Synchron Implants Enable Mind-Driven Control of Amazon’s Alexa
Next week, Apple will launch ‘Glowtime,’ a special live stream event. The iPhone 16 is expected to drop, but the tech giant remains tight-lipped on official details. Rumors of new features have been swirling. Out of the many predictions buzzing online, here’s what we believe you’ll see at Glowtime.
The Tesla Optimus Robot: Where’s the AI?
Next week, Apple will launch ‘Glowtime,’ a special live stream event. The iPhone 16 is expected to drop, but the tech giant remains tight-lipped on official details. Rumors of new features have been swirling. Out of the many predictions buzzing online, here’s what we believe you’ll see at Glowtime.
GGD Startup: Modern Fertility
Fertility testing used to be an expensive, time-consuming process; regulated to private labs and boxed in by specialist recommendations. In 2017, founders Afton Vechery and Carly Leahy developed a simple, at-home fertility testing kit; allowing women to check for up to 7 hormones through a simple prick.
Recall: 110,000 Boxes of Antibiotics in France
France’s medical safety authority, Agence nationale de sécurité du médicament (ANSM) has issued a recall of 110,000 boxes of Amoxicillin, the country’s most popular antibiotic medication.
Halliburton Hit by Cyberattack
Oil services giant Halliburton experienced a cyberattack on Wednesday, at the company’s headquarters in north Houston, Texas. Very few details have been released, but the attack is believed to have impacted part of Halliburton’s business operations in Houston as well as global connectivity networks.
McDonald’s Instagram Account Gets Hacked
Hackers took over McDonald’s official Instagram account this week, advertising a Solana meme coin to followers. As a result of their promotion, the hackers were able to make approximately $700K.
Election Websites in Florida Crash
Multiple election websites across Florida crashed on Tuesday, shortly after polls closed. The websites were supposed to publish county election results, but due to what has simply been described as “tech outages” residents of several counties could not directly access sites or were timed out and thereby blocked.
The GGD Hit List: HIV Patient Cured, AI Voice Cloning Revs Up, and a New Time Zone
The GGD Hit List is a weekly, curated list of discoveries in tech and science. For this edition, we rounded up news in everything from a possible cure for HIV to a new time zone. Here are the top innovation headlines for this week.
GGD Top Pick: Audio-Technica’s Wireless ‘Beginner’ Turntable
Buying a CD and reading song credits, rewinding a mixtape or finding your parents old vinyl records around the house have become uncommon experiences. The Audio-Technica LP70XBT caters to digital audiophiles who desire a more visceral, throwback connection to music.
Recall: Infla-650 Herbal Dietary Supplements
GGD Profiles is where we highlight startups transforming the world. Photoroom is a photography app which allows to edit hundreds of images in seconds. Using AI tech, Photoroom has established key tools like Background Remover, Batch Mode or Retouch to let users create stunning images.