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Nathan Gray is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an artist who draws comics on medical topics. @NathanAGray
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has adopted a ‘click to cancel’ rule, which aims to make it easier for people to end subscriptions. It will force companies to make subscription sign-ups and cancellations equally straightforward. Businesses, including retailers and gyms, will also have to get consent from customers before renewing subscriptions or converting free…
Donald Trump’s White House win could have a major impact on antitrust regulation and US policy toward the tech sector — including a pair of pending Justice Department cases against Google. Trump — a longtime Google critic who has accused the search giant of political bias and election interference — has nevertheless expressed reluctance to…
A school in Sheffield has banned the use of smart devices including phones and watches. Forge Valley School no longer allows the use of smartphones, watches or headphones on its premises. Any student found to be using them has to hand them in, with the gadgets not returned for 24 hours. Head teacher Dale Barrowclough…
Amazon has launched a new outlet called Haul which caps the price of products on sale at $20 (£15.79), in an effort to take on low-cost retailers Temu and Shein. The online shopping giant unveiled Haul as a mobile-only experience available in its Shopping app for US customers on Wednesday. It says shoppers can expect…
Journalist Javier Cabral wanted to test Google’s much-hyped, experimental artificial intelligence-powered search results. So he typed out a question about a topic he knew intimately: the Long Beach bakery Gusto Bread’s coffee. In less than a second, Google’s AI summarized information about the bakery in a few sentences and bullet points. But according to Cabral,…
Heath Evans really needed his Sonos speakers to work. He and his wife counted on one of the three wireless devices he owned to play music to help put their baby daughter to sleep. So, in May, when Sonos released a new controller app that was so riddled with problems he couldn’t get the speakers…