Jeff Bezos apparently wasn’t satisfied with merely flying through space. The world’s richest person now wants to occupy it. Bezos’ Blue Origin on Monday announced plans to build a commercial space station…
Month: October 2021
Why the Musk vs. Bezos space feud is probably fake
Flick through a news feed on your phone and you are likely to scroll across an article discussing the heated rivalries of the new space race. Forget the geopolitical struggles of a…
Algorithms can’t replace Lewis Hamilton, even if they’re faster drivers
While Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen were racing for the Formula 1 title over the weekend, self-driving cars were fighting for the inaugural Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) championship. The Technical University of…
Can art mobilize people to fight climate change? This artist thinks so
Neuroscientists at Columbia University observed a curious thing. When they asked a group of test subjects to concentrate on a painting of an angel wielding a sword, they found it triggered responses…
Windows XP is 20! But will Microsoft ever learn to NOT fix what isn’t broken?
Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements. As of August this year, Windows XP still maintained a…
Enjoy BelkaVPN online protection for life for under $40
TLDR: This VPN service allows ultra-fast, ultra-protected online activity anonymously, all for a one-time lifetime subscription price of just $39.99. It’s never easy to know exactly how secure you are anywhere online….
If you miss the days of the easy to use TV remote, this device is bringing ’em back
TLDR: This remote has all the buttons you’re used to, but it works with Apple TV units as well as your home set, all for under $30. You stream. I stream. We…
Feast your eyes on this ‘prototype’ of the original iPod
Over the weekend, the Apple iPod turned 20. To honor this, we created a deluge of content, including vox pops, how it got us through war, and comparing it to the Zune….
Ethereum’s upgrade is finally coming — will it overtake Bitcoin?
The world’s second most valuable cryptocurrency, ether, has been touching all-time highs in price ahead of a major upgrade of its underlying platform, ethereum. Ether is currently worth in aggregate just shy…
Hybrid work isn’t perfect, but SCIENCE can help us improve it
COVID-19 has changed the way we work. Even before the pandemic, the U.S. workforce increasingly relied on remote collaboration technologies like videoconferencing and Slack. The global crisis accelerated the adoption of these…