Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s “Epic Rap Battle,” Explained
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Epic Rap Battles of History, the YouTube channel famous for pitting historical figures against each other in fictionalized rap battles, returned…
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People Are Refusing to Use Self-Checkout Because It’ll “Kill Jobs”
Fighting The Tide
A new story by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation looks at a group of people who are fighting the future: shoppers who refuse to use…
Waymo’s Self-Driving Taxi Service Signals Rough Roads Ahead for AVs
Cold Start
Self-driving vehicle company Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project, has been making steady progress with its vehicles for months.…
Rich People are Protecting Their Homes With Surveillance Drones
Pollen Jockeys
The bougie homes of the future may find themselves guarded by high-tech, defensive Sunflowers and Bees.Those are the brand names of…
At DFW Airport, your face could someday replace your boarding pass
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On a recent weekday morning, hundreds of passengers lined up at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport to board Japan…
People With Paralysis Control the Robot Waiters at This Cafe
People with paralysis are finding their way back into the workforce — thanks to a four-foot-tall robot.On November 26, a pop-up cafe unlike any other…
California Now Requires Solar Panels on All New Homes
Going Solar It’s official: any new homes built in California after 2020 will have to be at least partially solar powered. The California Building Standards…
New traffic rules in ‘Graphene City’
In the drive to find new ways to extend electronics beyond the use of silicon, physicists are experimenting with other properties of electrons, beyond…
Looking past the hype about trackless trams
CRRC’s version of the optically guided bus, now operating in Zhuzhou, is more like light rail than its predecessors. Credit: CRRCThe optically guided bus is…