MoviePass MoviePass to reportedly shut down for good this weekend after money finally runs outSYFY WIRE - Josh Weiss MoviePass may end for good this weekend. Its parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, announced today that the once-promising theater ticket …
iPhone From Monsters, Inc. to coconuts, Twitter has some thoughts about the new iPhone with 3 camerasSYFY WIRE - Josh Weiss At a keynote event in Cupertino, California today, Apple unveiled three new iPhones, two of which have three cameras. Ranging in price between $699 …
Choose Your Own Adventure This AI 'choose your own adventure' game literally writes itself as you playSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne Neural networks have already decided what was going to happen in The Winds of Winter, so who’s going to stop them from plunging you into the trippy …
Iceland MS1 Mars simulation suit prototype is closest you can get to Mars on EarthSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne Besides the questions of when we’re going to send astronauts to Mars and if humans can even handle the journey at all, if both those are yeses... …
Amazon Amazon’s project ‘Orville’ might have us buying groceries with a wave of the handSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard We’re not sure why Amazon might’ve chosen “Orville” as its codename for a new hand-recognition system that reportedly aims to have customers buying …
TV Machines that feel? AI bots see ‘animal cruelty’ in YouTube clips of robots fightingSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard Oh, the humanity! In a funny recent case of online algorithms simply carrying out their AI programming — yet looking an awful lot like empaths for …
Tesla Model 3 Tesla owner implants RFID key in her arm, becomes one with the machineSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard Elon Musk is famous for flirting with all kinds of boundaries when it comes to locomotion. Whether you’re talking rockets, boats that can catch …
Robotics More cities roll out the welcome mat for robots, previewing our delivery droid futureSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard The future robot takeover that keeps some of us up at night may still be far on the distant horizon, but we can definitely see the first glimpses …
Robotics People can’t grow tails, so robot designers went ahead and made oneSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard We’d probably be thrown a little off balance if we caught a glimpse of someone walking down the street with a fully-functioning tail — but it's …
Hyperloop Need for speed: India may soon have the world's first fully functional hyperloop trainSYFY WIRE - Josh Weiss Elon Musk's wildest hyperloop dreams may soon be coming true in India, which is officially seeking bids in a multibillion-dollar "public …
Robotics Real-life Voltron? Scientists develop mini robots that combine anime-styleSYFY WIRE - Jacob Oller Little robots that work together to form a bigger, better robot are pop culture standbys. Voltron, Power Rangers' Zords - even if they have pilots …
List-Worthy My to-do list app made me a murdererSYFY WIRE - Laura Dale As someone who is a little bit scatterbrained and often struggles to keep all my plans and ideas organized, I've tried a series of organizational …
Pizza MIT’s new AI could soon be making your next pizzaSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne Since AI was already able to predict who lived or died in Game of Thrones, making a pizza should be nothing for artificial intelligence to handle, …
Solar Panels This sleek, solar-powered concept car features 450 miles of rangeSYFY WIRE - Matthew Jackson Lightyear, a company founded by World Solar Challenge-winning engineering students in 2016, has revealed the prototype for its new solar car — and if …
Research Research links cell phone use to growth of horns (yes horns) in humansSYFY WIRE - Andrea Ayres It's hard to find another piece of technology that has changed our daily life more than the cell phone. It turns out all that being glued to our …
Bluetooth This real-life beer can doubles as a fully-functional video game controllerSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard In a move that’s as much a stroke of ergonomic genius as it is a marketing one, Miller Lite has found a way to jab right at E3 gamers’ hearts with …
Amazon Amazon's transforming delivery drone could be at your door in monthsSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard If Amazon’s goal of introducing drone delivery into its on-demand shopping mix goes according to plan, chances are you’ll one day be spying the …
Luke Skywalker Start a story about Star Wars (or anything else), and this AI bot will finish itSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard In reality, the AI brain behind this OpenAI-based chatbot knows less than we do (we think…we hope) about whether Luke will return as a Force Ghost in …
Aviation Game over, drone haters: FAA predicts commercial use will triple in five yearsSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard Raise a toast to dystopian paranoia: As of today, we're officially giving up on the hope that drones won’t someday be able to follow our every waking …
3D A 3D-printed rocket is actually going to spaceSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne It wasn’t that long ago that our minds were blown by 3D-printed action figures. Now those little knick-knacks are nothing compared to an actual …
iPad Got $100k? Steinway’s iPad-capable piano turns you into a classical mixmasterSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard It’s hard to say which primo brand in this matchup elevates the other more, but a new collaboration between Apple and Steinway is taking a page from …
Near-Infrared Scientists think they've figured out how to give humans infrared vision like The PredatorSYFY WIRE - Elizabeth Rayne Have you ever cosplayed as the Predator? Were you bummed that there wasn’t some intra-mask device that could give you heat vision? Do you just want …
Robotics Super dexterous, A.I.-enabled bionic hand may be the bane of BaymaxSYFY WIRE - Adam Pockross Let’s conduct an experiment, shall we? Look for the closest object you can easily lift with one hand … you see it? Okay, now grab it, pick it up, …
Driving Amazon drops huge chunk of change on self-driving car techSYFY WIRE - James Comtois While we still may be a ways away from the flying car, we may be one step closer to getting our own self-driving car, thanks to Amazon. Aurora, a …
Lego The Winter Soldier ain't got nothing on this student's DIY prosthetic LEGO armSYFY WIRE - Adam Pockross When life gives you lemons, make LEGOs. That seems to be the takeaway from a recent Reuters story profiling 19-year-old David Aguilar, a college …
Star Trek Star Trek replicator finally replicated by real-life scientistsSYFY WIRE - Adam Pockross Star Trek has been prescient about future technology ever since showing off a nascent cell phone in the pilot episode of the original series. But …
Brain-computer interface Telepaths beware: Science is figuring out how to turn thoughts into wordsSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard Where’s the fun in having a super-rare paranormal gift if science is going to come along and show everyone else how it all works? In a breakthrough …
English soccer team hires predictive AI to coach a game. Yes, really.SYFY WIRE - Jacob Oller With high-level mathematics saturating number-driven industries as diverse as video game high scores and Oscar predictions (and does anyone else …
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse's visuals are so unique Sony is literally trying to patent the lookSYFY WIRE - Benjamin Bullard Years of start-from-scratch animation innovation will finally cast its web at the box office this weekend, when Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse …
