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I sometimes fantasize about hanging an enormous painted portrait of yours truly on my bedroom wall. Visitors would be forced to genuflect before the picture and leave a gift beneath it as a token of respect. Unfortunately, I have neither the money to buy artworks nor the skills to paint one myself. But those barriers will no longer stop me from fulfilling my dream. A team of researchers has developed a tool that will paint your portrait for you....

Saving the world keeps getting harder every year. Not so long ago we were told thatwehad the power to make a difference if we all just sorted our recyclables. Unfortunately, that hasn’t quite panned out the way we were led to believe it would. The big problem is people. We suck at sorting, most of us don’t have access to proper bins and recycling services, and there’s just too much garbage for us to properly manage each day....

Detecting COVID-19 is not easy, because the symptoms it causes vary greatly from one person to the next. If you have some symptoms such as a sore throat, fever, cough, or loss of smell or taste, you’ll know that you need to get yourself checked. That’s why companies likeVocalisare developing solutions to pre-screen people using simple technologies such as voice andmobile apps to predict if someone has COVID-19. What problem is it solving?...

It’s almost paradoxical. You find a problem with a product that’s so glaring and obvious you can’t imagine any rational person wouldn’t notice it on first use. Yet thousands or millions of people are paying money for it. I’ll give you an example. It never fails to completely blow my mind that the Disney+ streaming interface on desktop doesn’t have a button to play the next episode of a TV show....

TLDR:The Air Pix Pocket-Sized Flying Camera is a selfie cam drone that’s like having your own airborne photographer at all times. Sometimes, you want a drone that cuts through the air like a fighter jet, bobbing and weaving and zinging along like an aerobatic daredevil. Other times, you just want a drone that snaps a cool selfie from an angle you’d never get otherwise. While aerodynamics and flight plan routing and headless, multi-axis navigation is awesome, a solid camera that locks itself in the air and turns the best chance of scoring you a brilliant shot can definitely be just as awesome....