Monthly Archives: January 2017
The Official Title for Star Wars: Episode VIII Revealed | StarWars.com
Glorious New NASA Video Imagines a Landing on Pluto
Using 100 images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft over the course of six weeks, NASA has produced a colorized video showing what it would be like to approach and land on Pluto. Prepare yourself for a marvelous trip. To create the video, NASA scientists had to deduce Pluto’s actual colors from the many black-and-white […]
What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it’s fame and money, you’re not alone -but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you’re mistaken. As the director of 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three […]
How this young, and not wealthy, guy bought a Lamborghini
He financed it! Like most supercar owners do. With interest rates so low, many feel the small carrying cost is marginal compared to the fun their car brings them. He paid $108,000 and his interest rate was 2.9%. The money he makes from his Youtube videos more than cover the cost of the car. So […]
Is Facebook Still The Best Social Media Platform For Business?
Facebook has over one billion users so people are allured by the sheer size of the audience. But in reality, there are 325 million people in the US, 75% speak English, and even a smaller amount would be potential customers for you and your business. Since 2006 when it launched to the public (originally for […]
Doppler Labs wants to put two extra brains in your ears
This Startup Wants to Be the Netflix of Radio Using Amazon Alexa
Mark Zuckerberg is suing hundreds of Hawaiians to protect his 700-acre Kauai estate
Mark Zuckerberg paid close to $100 million for 700 acres of beachfront property on the island of Kauai in 2014. Now the Facebook billionaire is suing a few hundred Hawaiians who still have legal-ownership claims to parts of his vacation estate through their ancestors, as first reported by the Honolulu Star Advertiser. Three holding companies […]
Google’s AI software is learning to make AI software
Progress in artificial intelligence causes some people to worry that software will take jobs such as driving trucks away from humans. Now leading researchers are finding that they can make software that can learn to do one of the trickiest parts of their own jobs—the task of designing machine-learning software. In one experiment, researchers at […]