I recently watched a TED Talk presented by Wanis Kabbaj, the director of global strategy for healthcare logistics at UPS, it was titled What a driverless world could look like and was recorded in September 2016 at TED@UPS. A quick summary of the talk: "What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we can find inspiration in the genius of our biology to design the transit systems of the future. In this forward-thinking talk, preview exciting concepts like modular, detachable buses, flying taxis and networks of suspended magnetic pods that could help make the dream of a dynamic, driverless world into a reality" I found Wanis Kabbaj's presentation to be very thorough and informative. His idea of introducing a mode of transportation that resembles the smoothness and efficiency of blood flow through our veins is quite ingenious. Transportation issues have been plaguing ci...
I tuned into to a video podcast hosted by Leo Laporte (The Tech Guy) on Twit. This was episode 1422, published on 11/25/17, and was titled iPhone 8 Plus vs. iPhone X. After 10 minutes of unrelated chatter, Laporte starts the discussion by saying that ultimately he believes that the iPhone X is the best iPhone ever made. He discusses how the differences between the two handsets are quite minimal in some regards, such as the hardware of the cameras. He spends a relatively long period of time expressing his opinion on the Face ID feature found only on the iPhone X. He believes that Face ID isn't as reliable as the traditional Touch ID found on the iPhone 8 plus; as well as other models released in the year 2013 onward. According to Apple Face ID is much more secure than Touch ID; the chances of someone other than you unlocking your iPhone X is 1 to 1 million, while the chances are 1 to 50,000 for Touch ID. Laporte points out that Apple's claim is invalid in some respects because...