Lucid Streaming – Real Life
Virtual reality can be as immersive as a movie because it doesn’t look or feel real at all.

October 12, 2016 at 02:44PM
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Why We Need AI To Study America’s Gun Violence Epidemic
Basically, humans can’t get money to research the problem of gun violence in the US. To get around this, some scientists want machines to do the job.

October 12, 2016 at 02:44PM
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Who Would Actually Go to Westworld?
The ambitious sci-fi-Western apparently takes place in a world without shame, or the internet.

October 12, 2016 at 01:29PM
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Who Would Actually Go to Westworld?
The ambitious sci-fi-Western apparently takes place in a world without shame, or the internet.

October 12, 2016 at 01:29PM
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Who Would Actually Go to Westworld?
The ambitious sci-fi-Western apparently takes place in a world without shame, or the internet.

October 12, 2016 at 01:29PM
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Mirror, Mirror – Racked
There are more ways to see ourselves now than ever before — but are we seeing ourselves any more clearly?

October 12, 2016 at 01:29PM
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Why Samsung Abandoned Its Galaxy Note 7 Flagship Phone
The drastic move is highly unusual in the technology industry, where companies tend to keep trying to improve a product rather than pull it altogether.

October 12, 2016 at 12:31PM
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Teaching Siri to Snark
Imagine if Siri and Cortana and Google Assistant could understand sarcasm, and maybe throw it back in equal measure. What would that mean for robotics and the future of artificial intelligence?

October 12, 2016 at 12:31PM
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Machine Learning Sensor Can Easily Identify All Sorts Of Different Objects
This system, created by a team at St. Andrews University in Scotland, uses radar technology and Google’s Project Soli to identify a wide variety of items. In the future, when you come across a strange thing or material, all you’ll need to do is give it a scan before promptly receiving an answer.

October 12, 2016 at 12:23PM
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The Festival Floppies is a treasure trove of forgotten videogame history
There’s a huge variety of programs in The Festival Floppies — a map of the United States that names each state and its capital; a Krusty the Clown screensaver; an early John Romero game; and a text file with jokes about lawyers. “SimCity,” which was released in 1989, is also in there somewhere.

October 12, 2016 at 10:29AM
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