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We Tried the New Volvo EX60 at Daylesford – And Here’s What We Thought
An AI assistant, a concert hall setting and a roof that changes tint: The Modems’ co-founders Natalie Salmon and Emmy Brunner explore Volvo’s approach to making everyday driving feel a little more extraordinary. There are certain things we would quite like our next car to understand. That the playlist is an essential part of the…
Read MoreMeta’s New Ray-Ban AI Glasses Have No Video Camera – And No It’s Not Because Of The Backlash
Ray-Ban Meta Audio ditches the camera entirely. Eva Chen told The Modems the glasses were fully built long before the privacy backlash.
Read MoreMeta’s Muse Charm wants to be the smartest accessory in your handbag
Your keys, lip balm, emergency concealer… and a personal AI agent? Meta’s latest reveal suggests our everyday essentials could be getting an unexpected addition. Meet Muse Charm, a pocketable device designed to bring Muse, the company’s personal AI agent, along for the ride. And yes, the name alone has our accessory-loving attention. Unveiled by Mark…
Read MoreDyson Has Put A Camera In Your Toothbrush For A Very Good Reason
The Dyson CameraJet is a toothbrush with a 100k-pixel camera that spots the gaps between your teeth and jets mouthrinse into them while you brush. It lands 1 September at £419.99.
Read MoreA Dry Shampoo For Clothes Has Raised $1.2 Million
Ex-Citadel trader Maria Cabral Menezes raised $1.2m for WashWise, a spray for clothes too clean to wash and too worn to rewear. The pitch, the maths, the caveats.
Read MoreFrom a Smarter Siri to Menopause Support: The New Apple Features I Can’t Stop Talking About
Let me set the scene: California sun, an iced coffee sweating in one hand, my press lanyard swinging like the season’s most coveted accessory, and me – grinning like I’ve just landed the FROW at JW Anderson’s first Dior show… because there are very few places I’d rather be than at Apple Park for my…
Read MoreQuishing Is the New Phishing: QR Code Scams Are Rising Worldwide
Once upon a pre-pandemic time, QR codes were the clunkiest of tech conveniences – awkward, rarely used, and mostly reserved for warehouse logistics. Fast-forward to now and they’re everywhere: restaurant menus, parking meters, concert posters, even email inboxes. Which is exactly why cybercriminals have fallen in love with them. Welcome to the era of quishing…
Read MoreWe Tried Dcypher’s AI Skin Scan Foundation – And It Felt Like Beauty’s iPhone Moment
Founded by beauty industry veteran Ruth De Leo and technology specialist Adam Triantis, Dcypher exists to solve a problem the beauty industry quietly avoids: traditional shade ranges are commercially restrictive, wasteful and fundamentally exclusionary. “I’ve worked in the beauty industry for about 15 years now… I guess that’s when the kind of love or desire…
Read More“Stealing Isn’t Innovation”: Why Scarlett Johansson Is Drawing A Line On AI ‘Theft’
In the ever-blurring space where technology meets culture, a new fault line has appeared – and it runs straight through Hollywood, publishing houses and recording studios. Scarlett Johansson, alongside Cate Blanchett, Olivia Munn, Breaking Bad’s Vince Gilligan and musicians including REM, Cyndi Lauper and Simon Le Bon, has signed an open letter accusing tech companies…
Read MoreLost in Translation? WhatsApp’s New Update Just Fixed That
If you’ve ever nodded politely in a multilingual group chat while quietly pasting messages into Google Translate, WhatsApp’s latest update is about to change your life. This month, WhatsApp began rolling out an in-chat translation feature that allows users to translate messages directly within the app – no copy-paste gymnastics required. The goal, according to…
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