Roboticist Gil Weinberg talks about our weird android future Georgia Tech’s Gil Weinberg has a thing or two to say about interacting with robots. A musician and roboticist, Weinberg has created some of the coolest robots I’ve seen including Shimon,…
It’s about making the lives of scientists and researchers easier, Jensen Huang, CEO and co-founder of Nvidia tells TechCrunch. He’s speaking of the keynote address he intends to give at the company’s upcoming GTC conference. Held in San Jose, miles…
All images by Mark Tipple. Used with Creative Commons permission. Surf and underwater photography are among one of the most fascinating and exciting genres, but Australian freelance photographer and filmmaker Mark Tipple had a different idea in mind…
Have you ever unexpectedly found yourself with a snatch of time in which to steal a nap? You tried to settle into the chair or nook in which you found yourself, closed your eyes, and then . . . you…
In an increasingly cashless world, the need to carry physical money is rapidly on the way out. And, one institution that previously relied on physical cash for donations are making big changes to adapt. The Church of England introduced contactless…
If you can’t bring yourself to delete your Facebook account entirely, you’re probably thinking about sharing a lot less private information on the site. The company actually makes it pretty easy to find out how much data it’s collected from…
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a massive area measuring more than 1.6 million square kilometers, but it’s just part of the North Pacific Gyre, an ocean region where currents collect plastic. Researchers from the Ocean Cleanup foundation conducted a survey…
Netflix A new Netflix documentary series called Wild Wild West about the controversial Rajneesh Movement of the 1980s has viewers hooked and binge-watching it like crazy. Released by Netflix on March 16th, Wild Wild West covers the world’s most controversial…
The actor Jim Carrey has taken his artistic war on Twitter with President Donald Trump to a new and sexually explicit level. The latest drawing, posted Friday, features Trump in bed with a woman who is presumably the adult-film star…
The brain chemical dopamine, associated with reward and motivation, is very different from serotonin, associated with contentment and true happiness. You can’t get contentment from an app or from a purchase, but you can click or buy your way to…
