Marketers Tricked SXSW Tinder Users With A Chatbot
There are a few universal truths in online dating: most photos are carefully staged, most profiles are slightly puffed-up, and most people on them (and this is clearly fast-changing) are actually...
View ArticleResearchers Use Femtosecond Lasers To Display Touchable Images In The Air
A Japanese company called Aerial Burton has been using lasers to ionize air molecules in midair for a few years now, thereby creating bright pixels that float in space. Using the original system,...
View ArticleThe MB&F MusicMachine 3 Is A Rich Nerd’s Dream
As we approach Peak Star Wars at last week’s Comic-Con, I’d like to present something so inexplicable yet potentially beguiling that it seems on the verge of exploding into a supernova of rich nerd...
View ArticleBehold! Watch As The Power Of The Wind Instantly Energizes This 3D-Printed...
Do you believe in perpetual motion? The Flat Earth Theory? The sauroids who run our governments? Have I got something for you. The Wind Energy Stored In Gravity project allows you to store wind energy...
View ArticleResearchers Teach Robots To Avoid Childhood Bullies
Kids are mean. Just ask any robot. Robotics engineers have discovered a tendency for little kids – kindergarteners and grade schoolers – to be abusive towards robots when they’re not near their...
View ArticleWatch This Robot Hunt And Kill Destructive Starfish
Dear friends: there is now a robot that can kill starfish underwater by hunting them down and injecting them with poison. The starfish in question is the Crown of Throns Sea Star, a destructive...
View ArticleThe Keurig Kold Is A Space Oddity In The World Of Soft Drinks
The Keurig Kold is such an odd product that it almost looks like it came from a distant world where no one cares about corn syrup ingestion. Clad in white plastic and covered in grills, the case is far...
View ArticleThe Roboroach Is Either The Best Or Worst Holiday Gift Ever
Let’s say you have a certain someone on your list who is really into biohacking. Let’s also assume you’re Ok with having discoid roaches in the house. Then also let’s assume you don’t mind people...
View ArticleWatch manufacturer Sinn loses its mind with a hybrid mechanical/Apple Watch band
As we approach the coming mechanical watch apocalypse strange things will begin happening. Dogs and cats shall live together. Beloved watch brands shall buy each other for no good reason. And storied...
View ArticleWTF is a container?
You can’t go to a developer conference today and not hear about software containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and a bunch of other names with a nautical ring to them.[/tc_dropcap] Microsoft, Google,...
View ArticleWTF is machine learning?
It’s no coincidence that Alan Turing, one of the most influential computer scientists of all time, started his 1950 treatise on computing with the question “Can machines think?” From our science...
View ArticleTranslation startup pulls off the ultimate pivot… to porn
As you watch your favorite adult films – I particularly enjoy My Dinner With Andre – I suspect you often wonder how foreign porn dialogue (“Yur kumberbund haz gefallent unto minna lutefisk,” for...
View ArticleThe Macallan x Urwerk Flask is $2,000 worth of high-tech boozing
In the annals of mechanical gadgets it doesn't get much simpler than a flask. You open the top, pour booze in and close the top. Then you drink. But what if you could put two boozes into your flask?...
View ArticleWhy do airlines overbook their flights?
We've all been there: You turn up to the gate and there are more passengers than there are seats on the plane. You wouldn't be the first person to think, "If you only have 200 seats, why would you sell...
View ArticleJuicero users find that man trumps machine
FADE IN: EXT. BOHEMIAN GROVE – NIGHT Two VCs are wearing feathered headdresses and leather breeches. One, Anton, is drinking Soylent 3.0 from a bag, the other, Brad, Chateau Margaux 2009 Balthazar from...
View ArticleThe WriteyDesk is a desk you can write on
Whether you’re an unsung mathematical genius with a penchant for writing complex equations all over everything or a damn vandal, you’ll find the WriteyDesk quite useful. This test is essentially a big...
View ArticleHorble gray, Burf pink: This neural network’s attempts to name colors are...
There's hardly anything that we haven't tried putting machine learning to work at, and usually they take to it like a duck to water. That's not the case here, with a neural network attempting to learn...
View ArticleThe Tortilla Drone is the flying robot we’ve all been waiting for
You’ve seen it all before: a drone takes off in an open field, everything is clear. The drone flies straight up for a moment then, on the way down, it hits a tree. A moment later the whole thing is a...
View ArticleLong Island Iced Tea shares went gangbusters after changing its name to Long...
Want to increase company value on the open market? Just change your name to something blockchain. At least, that worked for the Long Island Iced Tea Corp after changing its name to Long Blockchain...
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