[ad_1] Inside Uber’s plan to take over city life with CEO Dara KhosrowshahiAndrew J. Hawkins,The Verge This week, ride-sharing giant Uber announced a test that puts both its car and food services in the same app. It’s part of a larger plan CEO Dara Khosrowshahi describes as becoming the “operating system for your everyday life […]
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The best free-to-play games
[ad_1] Apex Legends Although Fortnite is without a doubt the most popular free-to-play battle royale game, that doesn’t mean you won’t have a great time with the rest of the bunch. Apex Legends is the perfect example of that. From the studio that brought you Titanfall, Apex is a 60-player deathmatch with teams consisting of […]
Teaching AI to sing slime mold serenades
[ad_1] The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativityby Arthur I. Miller Most of the time when we hear about AI, they’re taking our jobs or putting us in jail or inflicting some other autonomic horror upon humans. But there’s a second side to that AI coin. One in which machine learning algorithms […]
Tech that helped me fall back in love with birdwatching
[ad_1] Binoculars I didn’t have a set of binoculars when I was a kid; no wonder I was so bad at birding. You’re going to need a pair, as most birds have this pesky habit of living in tall trees. In most situations a 8x42mm or 10x42mm set like those from Carson will do nicely, […]
The Morning After: SpaceX builds a Starship
[ad_1] It cycles through 90 different options, all at random.Autoblow AI is a sex toy that promises ‘surprise’ The phrase “artificial intelligence” conjures all sorts of ideas about a synthetic consciousness that knows us better than we know ourselves. But it’s more often hollowly used as a buzzword, providing a little excitement to systems that […]
Apple’s 7th-gen iPad gets bigger but keeps the same size battery
[ad_1] In case you forgot, the iPhone 11 and Apple Watch weren’t the only new hardware Apple showed off at its big event a couple of weeks ago, it also upgraded the base iPad line. Now in its seventh generation, the “most popular” iPad that Apple sells has grown from 9.7- to 10.2-inches, ships with […]
The Disney+ Obi Wan Kenobi series has a director: Deborah Chow
[ad_1] Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy said in a statement: “We really wanted to select a director who is able to explore both the quiet determination and rich mystique of Obi-Wan in a way that folds seamlessly into the Star Wars saga. Based on her phenomenal work developing our characters in The Mandalorian, I’m absolutely confident […]
SpaceX’s Starship halves comes together ahead of a big event
[ad_1] Ten days after we got a peek at the construction of SpaceX’s first Starship in Texas, CEO Elon Musk tweeted out a picture of the craft’s two halves coming together. It’s a timely post, as Musk is planning a press conference Saturday evening with updates on the company’s programs, including its Starships. Last year […]
Ridley Scott’s ‘Alien’ returns to theaters in October
[ad_1] Alien was the perfect blend of science fiction and horror. Not only was the 1979 film a visual masterpiece, but it was also infused with sub-surface meaning, exploring themes from corporate exploitation to Freudian birth trauma. 40 years later, it still stands as one of the best sci-fi films ever made. Tickets are available […]
The final season of ‘BoJack Horseman’ starts October 25th
[ad_1] Netflix hasn’t said why the series is ending now, although it has been winding down shows left and right in recent months. Orange is the New Black wrapped up this July after seven seasons, for instance, while GLOW will end with its fourth season. Although viewership can play a role in cancellations, there are […]