past few days brushing up on your music skills in particular, Steinberg is now offering extended trials for…
Remember when Elon Musk wound up in big trouble for joking about taking Tesla private if its stock price hit $420 — all to (allegedly) impress his pop-star girlfriend Grimes? That turned out to be arguably the most costly tweet of all time. Not only did Musk and Tesla each have to pay $20 million in…
