As a new Nature paper points out, “There are an astonishing 10 to the power of 170 possible board configurations in Go—more than the number of atoms in the known universe.” (Image: DeepMind) Remember AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence to…
Winner of the “Behavior: Mammals” category. Dozens of sperm whales are seen off Sri Lanka’s northeast coast. (Image: Tony Wu) The Natural History Museum of London has announced the winners of the 2017 Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition. Highlights…
A Hungarian company has designed a bike that is powered by strings and not a chain. The company says the bike is more efficient and cleaner than traditional bikes. The strings can last 2000km and are easy to replace, watch the video…
Phil Libin, the ex-CEO of Evernote, doesn’t eat for two to eight days in a row. He subscribes to an increasingly popular diet called intermittent fasting, which has a host of benefits backed by science. Tech executives say fasting gives them…
Japan’s work culture is so intense, people in the 1970s invented a word that translates to "death by overwork." Karoshi, as it’s known, involves employees committing suicide or suffering from heart failure and stroke due to long hours. The Japanese…
The holiday shopping season is just around the corner. Amazon is helping parents stay on top of the gifts their kids will be begging for with its predictions for this year’s 100 most popular holiday toys. If Amazon’s predictions are correct,…
So you’re skydiving and it has come time to open your parachute. You rip the cord and nothing happens. What next? Well, firstly you try and stay as come as possible because crapping your parachute pants at 12,500 feet isn’t…
Via Shutterstock / Andrea Raffin Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, real name Michael Peter Balzary, is widely considered to be one of the most legendary bass players of all time. When you’re talking about the greatest bass players…
This is basically the car version of the Konami Code, right? There’s an incredible Easter egg tucked away in the computer brains of trucks produced by Russia’s Gorky Automobile Plant. As the video above demonstrates, performing a specific set of…
Authored by Tom Luongo via TomLuongo.me, Bitcoin satisfies Mises’ Regression Theorem as money and that’s why it’s so confusing to some many people. So many people simply misunderstand what cryptocurrencies are and what they can be. Even to the informed…