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.

  • How a ‘Playboy’ Centerfold Became Part of the Creation of the JPEG

    How a ‘Playboy’ Centerfold Became Part of the Creation of the JPEG

    Blake Montgomery

    In her new book, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History, Samantha Cole traces the twisting history of the “Lena Centerfold,” an image from Playboy that became an international standard for training computers to recognise images. The image, taken in 1972, persisted for decades in computer science, even inspiring…

  • U.S. House Committees Slam ID.me for ‘Baseless’ Unemployment Fraud Claims

    U.S. House Committees Slam ID.me for ‘Baseless’ Unemployment Fraud Claims

    Mack DeGeurin

    ID.me, the controversial biometric identification verification company whose facial match technology provoked a major privacy backlash at the IRS earlier this year, may have misled the public and lawmakers when its CEO claimed the U.S. lost $US400 ($555) billion to fraudulent pandemic unemployment claims. Its biometric services, billed as a convenient and secure way to…