It was another volatile week, with digital recordings of Donald Sterling’s racist jibberish leading to a lifetime ban from the NBA, while the one-time king of portable technology Sony announced dramatically lowering its operating income because of the rapid decline of the Blu-ray market. Old bosses fall away quickly and easily in the tech world, but there is never any shortage of interesting new things to think about. To wit, here are some stories from the tech world you might have missed but definitely shouldn’t have, including everything from earbuds that can measure your heartbeat to a government-funded brain implant to retrieve lost memories.
Michael Thomsen is Complex's tech columnist. He has written for Slate, The Atlantic, Billboard, and is author of Levitate the Primate: Handjobs, Internet Dating, and Other Issues for Men. He tweets often at @mike_thomsen.