Technology

Duolingo challenged the mayor to learn Haitian Creole on its app for 30 days in a row.

“I thought maybe it’s a kid somewhere, but I looked around and there’s nobody outside.”

Two Miami Art Week events feature nearly the same name with nearly identical spelling.

A new Miami Herald writer has been pumping out bylines like a machine.

The past year has offered us a trove of Zoom court bloopers, from butt injections to courtroom barn animals to Zoom-bombs with lots of booty shaking.

“Everyone minds their own business, except these people.”

Imagine the Kentucky Derby taking place 30,000 feet in the clouds above a Tron-like digital world, where purse prizes are paid in a futuristic currency called Ethereum.

On social media, guests who flew to Miami from around the world griped about long lines outside the Wynwood convention center.

While larger Miami governments are studying how to integrate Bitcoin, the Town of Miami Lakes is already accepting cryptocurrency for town services.

Soon, when customers pay for tables and drinks, they’ll have the option of using digital currency.

Adult webcam site CamSoda is offering free access to passengers quarantined on two cruise ships.

Miamians can call a Lyft, grab a Lime scooter, or hop on a Citi Bike all from the palm of their hand. And beginning next week, they’ll also be able to jump on a paddleboard.

For Venezuelans enduring widespread food shortages and the daily desperation caused by hyperinflation, a months-long wait for hundreds of thousands of dollars in promised humanitarian aid just got a little longer.

Over the past ten years, no single state saw more of its residents stuck without electricity than Florida. Between 2008 and 2018, more than 25.3 million Floridians experienced power outages.

What’s striking about Dr. Grordbort’s (say that five times fast) is how similar it feels to any other virtual-reality shooter available on the Oculus Rift or PlayStation VR. Using the console’s control wand as a gun, you point and shoot at enemies who appear through your Magic Tech goggles. This all feels familiar. What’s different though, is how Magic Leap uses the environment around you as a stage.

Pepper is a small, humanoid robot with a childlike voice developed by SoftBank Robotics, a Japanese tech company. She is the new greeter at the HSBC’s branch on Brickell Avenue.

For months, Ford has been using Miami-Dade County as a testing ground for self-driving cars in a partnership touted as a way to reduce the area’s maddening traffic problems. Now, shiny new Transit Connect vans emblazoned with the words “self-driving delivery service” have hit the road to deliver for 70 local businesses.

Most cell-phone-using Americans might not be familiar with BLU, a Miami-based tech company that makes budget-level Android phones and sells them at markedly cheap prices. But the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges some third-party Chinese data-collection agencies knew BLU well. The company was secretly selling phones infected with spyware…

People who deliver pizza in Miami live in the most disparate city in America. Study after study shows that Miami-Dade County is arguably the cruelest metro area for the working poor, a place with next to zero affordable homes. The city’s lack of middle-class job opportunities means residents make a median income of $43,000 per year…

Miami, much like its tourist-haven compatriot Last Vegas, regularly gets flooded with odd groups of convention delegates. Typically, those attendees represent boring industries like the National Corn Growers’ Association. But this week, Miami has been invaded by Bitcoin and cryptocurrency investors.

Sometimes, bros will be bros. Pranks will be played, and shenanigans will take place. Sometimes, though, bros being bros can go horribly wrong, especially when alcohol is involved and those bros joke about ISIS on social media.