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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The Amazon Kindle Scribe Is a Great e-Reader and a Very Expensive Etch A Sketch
The Amazon Kindle Scribe is the perfect size for what I want in an e-reader. But for the price, you’re going to want to use its sub-par note-taking feature.
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Amazon Sued for Allegedly Stealing Driver’s Tips, Launches New Gamified Tipping System
This holiday season, Amazon says it will pay its delivery workers an extra $US5 ($7) every time a customer tells their Alexa smart speaker to thank their driver. That sounds like a nice gesture until you realise Amazon’s allegedly spent years redirecting or stealing tips intended for many of those very same drivers.
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Lawsuit Claims Apple’s AirTags Have ‘Become the Weapon of Choice’ for Stalkers
A pair of women have filed a class action lawsuit against Apple after they claim their exes used the company’s quarter-sized AirTag trackers to stalk them. The lawsuit, viewed by Gizmodo, claims Apple’s alleged missteps around privacy considerations with AirTags amounts to negligence and violates California’s constitutional right to privacy. AirTags, according to the suit,…
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U.S. Cops Say They Only Use Facial Recognition for Leads, but It’s Often the Sole Basis for Arrests, Study Finds
In 2018, a man was arrested for stealing a pair of socks from a T.J. Maxx store in New York City, even though he was signed in at a hospital for the birth of his child when the crime was committed. The police never checked the man’s alibi, and the case rested on a single…