In every sci-fi depiction of an eventual robot apocalypse, the mechanical monstrosities move with cold, calculated precision, dispatching or enslaving humanity with a complete lack of sympathy and no second guessing. But what if robots could actually worry? What if ...
Read More »Apple announces the HomePod
“We want to reinvent home music,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said at the company’s WWDC keynote. The Apple Speaker is focused on music first, not Siri, according to TechCrunch. Apple’s SVP of Global Marketing Phil Schiller said Sonos aren’t smart ...
Read More »SpaceX reschedules Dragon resupply mission launch
According to SpaceX, the next launch opportunity for the mission will be Saturday, June 3, 2017, at 5:07 p.m. Eastern time, according to USA Today. Dragon will attach to the International Space Center and will be the first re-flight of ...
Read More »Stratolaunch rolls out world’s largest aircraft
The aircraft moved out of its hangar at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California for the first time since construction of the giant plane began there several years ago. Two tugs towed the aircraft, resting on its 28-wheel ...
Read More »Elon Musk’s Boring Company reveals ‘underground buses’ for tunnel network
Elon Musk’s ‘Boring Company’ plan to build a network of tunnels under major cities – but so far has only shown car owners using them. Now, the firm has revealed its own vehicle – an underground electric bus, Joinfo.com reports ...
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg called on Harvard’s graduates to help save the environment and cure all disease
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is trying to change the world — and he thinks Harvard’s graduating class can and should be doing the same, Recode reports. Zuckerberg gave the commencement address Thursday at Harvard College, the place where he founded Facebook before ...
Read More »Soft 3D-Printed Robot Is Agile Even on Sand and Rocks
The robot’s ability to reliably walk across different types of surfaces is unique, and so is the fact that its elaborately shaped legs were created with a 3D printer, according to the engineers who developed the bio-inspired creature, Joinfo.com reports ...
Read More »IKEA adds Google Home and Amazon Alexa support to its smart light bulbs
In a new Swedish press release, the popular ready-to-assemble furniture retailer announced its affordable TRÅDFRI line of smart lighting systems is slated to get support for Google Home, Apple HomeKit as well as Amazon Alexa, according to The Next Web. ...
Read More »Instagram deters deletion with reversible “archive” option
Instagram is rolling out a new feature called “archive” that lets you hide any of your posts from everyone else, but keeps them safe for you to look at in private or restore to visibility, according to TechCrunch. Instagram confirmed ...
Read More »Google AI Wins First Game Against Chinese Go Grandmaster
Ke Jie aimed to beat AlphaGo with its own unusual style of play. But the ploy didn’t quite work as the 19-year-old grandmaster planned. After a four hours and fifteen minutes of play, Ke Jie resigned, and AlphaGo grabbed a ...
Read More »A Teen Created the World’s Lightest Satellite & NASA Is Going to Launch It
Not very many people can claim that they’ve sent something they made into space. One of those who will soon be sending his own invention — a 64-gram (0.14-lb) satellite — into sub-orbital flight is an 18-year-old named Rifath Shaarook. ...
Read More »Mark Zuckerberg’s dad filmed his son’s reaction to getting into Harvard
Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg shared a video taken by his father Edward of when he found out he got into Harvard, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Mashable. In the video above, Edward records a young Mark as he opens the long-awaited ...
Read More »Security researcher says he’s figured out how to decrypt WannaCry
Adrien Guinet says that he was able to decrypt a ransomwared computer running Windows XP in his lab by discovering the prime numbers that make up the WannaCry private key, according to Mashable. The private key is what a ransomware ...
Read More »Toyota is Making a Flying Car to Light the 2020 Olympic Torch
According to Futurism, Toyota is throwing its hat into the flying car ring, backing the “SkyDrive” flying car, the brainchild of a startup called Cartivator. The drone-esque, 2.9 meter (9.5 foot) long SkyDrive vehicle is designed to max out at ...
Read More »Group linked to NSA spy leaks threatens sale of new tech secrets
Using trademark garbled English, the Shadow Brokers group said in an online statement that, from June, it will begin releasing software to anyone willing to pay for access to some of the tech world’s biggest commercial secrets, Joinfo.com reports with ...
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