A brainwave device could give office workers a jolt if they daydream during working hours, reported The Times. The productivity software can spot from a wearer’s brainwaves if they are daydreaming and, through a haptic scarf, jolt them back to work. “If done well, neurotechnology has extraordinary promise,” said Nita Farahany, a technology ethicist, but “if done poorly, it could become the most oppressive technology we have ever introduced on a wide scale across society”.
Zookeepers solve pregnant gibbon mystery
Locals livid over pizza prominence
Residents in a Leicestershire town are up in arms as a ninth pizza takeaway opens in the area. The new arrival, Pizza GoGo, is within walking distance of a number of other fast food outlets providing pizza and locals in Coalville are fed up. “It’s ridiculous,” Ken Morgan, an engineer from Ravenstone, told Leicestershire Live, “you couldn’t force me to eat pizza even if you tried”. Lynne Tanner, 67, said: “It’s annoying because it’s all we seem to get here now.”
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