Health Secretary Matt Hancock has today announced that the NHS is currently working with Amazon on an Alexa skill that’ll allow you to get health advice from the voice-controlled assistant. In a speech made at his local…
The NHS And Amazon Are Working On A Diagnosis Skill For Alexa
The US Will Allow 3D-Printed Gun Blueprints Next Month
Starting next month, US citizens will be legally allowed to find the blueprints for a gun online, download them onto a 3D-printer and then create that firearm from scratch. These…
Jupiter Is So Massive It Had 12 Extra Moons We Didn’t Know Existed
Jupiter is absolutely vast. It’s so big in fact that we’ve only just scratched the surface of what we know about this gas giant. As a case in point, astronomers have…
Convert your weaknesses into assets
“I’m afraid I won’t renew your contract. I am giving you as much advance notice as I can so that you can find something else.” Hearing these words from my…
SpaceX Mars: 5 Things We’ve Learnt From Elon Musk’s Presentation
Elon Musk is going to Mars. It’s not so much an opinion as what now appears to be a statement of fact. The entrepreneur was speaking at the International Astronautical Congress…
Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight – here’s how to see it
Make sure Star Wars isn’t the only celestial event you see tonight. The bright Geminid meteor shower reaches its peak in the early hours of Thursday morning The Geminid meteor…
Spending a Moment with Émilie Du Châtelet
This morning, Émilie Du Châtelet stopped me in my tracks. I’ve been reading Inventing the Mathematician by Sara N. Hottinger. The book, which I’m sure I’ll write more about after reading and…
This Thanksgiving Pass the Stuffing—and Don’t Pass on the Discussion of Social Issues
An oft-repeated adage to never discuss sex, religion or politics at the dinner table is probably never truer than on Thanksgiving. However, in an America where polling reveals we are increasingly divided…
Pixel Buds are the coolest thing to come from Google’s event
Google’s event yesterday had an announcement for just about everyone, whether you’re a smartphone enthusiast or maybe just looking for an inexpensive (or really expensive) smart speaker. But after the announcements of everything we were…
The future of iPhone: An iPhone in every size?
Every few years since its inception, the design of Apple’s iPhone tends to go through some major changes. The first three iPhones are all similar to each other; the iPhone…