While research tends to go back and forth on the advantages of noise versus silence for creativity and productivity, I always find myself more relaxed and focused at work after turning on a light ...

From soothing drones and chimes to the sound of rain gently tapping on the roof - ambient music is transforming the way people sleep, focus and relax. Once an esoteric 1970s genre, mood music ...

Take one example: A customer built an ambient agent that monitors employee schedules. If someone appears consistently ...

Ambient AI has emerged as one of the transformative technologies in healthcare. Many announcements from Ambient AI companies came out of the recent HLTH USA conference, highlighting its growing ...

I magine walking into a garden center a decade from now, looking for something to liven up your backyard. A rose bush? Fruit tree? You’re not sure, exactly, but you’ll get to a decision almost ...

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Hunters like to throw around the phrase, “layering system.” While it can seem like a buzzword, gear companies design their pieces within a system. Base layers pull moisture from the body while ...

is editor-at-large and Vergecast co-host with over a decade of experience covering consumer tech. Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. The story of this year’s Google I/O ...

In September 1991, Scientific American published an article by Mark Weiser, the then head of Xerox's PARC computer science laboratory, entitled 'The Computer for the 21st Century'. In that piece he ...

Forget about robots that look like they're straight out of science fiction. ‘Unobtrusive physical AI,’ as the technology is ...