How Crafty ‘Back To The Future’ Fans Invented The Self-Drying Jacket
Possibly the last product from the movie missing a real-life incarnation was Marty’s self-drying jacket from 2015. Now, a new Kickstarter campaign is trying to make it a reality.
December 13, 2015 at 05:04PM
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Inside Deep Dreams: How Google Made Its Computers Go Crazy
Why the neural net project creating wild visions has meaning for art, science, philosophy — and our view of reality.
December 13, 2015 at 03:08PM
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Why Hoverboards Keep Exploding
Those self-balancing scooters that everyone’s calling “hoverboards” don’t actually hover. But that’s not the strangest thing about them—that would be the fact that this year’s most popular holiday gift keeps catching on fire.
December 13, 2015 at 01:06PM
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The world’s first droneport is being built in Nevada
Drones need ports, too. That’s why The Aerodrome is building the world’s first “droneport” in Boulder City, Nevada, about a 30-minute drive from Las Vegas.
December 13, 2015 at 11:47AM
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Life on the Line: A Telephone Conversation With Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu is a messenger, a medium, a macrocosm. As humanity toils from day-to-day, she is channeling the longview, seeing the continuum of mankind on an elongated timeline.
December 13, 2015 at 08:49AM
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New Yorkers, I Am Watching You
“There’s a channel on my television called NYC Drive that simply broadcasts live footage from cameras around the city […] I know this is weird, but I watch the channel a lot.”
December 13, 2015 at 06:09AM
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Apple and Star Wars together explain why much of the world around you looks the way it does
This is the story of two big round things that loom large in our culture.
December 12, 2015 at 04:01PM
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How Elon Musk and Y Combinator Plan to Stop Computers From Taking Over
Their new organization, OpenAI, wants to pursue the most advanced forms of artificial intelligence — and give the results to the public.
December 12, 2015 at 02:56PM
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For Google, Quantum Computing Is Like Learning to Fly
Even if Google’s D-Wave quantum computer isn’t a resounding success, it’ll provide a solid foundation to stand upon.
December 12, 2015 at 02:56PM
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Who Needs A Guard Dog When You Have A Motorized AT-AT Walker?
An engineer wired up an old AT-AT Walker model with an Arduino Uno and an Xbox controller. And now we’re all screwed.
December 12, 2015 at 11:53AM
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