As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

THE FUTURE IS HERE: NYPD Deploys a Robot Dog in Public Housing

NYPD Robot Dog

The NYPD’s robot dog is once again stirring privacy concerns and cyberpunk prophesies of some New Yorkers, after the four-legged machine was spotted inside of a Manhattan public housing complex on Monday. A video shared on Twitter shows the robot trotting out of a building on East 28th Street in front of two NYPD officers, then slowly descending the stairs as bystanders look on in shock. “I’ve never seen nothing like this before in my life,” one woman can be heard saying. The remote-controlled bot was made by Boston Dynamics, a robotics company famous for its viral videos of machines … Read more

New York Destroyed Again (In a Simulation)

New York - Deposit Photos

New York City, home to 8.6 million people and one hot duck, has perished in an apocalyptic meteor strike … in a simulation. Over the past week, some 200 space experts from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and other organizations have been melding their minds in order to face the crisis of a hypothetical asteroid barreling through space toward North America. The gathering, called the International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference, convenes every year with the not-so-simple task of figuring out how to save Earth from a head-on asteroid impact — sort of like war games, but on … Read more

News: New York’s New Payphones – Free, and a Wifi Hotspot

The future is here, in NYC: New York’s futuristic, high-tech pay phones — which are embedded with touchscreen tablets — are finally going live on Thursday. The name “pay phone” doesn’t quite do it justice, of course. Yes, the city’s LinkNYC terminals will allow you to make domestic phone calls. But they’ll also let you surf the Web, pull up online maps and connect to city services like 311 and 911. And all of it will be free, thanks to built-in advertising. Powering these features is a series of Android tablets that are built into each of the LinkNYC terminals … Read more