This morning at the annual Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft showed off a pretty impressive advancement in its AI tech. An app, entitled Project Adam , is poised to identify all of its surroundings just like a Fire Phone without the merch hooks. The app is still in development but shows promising results. Read more…
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Microsoft’s AI Is On Its Way to Identifying the Whole World
Chromebooks are great if you want a super cheap computer, but they’re not without their limitations; you (basically) have to run everything in a browser. And Microsoft is aiming to give them some competition with full Windows 8 machines around those same, dumb low price points . Read more…
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Watch Out Chromebooks: Super Cheap Windows 8 Machines Are Coming
This video captured on a beach in Novosibirsk, Siberia, looks like a scene from a movie about the end of the world. People were enjoying a perfect sunny day—with temperatures of 99F (37C)—when bullet-sized hail started strafing the beach while everyone were running for their lives in panic. Read more…
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Amazing hail storm on a beach looks like the beginning of the Apocalypse
Yellowstone National Park is riddled with constantly changing geothermal hot spots —it’s part of the reason for the park’s famous geysers. But this past Thursday, the area around one section of road got so hot that asphalt literally started melting. Read more…
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It’s So Hot In Yellowstone That a Road Literally Melted
Dubai has unveiled plans for the world’s first indoor, climate-controlled neighborhood— a 450-hectare city area with a retractable glass roof and the world’s largest shopping center. This sounds to me like the hell on earth but I better get used to it: Every major city will probably be like this by the end of the century. Read more…
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World’s first climate-controlled neighborhood to be built in Dubai
Apple, Trapper Keeper, and Reebok: Three of the most well-known brands of the 1980s, and three companies that used the same futuristic-looking typeface to do it. So why isn’t the typeface a classic like other period pieces *cough*Helvetica*cough*? Fate is a funny thing. Read more…
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Why You’ve Never Heard of This Typeface That Defined the 1980s
Doc Brown himself recently lied to us about the existence of hoverboards. But if you’ve got the cash, an original hoverboard (albeit, still non-hovering) could soon be yours. Read more…
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Original Back to the Future 2 Hoverboard Up For Auction
By now, we know that Game of Thrones uses a heavy VFX hand when it comes to building the world of Westeros but it’s still amazing how real their visual effects can make it look. That’s because pretty much everything is fake. Seriously. Anything far off in the distance or people standing around or flags waving have all been added in digitally. Read more…
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This video shows how pretty much everything in Game of Thrones is fake
Amazon and publishing company Hachette remain in negotiations after a very public brawl over ebook pricing, and Amazon’s pulling out some down and dirty trick to win its battle, including jacking up Hachette book prices . Amazon’s latest gambit is more carrot than stick: Amazon executive David Naggar sent a letter to a number of Hachette authors proposing that they keep 100 percent of their sales while the dispute persists. Read more…
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Amazon Is Baiting Hachette Authors With 100 Percent Profits
Kevin Whitney loved his iPhone. Or at least he loved the countless, priceless family photos stored on it. So when the phone slipped out of his pocket and into 140 tons of grain on his farm in Oklahoma, he was understandably distraught. Luckily, people are nice in Japan . Read more…
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iPhone Lost by Oklahoma Farmer Resurfaces Nine Months Later in Japan