Woman Cannot Escape Her Automated Luggage
The future features a lot fewer jetpacks and a lot more bullcrap inventions than we had been made to believe.

December 14, 2018 at 11:26AM
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Advertisers Are Tracking Your Emoji Usage Because The Internet Is Bad Now
And they think you’re totally okay with it.

December 14, 2018 at 09:22AM
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The Existential Dread of Gmail’s Auto-Complete Feature
Its predictive powers make users feel… predictable, robotic, and un-singular.

December 14, 2018 at 07:54AM
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The Deadly Recklessness Of The Self-Driving Car Industry
Autonomous vehicles were supposed to make driving safer and they may yet — some of the more optimistic research indicates self-driving cars could save tens of thousands of lives a year in the US alone.

December 14, 2018 at 07:54AM
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The Generator Powered By Neural Networks Is Scarily Good At Making And Tweaking People’s Faces
First we mastered morphing from one face to another, then generating entirely new faces from neural networks — what you’re seeing here is a tool that lets you generate and morph faces based on particular traits like age and pose. Kinda creepy, but maybe this’ll be good for video game character creators?

December 14, 2018 at 06:55AM
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Postmates’ Quest To Build The Delivery Robot Of The Future
It’s a heroic view of what the team here is building, and one that makes Postmates X feel less like a robotics R&D lab, more like a bid to save the world.

December 14, 2018 at 12:42AM
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2018’s Tech Trends And Tribulations In 14 Charts
We’ve endured disasters both natural and manmade, political polarization and the relentless encroachment of big technology companies. Before we leave it behind, here’s a look back at 2018’s tech, tribulations and trends in charts.

December 13, 2018 at 07:00PM
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We Have To Admit, We’d Wear This Windows 95 Sweater
Does… does that mean the brands have won?

December 13, 2018 at 05:18PM
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