Technology moves us forward. We our traditions keep up? A real diamond has always beat a synthetic. Now that it doesn’t, will we still want the ones that are now inferior? Diamonds are both aesthetically pleasing and functional. Not only can they be used to create stunning jewelry, they can also cut through some of […]
Monthly Archives: December 2016
21 Proven Ways To Overcome Impostor Syndrome
New Surgery Can Give the Legally Blind 20/20 Vision
Meet the Blind Man Who Convinced Google Its Self-Driving Car Is Finally Ready
Bill Gates’s new $1 billion fund will back radical clean energy ideas
Bill Gates has announced a $1 billion investment fund to back radical approaches to clean energy. Last year, Gates established the Breakthrough Energy Coalition with more than 20 billionaires, among them Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Alibaba’s Jack Ma, and Virgin’s Richard Branson. At the time, they promised to invest at least $2 billion into new technologies. […]
7,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund’s Brain
Richard Craib is a 29-year-old South African who runs a hedge fund in San Francisco. Or rather, he doesn’t run it. He leaves that to an artificially intelligent system built by several thousand data scientists whose names he doesn’t know. Under the banner of a startup called Numerai, Craib and his team have built technology […]
Utah is Ground Zero for Clean Oil Sands
Watch NASA launch a rocket full of satellites into orbit from the belly of a plane
Today, NASA will attempt to launch eight small satellites to space on board a Pegasus XL rocket, manufactured by private spaceflight company Orbital ATK. Called the CYGNSS mission, the probes are meant to study various aspects of tropical storms and hurricanes from orbit, in order to help scientists better understand how these cyclones form. But […]
