Tech
Are We Heading for a Digital Dark Age?
Apparently, Google’s Vint Cerf is a little worried about all the information we store on our computers. From the BBC…
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Engineers Create Teleporter that Doesn’t Actually Teleport Anything
…but it’s still pretty cool. The device, designed by German engineers, is actually a modified 3D printer, dubbed “Scotty” after…
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The Underwhelming Mystery of Webdriver Torso
You know, sometimes I’ll sit down to write an article and I’ll think to myself, “This is going be really…
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Strange Inventions: The Isolator (1925)
What’s that? You tried out NaNoWriMo last month but just couldn’t find the opportunity to sit down and concentrate? Happens to the…
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The Ghostly Voice of Joseph Faber’s Euphonia
Behold, Joseph Faber’s Euphonia. This curious amalgamation of various mechanical parts was exhibited in December 1845 at the Music Fund…
Strange Patents: The High Five Machine
If there’s one mystery of the universe I’ve never fully understood, it’s what to do when I feel like giving…
Ray Kurzweil: Computers Will Behave Like Real People By 2029
In 1990, futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that a computer would win a game of chess against a human by 1998.…
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Robot Defeats Humans at Rock Paper Scissors Every Time
We’ve seen robots that can do a lot of things, but now we can add beat humans 100% of the…
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Boston Dynamics Presents: WildCat
Boston Dynamics, with funding from DARPA’s M3 (that’s Maximum Mobility and Manipulation) program, gives us a new look at their…
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Can You Outrun This Cat Robot?
When I woke up this morning, the first thought I had was this: why aren’t there more experimental, headless cat…