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Technology
Why we can’t quit the QWERTY keyboard
MIT Technology Review - by Rachel Metz
We’ve been using it to type for 144 years. Here’s why it works, and what it would take for us to give it up. Tap is a one-handed gadget that fits over …
Mental Health
Student Mental Health: What's Going on at Stanford?
thriveglobal.com - Abe Thompson
In the wake of a shocking lawsuit against the school, one student reporter investigates how the prestigious university is reacting, and what it’s …
Augmented Reality
Magic Leap Unveils Human-Like AI Mica Viewable Through Augmented Reality Glasses
The Inquisitr - Rhodilee Jean Dolor
Augmented-reality startup Magic Leap unveiled its new AI during a conference on Wednesday, Oct. 10. Dubbed Mica, the virtual assistant can be seen …
Genetics
The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it's too late
Wired UK - Matt Reynolds
During the summer of 1989, Randy Ploetz was in his laboratory just south of Miami, when he received a package from Taiwan. Ploetz, who had earned his …
The Future
Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot now does parkour
CNET - by Caitlin Petrakovitz
In yet another move to replace humans, Boston Dynamics has introduced its Atlas robot to parkour. The Atlas is the same robot that can run to hunt down humans, do backflips over our cold dead bodies, now
Drawing
How to start drawing
Quartz - Anne Quito
Today is a good day to start drawing. If you are, like most adults, insecure about your artistic skills, take heart. Drawing isn’t just about making art, but rather “a tool for learning above all else,”
Particles
The Universe Has A Speed Limit, And It Isn't The Speed Of Light
Forbes - Ethan Siegel
When it comes to speed limits, the ultimate one set by the laws of physics themselves is the speed of light. As Albert Einstein first realized, everyone looking at a light ray sees that it appears to at
Film Photography
Dear Kodak: Please Let Smaller Shops Help Film Come Back
petapixel.com - Ryan McCarrel
If you’re a film enthusiast, you probably love watching Kodak make a comeback. When Kodak filed for bankruptcy back in 2012, it seemed like the end …
Los Angeles
Hyperloop company unveils its full-scale 750-mph 'passenger capsule'
USA TODAY - Chris Woodyard
LOS ANGELES – If you think of it as a train, it's really short and really fast. But it's not. It's a "passenger capsule," just revealed by one of the companies vying to create what has become known as
Banksy
Banksy piece immediately shreds itself after being sold for $1.1M
TechCrunch - Greg Kumparak
In what might be the most ridiculous stunt ever pulled in the art world, a Banksy piece has, in a sense, self-destructed. Right in front of an audience of would-be buyers. A framed canvas version of Banksy’s
Quantum Computing
It’s Time You Learned About Quantum Computing
WIRED - Wired
You’ve probably heard of quantum computing. Do you understand it? Unlikely! It’s time that you did. The basic idea—tap into quantum physics to make …
James P. Allison
Better biofuels and quantum biology: Here’s who won the 2018 Nobel Prizes in Science and why
Digital Trends - Dyllan Furness
Love them or hate them, the Nobel Prizes in Science remain some of the highest accolades in the world. Awarded almost annually by the Nobel …
Opinion
Russian hackers were caught in the act — and the results are devastating
The Washington Post - By Anne Applebaum
Dutch authorities have photographs of four Russian military intelligence (GRU) operatives arriving at the Amsterdam airport last April, escorted by a member of the Russian embassy. They have copies of
Latino News
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Bloomberg
In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of …
The Future
Scientists create a new font designed to boost your memory
CNET - by Jackson Ryan
During my early years at university, I was a terrible student. Disinterested, tired. Forgetful. It would have been handy to have a font specifically designed to help me alleviate the most pressing of issues
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Gets Good At Creating Anime Girls
Kotaku - Brian Ashcraft
The types of anime-style characters artificial intelligence was making in 2015 weren’t good. But now in 2018, the machines have improved. A lot. As …
Quantum Mechanics
Is It Time to Get Rid of Time? - Issue 64: The Unseen
nautil.us - Marcia Bartusiak
Poets often think of time as a river, a free-flowing stream that carries us from the radiant morning of birth to the golden twilight of old age. It …
George Clooney
Scientists Just Made Human Egg Cells from Human Blood for the First Time
VICE - Daniel Oberhaus
It’s the first step toward being able to mass produce human eggs using other people’s body tissues or blood. Scientists in Japan have used human blood to successfully create immature human egg cells in
Asteroids
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 mission lands on the surface of a distant asteroid
TechCrunch - Devin Coldewey
The coolest mission you haven’t heard of just hit a major milestone: the Japanese Hayabusa 2 probe has reached its destination, the asteroid Ryugu, and just deployed a pair of landers to its surface. it
Public Speaking
The newest public-speaking world champion beat 30,000 other competitors by using a body-language trick she learned from past
Business Insider - Mark Abadi
• Ramona Smith, a high-school teacher from Houston, won the Toastmasters World Championship of Public Speaking in Chicago last month. • In her winning speech, Smith used a body-language technique she from
Linux Kernel
After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside
The New Yorker - Noam Cohen
The e-mails of the celebrated programmer Linus Torvalds land like thunderbolts from on high onto public lists, full of invective, insults, and demeaning language. “Please just kill yourself now. The world
Why Science Fiction Is the Most Important Genre
WIRED - Geek's Guide to the Galaxy
Author: Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. Geek's Guide to the Galaxy Culture Date of Publication: 09.08.18. Time of Publication: 8:50 am. 8:50 am Yuval Noah …
Award-winning robot travels through water pipes to detect leaks
Digital Trends - Luke Dormehl
It sounds unbelievable, but each day around 20 percent of clean water produced in the world is lost as the result of leaky pipes. According to the …
UI Animation: 30 Creative Concepts of Animated Icons
icons8.com
Motion isn’t just a piece of entertainment in user interfaces. Used wisely, UI animation can strengthen usability and navigability of the layout, …
New tool turns Google into a colour-picker
creativebloq.com - Ruth Hamilton
Colour tools are many and varied, but we've never seen anything like this before. Picular is a new online tool that gets its data from Google Images, …
This AI Fakes Footage To Make It Look Like You Have Bruno Mars' Dance Moves
gizmodo.com.au - Andrew Liszewski
By now we have a lot of worrying examples of how AI-powered image processing software can flawlessly alter faces, or make someone appear to say …
Opinion
Spaghetti mystery that stumped famous physicist is finally solved
CNN - By Don Lincoln
(CNN) — Richard P. Feynman was one of the brightest minds of the 20th century. He was a key player in inventing quantum electrodynamics, which describes the behavior of light and matter. He invented what
Business Strategy
This Is the Most Amazing Photo Ever Taken From a Commercial Airplane. Now, a Southwest Passenger Explains How He Did It
Inc Magazine - By Bill Murphy Jr.
Remember the Great American Eclipse of 2017? For a few minutes, it seemed the entire country was relaxed and focused on the same thing. Jon Carmichael was focused all right. But he wasn't exactly relaxed.
This Guy Flipped an Element in an Old Lens and Got ‘Magic’ Bokeh
petapixel.com - Michael Zhang
Iranian photographer Alireza Rostami has been studying and tinkering with lenses for years, and a few years ago he made a discovery: by reversing one …