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This tech for your aging parents fights isolation, boosts awareness

Tom Neumann remembers the transformation. He was at a nursing home in Norwalk, Connecticut, last year, demoing a virtual reality platform he co-founded called Rendever. Mickey, an older woman who suffers from dementia and hadn’t talked much or smiled in weeks, gave it a try. She put on the Oculus headset and was virtually transported to a room full of …

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Apple’s Smart Battery Case for iPhone XS and XS Max: Review in progress

If you spend $750 or more on a phone, you probably don’t want to buy a $129 battery case. I’ve gotten more angry tweets about Apple’s just-released smart battery cases for the current-generation iPhones than I can recently remember. Apple’s cases have arrived months after the iPhones debuted in September and October, and after reports that battery replacements may have been …

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