Here’s Proof of Apple’s Downward Fall From Innovator to Imitator
Imitation in the tech world is normal, even expected, but during Apple’s developers conference Monday, Tim Cook and company were in rare form. They didn’t have much uniquely Apple to show off at all. Instead, the company played some catch-up, packing in feature after feature of things we’ve already seen from Apple’s rivals, and in…
Can Gaming Help Renew a Human’s Depth Perception?
At 42, Nic Fleming discovered that he has never really seen in three dimensions. Can new therapies based on video games fix his lazy eye and give him his first glimpse of life in 3D? I’m on the back seat of the lower deck of a number 37 bus, outside the red-brick and Portland stone…
New Solar Storm Forecast Gives Over 24 Hours Warning of Disruption
Solar storms start their lives as violent explosions from the sun’s surface. They’re made up of energetic charged particles wrapped in a complex magnetic cloud. As they erupt from the sun’s surface, they can shoot out into interplanetary space at speeds of up to 3,000 kilometers per second (that’s 6.7 million miles per hour). Depending…