
How Femmebots Captured The Cultural Imagination
Is the Instagram influencer her own sort of femmebot?
August 8, 2018 at 02:59PM
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How Femmebots Captured The Cultural Imagination
Is the Instagram influencer her own sort of femmebot?
August 8, 2018 at 02:59PM
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It seems like every major tech company has had enough of Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and propagandist behind the controversial far-right site InfoWars. Well, almost everyone. The obvious holdout: Twitter. On Monday, Twitter said InfoWars and…
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Now that Spotify is on Apple's iMessage and Facebook's Messenger, the company will soon empower you to share and preview songs inside another messaging service, Skype. If you're a US-based Skype Insider with a mobile app version of 8.26 or higher, yo…
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Headlights typically serve one purpose — helping drivers see the road. To illuminate the asphalt at night the lights traditionally had two settings. Low beams for driving around town and passing other vehicles or high beams for seeing more of the ro…
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Apparently, renting out a priceless ancient cultural relic as a hotel for a night isn't the best idea. That's what Airbnb learned after it advertised a contest to spend one night atop the Great Wall of China. After backlash from social media, the com…
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We Happy Few is just around the corner after years of waiting, but you don't have to wait until August 10th to get a feel for its drug-filled dystopia if you have a PlayStation VR headset. Compulsion games has released a free PSVR-only side story, U…
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The Galaxy Note 8's job wasn't just to serve the legions of smartphone users who demand S Pens — it was to rehabilitate Samsung's image after the Note 7, to prove that the company had bounced back from a very public failure. On both counts, I'd…
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Thanks to the success of its smartphones, TVs, appliance and especially chips, Samsung is sitting on a large pile of cash. The company just announced that it will spend a lot of that to develop artificial intelligence, biopharmaceuticals, 5G wireless…
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I Kind of Want This Tiny Robot to Control My Home
Anki doesn’t think it’s cracked the code and developed the perfect robot to work at the center of your smart home, but with Vector it feels it’s created a robot adorable enough, and smart enough, to tide you over until the future finally catches up with our desire.
August 8, 2018 at 12:47PM
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It’s Okay That Magic Leap Costs $2,300 And Isn’t Mind-Blowingly Incredible
Today, secretive augmented reality company Magic Leap finally released the first product: the Magic Leap One. And folks, it’s okay that it was overhyped.
August 8, 2018 at 12:29PM
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