U=(N/T)M*G: Meltdown
I guess Google had a meltdown? It lasted long enough for people to notice? I must have been at the day job when that happened and missed it. It’s pretty … Read more
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In Today’s Robot News…
Boston Dynamics, the company that has chronicled its development of robots characterized by viewers as both entertaining and terrifying, has launched its 4-legged canine-like Spot robot. Writes Boston Dynamics: “Spot … Read more
Greenland May Soon Be Green Again – Live Science
Greenland is melting faster today than it has at any time in the last 350 years, and probably much longer, new research finds. Surface melt from the icy island has … Read more
SCIENCE: Is This “Hairy Ogre” Microbe A Whole New Branch on the Tree of Life?
Who needs aliens when there are bizarre life forms still to be discovered in Canada? Scientists recently detected two previously unknown species of microbes in a Canadian dirt sample, and … Read more
TECH: We May Finally Get Our Flying Cars
A “flying car” company funded by Google co-founder Larry Page seems to finally have a prototype that looks something like a personal aircraft people might actually use. The company, Kitty … Read more
TECH & SEX: Porn AI Predicts Naughty Search Terms
People’s future porn habits have been revealed – at least according to YouPorn’s artificial intelligence system. By the end of 2018, your favourite porn search terms will apparently include “girl … Read more
Virgin Unveils Hyperloop that Will Travel 760 Mph
Virgin Hyperloop One has released a prototype for a levitating pod that is designed to zoom at speeds as high as 760 mph (1,200 km/h) through a Hyperloop connecting Dubai … Read more
New Play Looks at All Male Society and Male Pregnancy
What if women were extinct? What if men evolved to bear children — and invented “Feminism” as a religion, devoted to making the world hospitable for the second coming of … Read more
Making Astrology Queer – Gay Star News
Colin Bedell, a self-described gay Gemini Twin from Long Island, New York, is on a mission to make astrology more inclusive of queer identities. ‘The soul has no gender,’ Bedell … Read more
