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Month: April 2022
Zuckerberg: The metaverse will be ‘very exciting’ — in the 2030s
Yesterday, Meta announced its second quarterly results after its major rebranding, and things were a bit more positive this time around. The company gained daily active users (1.96 billion from 1.92 billion…
How the sci-fi tech in Marvel movies influences real-world products
The lines between fiction and reality are blurry for John LePore. As a futurist and creative director who works on both movies and products, LePore not only crisscrosses these borders — he…
Open-sourcing Twitter’s algorithms is more complex than Elon Musk implies
Of all the grand ideas that Elon Musk has for Twitter, the one that he’s pitched most fervently is making the platform’s algorithms open source. The Tesla tycoon proposed the plan before…
Startups are leading the way in agtech and food innovation
Right now, agtech and new food startups are hot in terms of funding, technical innovation, product development, and ROI. Today Startup Genome, in partnership with the Global Entrepreneurship Network launched the Global…
Time travel could be possible, but only if parallel timelines can coexist
Have you ever made a mistake that you wish you could undo? Correcting past mistakes is one of the reasons we find the concept of time travel so fascinating. As often portrayed…
Mini Cooper maker’s new ebikes are merging high tech and retro cool
I always thought Mini Coopers were pretty cool, so I was pleased this week to learn that the Cooper Car Company, the original designer of the Mini Cooper, rolled out not one,…
New leaked images give us a glimpse of the Pixel Watch design
We’ve really waited for a long time for Google to put out a really good competitor to the Apple Watch. And we might see that happen in just a few months from…
I’m kicking myself for not knowing this simple note-taking trick for Mac
I’ve been using a Mac for a few years now, and I regularly take quick notes — it might be to jot down a phone number, remind myself about a task, or…
What is the Ethereum merge and how could it make crypto greener?
Ethereum is preparing for an upgrade that’s been described as “the single most important event in crypto history.” The transition would overhaul the infrastructure of the world’s second-largest blockchain. Analysts predict the…