Everyone is talking about August’s new “Smart Lock” device that lets you enter your house with your smartphone, and the reception is mixed. The good: It’s simple to install, you get notifications about who goes in and out. A bonus: The Smart Lock knows when you are close—geofencing!—and unlocks when you walk up to it. The bad: It doesn’t always work.
Nymi, the wristband that ID’s you by your heartbeat, is shipping to developers today. It’s a password-less way of securing your other devices. Its Toronto maker Bionym closed $14 million in funding in September.
Facebook and Apple will start paying for women employees to freeze their eggs. Women who’d otherwise pause their executive-track careers in their 30s to have kids may have the choice to delay the kid-bearing until later. Anna Helen Peterson of Buzzfeed started a fascinating discussion about the flip side of this move.
Trying to decide about how to feel re: paid egg freezing. Is it a way for these companies to keep women in the workforce?
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) October 14, 2014
aka a way to prevent the drop-out that usually happens when women get into their 30s, stalling their rise to leadership?
— Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) October 14, 2014
PRECISELY RT @christinefriar: will there be an emerging class of women paid to be surrogates for the corporate women whose eggs are frozen? — Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) October 14, 2014
Oh, and Mark Zuckerberg bought a great big chunk of a Hawaiian island. There are pictures.
Nidhi Subbaraman writes about science and research. Email her at nidhi.subbaraman@globe.com.
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