This week, we learn about the new browser from DuckDuckGo and share some of our web privacy tips.
This Week
The Ice Cream You Ordered Is Here. A Drone Just Delivered It
Plus: Google beefs up its image search, Lego and Epic lay bricks together, and other consumer tech news from this week.
How Peloton’s Body-Tracking Tech Fits Into Its Future
This week we discuss the Peloton Guide and debate the role the company’s cameras and computer vision tech could play in the coming years.
The Watch World Has Gone Mad (in a Good Way)
Watches & Wonders 2022 landed this week, and with it the watch industry dropped lab-grown gems, light-sucking cases, and 3D-printed gold.
Who’s Behind the Okta Hack?
This week we discuss Lapsus$, the group claiming to have pulled the recent hack on Okta.
Apple Wants You to Subscribe to the iPhone
Plus: The creator of the GIF dies at 74, LG debuts new OLED televisions, and more of this week’s stories from the Gear desk.
So, You Want to Start a DAO
This week, we walk through what it takes to make your own Web3 decentralized autonomous organization. (Yes, there are tokens.)
The AI Placed You at the Crime Scene, but You Weren’t There
This week, we talk about the limitations of using facial recognition technology to identify suspected criminals.
Will Apple Ever Go Back to In-Person Product Launches?
This week, we recap the company’s hardware announcement and ask where all the humanity went.
The Consequences of Freezing Out Russia’s Banks
This week, we discuss how the economic fallout from the invasion of Ukraine is affecting consumer goods sales, mobile payments, crypto, and the gig economy.