Just because you’re no longer alive and you have to travel around in a white sheet doesn’t mean you can’t also look your best, right? At the end of the day, ghosts have feelings too. And on a special occasion…
Google’s AlphaGo already beat us puny humans to become the best at the Chinese board game of Go. Now, it’s done with humans altogether. DeepMind, the Alphabet subsidiary behind the artificial intelligence, just announced AlphaGo Zero. The latest iteration of…
As Nanex’ Eric Hunsader shows, today’s trading session is shaping up – at least for now – as the biggest post-midnight selloff in the S&P in 2017. With a notable risk-off tone… The selloff is global… AsiaPac… Europe……
The MysteryVibe is a snake-shaped vibrator that took the Internet by storm and is still going strong. This week I talked to the co-founder of the company, Stephanie Alys, about the future of pleasure and sextoys. It’s safe to say…
GIF Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of a dystopian future where books have been outlawed and are destroyed by firemen who set them ablaze. But in an ironic twist, Super Terrain, a publisher in France, has created a…
TNT Last night, Gordon Hayward’s season ended just six minutes after it started when he landed awkwardly after an alley-oop and suffered a serious leg injury in the process. There’s currently no timetable for his return, but based on how…
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…