How could the city of the future look? eVolo Magazine has been trying to find that out by hosting a Skyscraper Competition each year since 2006. The competition awards visionaries who try to design what could be the vertical architecture of the future with progressive ideas about technology, materials, programs and more involved. This year …
The internet sure knows how to ruin something, and quick. But it did teach us a quick, somewhat hilarious, horrible lesson: never raise anyone by the internet. This is the lesson Microsoft learned when they introduced TayTweets to the world, an artificial intelligence chatbot who learned by conversing. She was meant to learn how to talk …
If you haven’t heard about it, the mirror test is one of the top ways humans have been able to test animals for self-awareness. The most recent addition to these ranks is the manta ray, an animal that has recently been observed recognizing itself in its reflection. But where some are meeting the news with …
Ever ask Siri a question and she’s unable to answer it correctly? Ever ask Cortana a question and she’s baffled or confused? Ironically, artificial intelligence isn’t quite smart enough to do everything humans want them to do. But Doug Lenat believes he has the answer to this problem with a thirty year old artificial-intelligence engine …
We recently talked about virtual reality with the way we do business, and virtual reality in general has been the talk of the proverbial digital town with the upcoming release of Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR and other VR devices. But one thing that’s been getting ignored is augmented reality, the current and more ubiquitous form …
Virtual reality–or VR–is quickly becoming more and more common each day. Most news outlets report on its use in video games or movie watching, but some developers are using it for loftier goals. Like a little organization you may have heard of called NASA. Teaming up with Microsoft and Microsoft’s virtual reality device “HoloLens,” NASA’s …
Samsung Electronics has announced progress in flash memory that could change the phone industry forever. The company recently put out a press release detailing what they’re saying is the industry first 256-gigabyte embedded memory, a phone that can outperform PCs in certain ways. Samsung said: Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced …
Everyone’s been excited by the return of NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, who’s returned from space after 340 days in space on the International Space Station. What they may not know is that Kelly has been a part of NASA’s twin study, which has used Scott Kelly and his identical twin brother Mark Kelly as subjects. …
There’s no denying it: the government has been hacked far more times than we’d like. But now the Pentagon has worked on the security of several key networks, and have challenged hackers to take them on. You may thinking “hackers have probably already been attempting this. They do what they want when they want.” But …
According to Mayo Clinic director Dr. Konstantinos Lazaridis, there are several million patients in the U.S. alone who are suffering from a rare or undiagnosed disease. He headed a Mayo Clinic study where patients were shown to have been on a “diagnostic odyssey” of seeing multiple healthcare providers without ever receiving a diagnosis. This needs …