Being afraid that machines will replace you at your job is a perfectly reasonable concern these days. Tech companies seem to come up with some new AI-powered thingamajig every other day in an attempt to replace human workers. But some jobs, at least, are safe for now. For instance, this experiment from China shows that …
It seems every day you hear about another AI-powered form of surveillance creeping into our lives. Don’t you wish you could fool the devices and disappear from their prying eyes? Now you can. But doing so requires you to don one butt-ugly shirt. German designer Simon Weckert has designed a veritable invisibility cloak that makes …
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Have you ever noticed that modern cars all look more or less the same? We’ve pretty much perfected the science behind the automobile, and there are only so many ways to make a fuel-efficient car. It wasn’t always like that, especially in the early days of motoring. Nobody had yet quite figured out what these …
Some things in our homes have remained virtually unchanged for centuries, if not millennia. Even a peasant from an ancient world would recognize basic tables, chairs, and maybe some toys or sports gear. Many things in our homes, though, would be completely unrecognizable to the people of the past – at least in their modern …
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Oh man, you just woke up in the middle of the night and you really need to go. But you’re so sleepy and it’s so cozy and warm under the blanket… Wouldn’t it be nice if the toilet could instead come to you? Now it can – but at a hefty cost. Allow me to …
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Picture a future where a robot would come to rescue people caught in a disaster. What would the robot look like? Maybe it could be soft and cuddly, like the Baymax robot from Disney’s Big Hero 6. Or maybe it could look like a caprine emissary of Satan. Californian robotics company Satyress has gone for …
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Do you know all about these accidental inventions? Like silly putty or potato chips? Alexander Fleming – Discovered penicillin in 1928 after noticing that mold had accidentally contaminated a petri dish and killed nearby bacteria. The mistake helped create modern antibiotics. Percy Spencer – Discovered the idea behind the microwave oven when a candy bar …
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Are you sick of living in a crowded city with endless traffic jams and foul air? Would you like to wake up to an ocean breeze every day as you roam the seven seas? I have good news for you. You can do that without even becoming a sailor on the Freedom Ship! Assuming it …
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A peculiar fad is taking South Korean youths by storm. They are spending time on online shopping apps, placing one order after another. Oddly, none of them will ever receive the things they buy. That’s fine, though, as none of them has paid a won for anything. After all, the shopping apps are all fake. …
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Multiplayer games can be a lot of fun, allowing you to work with or against other players to overcome challenges too big for one person. But they can also demonstrate surprising things about human cooperation. Sometimes, those things aren’t pretty. Player behavior in multiplayer games has (often unintentionally) helped advance our understanding of economics, psychology, …
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