Fever Scout is like a medical device given a Nike makeover.
It’s 3 a.m., and your baby is crying. You go into the room and realize he’s burning up. The options from here are bleak—probe your thrashing child with a steel-tipped rectal thermometer, or swipe across his head with an unreliable skin thermometer. And even if he’s in the safe range and falls back asleep, chances are good you’ll be up for the rest of the night worrying.
Can the buy-one-give-one model work for housing?
On a flight to Vancouver, two real estate developers happened to sit next to Toms shoes founder Blake Mycoskie. They started to talk, and had an idea: Could the one-for-one model pioneered by Mycoskie also be applied to housing?
And how the terrorist group’s coordinated attacks in Paris represent a disturbing turn of events
ISIS has marched across the Middle East and North Africa, recruiting fighters in what has seemed a frightening, if largely contained, threat. But a new set of visualizations on the New York Times suggests that things might have changed with last week’s Paris attacks. If ISIS is indeed responsible as it has claimed, it’s the first time the organization has launched an organized attack outside of its normal provinces.
German regulators are investigating claims that Apple’s agreement with Amazon subsidiary Audible has helped it monopolize audiobook sales.
Germany’s competition regulator, the Federal Cartel Office, has launched an investigation into the deal Apple inked years ago with Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobooks company, according to Reuters. The probe should address allegations that Apple’s agreement with the tech company has given Amazon an unfair advantage in the audiobooks business in Germany.
Uber now lets drivers pick up passengers headed in the same direction as them.
Car-hailing startup Uber’s latest new feature, currently available only in the San Francisco Bay Area, is aimed at drivers who are beginning or ending their shifts. Uber drivers in the Bay Area now have access to a destination setting feature that lets them pick up only riders who wish to travel in the same general direction they are headed.
A video published by the New York Times Magazine shows how autonomous vehicles understand—and occasionally misunderstand—their surroundings.
Much has been made about how the driverless car of the future will look to the world. A new video published online as part of the New York Times Magazine‘s Future Issue shows how the world will look to a driverless car. The short answer? Not as clear as you’d hope.
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