Porsche Takes Aim at Tesla With a Stunning Electric Concept
If you don’t think inanimate objects can be sexy, wait until you see Porsche’s new electric concept: An all-electric sports sedan aimed squarely at dethroning the Tesla Model S as the king of battery-powered cool.
September 14, 2015 at 07:04PM
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Why Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is beefing up its rocket
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic, which wants to ferry tourists into space, is beefing up its rocket so that it can carry bigger payloads to space and help the company compete for another line of work: launching small satellites.
September 14, 2015 at 06:02PM
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Intelligent machines: Making AI work in the real world
Google’s Eric Schmidt discusses how he sees artificial intelligence developing, why it is experiencing such a renaissance and where it will go next.
September 14, 2015 at 04:49PM
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The “Sharing Economy” Is Dead, And We Killed It
Five years ago, everybody was excited about the idea of using tech to borrow things like power drills. In practice, though, not so much.
September 14, 2015 at 03:43PM
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Intelligent Machines: The jobs robots will steal first
If you are sitting at a desk, driving a taxi or carrying a hod, stop for a moment and ask: could a robot or machine do this job better?
September 14, 2015 at 02:28PM
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How a Secret Spy Satellite’s Camera Found a Second Life Mapping the Moon
As the Cold War settled into a deadly balancing act after the Korean Armistice, the Soviet Union’s hostile opacity coupled with its sheer size and remoteness presented a terrific challenge to American military planners and intelligence agencies. One of the solutions came in the form of a surveillance satellite. How did that innovative space technology gain a second life mapping the moon?
September 14, 2015 at 02:28PM
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Artist Uses His Drum Kit To Trigger Animation Loops
Safe to say, this experiment was a resounding success.
September 14, 2015 at 12:30PM
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They Were Quirky
In 2009, a start-up called Quirky built a community that really acted like, well, a community. It told the problem solver in all of us that she no longer had to innovate in a vacuum. Users would assess and workshop each other’s inventions. The most successful ideas, as determined by a vote, would be designed and built by the company. Some made a lot of money. But many, like the company itself, failed.
September 14, 2015 at 07:43AM
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I got a computer chip implanted into my hand. Here’s how it went.
This may seem like a crazy body modification to undertake, but at the “biohacking” events I attended recently, it felt like the conservative option.
September 14, 2015 at 06:00AM
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New DARPA prosthetic arm lets Useres actually feel what it touches
The US government announced that it’s successfully made a Luke Skywalker-like prosthetic arm that allows the wearer to actually feel things.
September 13, 2015 at 08:00PM
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