Has it been 11 years? For the past 11 years we’ve provided you with the hottest, trend-busting, and thoughtful gifts for Christmas. This year is no different, and we’re delivering the gift guide in two installments this year. This year, we’re lending a hand to the men and women small business owners who provide economic...
Wood paneling may conjure images of 70s and 80s era couches covered in plastic, but it’s the latest material being tested for Earth orbiting satellites. The satellite was built by Japanese researchers at Kyoto University and blasted to the International Space Station on a SpaceX flight. Researcher’s named the 900g cubesat, LignoSat. Named after the...
On Wednesday, Meta Facebook held its third quarter earnings call and dropped this gem: [Meta is] working with the public sector to adopt Llama across the US government Mark Zuckerberg So far, Meta is claiming they’re partnering with the US State Department to explore how their large language model, Llama, could be used to bring...
Technology is the equalizer. Technology’s constant march of progress brings us a stream of new products and improvements on ways of doing business. We often think the latest and greatest technologies are drop in replacements obsoleting what’s come before. We get a new iPhone, and sell or giveaway our old one. We ditch over-the-air TV...
Thanks to climate change weather is getting harder to predict, and weather events are getting more severe. Most folks, myself included, simply look outside to find out what the weather’s going to be. But what do you do if you want to prep for a weather event? Just in time for Hurricane Helene we present...
Just in time for the long, Labor Day weekend, Tetris Forever come to PC and Nintendo Switch. Tetris Forever is a docu-game. Part documentary, part game, an hour of footage detailing the history of Tetris from the original Electronika 60 console to present day will accompany 15 different versions of the people’s favorite. Most GenXers...
“Pharma bro” and disgraced Wu-Tang fan, Martin Shkreli was slapped with a federal preliminary injunction on August 24, 2024 to halt taunting the real owners of Wu-Tang’s singular album, “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” and distributing bootleg copies of the album he once owned. Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nothing to F**k With Once Upon a...
Researchers from Google AI and Tel Aviv University announced a new product that renders video game graphics in realtime. GameNGen is a new AI model using techniques from Stable Diffusion to render the 1993 classic DOOM. Many video games are rendered using traditional animation techniques. Graphical art representing cuts in motion is animated at 60...
Robots have been a main stay in US car manufacturing since the 70s. BMW has upped the ante by being the first automaker to bring bipedal, humanoid robots on the manufacturing floor. BMW has employed Figure 02, a robot with arms, and hands that work in 16 directions with equivalent human strength alongside human workers....
On Monday, US judge, Amit Mehta, ruled Google has a monopoly in the search marketplace. Smart money commentators noticed Judge Mehta referenced Microsoft which is the most famous antitrust case in history. The Microsoft case became must see TV with PC manufacturing CEOs coming out to testify on behalf of Microsoft. The US government sued...