Our First Look At Alphabet’s Smart City
Timber towers and smart pavement: Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs is sharing an early glimpse of its Toronto development.

August 16, 2018 at 10:16AM
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This Omnidirectional Treadmill Can Track Your Real-Life Steps For VR
We’ve always wondered if a technology like this could be possible. The folks over at Transport Systems Catapult in Milton Keynes, England seem to have it pretty much figured out.

August 16, 2018 at 09:20AM
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What Uber Would Have Looked Like If It Existed In The ’80s
Do you want a smoking or non-smoking car?

August 16, 2018 at 08:00AM
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VFX Artist Completely Transforms A Woman Using Beauty Retouching And Age Reduction Techniques
We would never have second-guessed the footage of the “younger” woman.

August 16, 2018 at 06:47AM
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Inside The Research Lab Teaching Facebook About Its Trolls
It’s an evolving, somewhat delicate relationship between a corporate behemoth that wants to appear transparent without ceding too much control and a young research group that’s ravenous for intel and eager to establish its reputation.

August 16, 2018 at 06:29AM
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The Best Thing Online This Week Is This Cyberpunk Game You Control With Your Voice
The goal of Nicole He’s “ENHANCE.COMPUTER” is simple: find a four-digit code hidden in a picture before someone commits a crime. The only catch is that the only thing you can use to find it is your voice.

August 15, 2018 at 01:41PM
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Charging Has Changed How I Interact With Friends
Fast charging plays a big part in how we interact.

August 15, 2018 at 10:34AM
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Haptic Feedback Is Making VR Surgery Feel Like The Real Thing
A cheaper (and cleaner) way to experience what it feels like to saw through bone.

August 15, 2018 at 03:00AM
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Tinder’s Co-Founders And 8 Others Sue Dating App’s Owners, Claiming They’re Owed $2 Billion
The dispute centers on an analysis of Tinder done in 2017 by Wall Street banks to set a value for stock options received by Sean Rad, a Tinder co-founder, and other early employees. It also includes an allegation of sexual harassment against Tinder’s former CEO, Greg Blatt.

August 14, 2018 at 07:17PM
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MoviePass Is Un-Canceling People’s Accounts
A lot of MoviePass users are currently discovering via email that they’ve been re-subscribed, and many don’t even seem aware that they’d opted in.

August 14, 2018 at 04:06PM
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