A year in music starts 2017 with the best of 2016

The early days of January – the email inbox is still quiet, things are for many still moving slow. But if musical perspective is possible only with hindsight, it’s a moment when the picture of a moment in musical history…

Formlabs adds new ceramic resins and tools for experimenters

Formlabs makes powerful 3D printers that can make objects that look as solid and smooth as injection-molded parts. Now, however, they’ve added improved materials including a new grey material that is completely matte and reformulated for optimal printing and a…

Here’s what internet is like in Cuba

People sit near a Wi-Fi hotspot in a square at Havana, Cuba March 19, 2016.REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado It’s not exactly a secret that Cuba has notoriously bad internet. For those travelers heading to Cuba for vacation, the lack of internet is…

NVIDIA made a self-driving car with its Xavier supercomputer

At NVIDIA’s CES 2017 keynote address, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced his company’s plan to turn your car into "your most personal robot." Specifically, NVIDIA announced the company’s AI car supercomputer called the Xavier — an auto-grade, 512-core Volta GPU and…

The real Technics is dead (again)

Technics just announced the Grand Class SL-1200GR turntable at CES 2017. It’s basically just a slightly adjusted version of the SL-1200G that they announced last year. Vinyl enthusiasts were hoping that this would be a budget model, but that might not be…