Category Archives: Tech

An absolute beginner’s guide to machine learning, deep learning, and AI

Meet Samantha. She’s your friendly assistant from 2025. She sorts your mail, sets up your meetings, and orders groceries. She paints and writes poetry. She’s your best friend. She’s also an artificial intelligence from the movie Her, which imagines how a juiced-up Siri will change our lives. Now, tech companies large and small are racing […]

Honor’s new phone won’t show notifications if it doesn’t recognize who is holding it

I don’t read Chinese, but if you do and feel like navigating the Magic’s dedicated page, feel free. Instead, I’m going to rely on Android Authority to translate for me. The phone has a: 5-inch AMOLED screen 12-megapixel dual-lens camera, 8-megapixel front-facing camera Android 6.0 Huawei Kirin 950 processor 2,900mAh battery 64GB internal storage, 4GB […]

Woody Harrelson will shoot his next movie while streaming it live into movie theaters

Woody Harrelson is making a movie inspired by one night he ended up in a London jail. On its face, that’s not a very interesting premise, but lucky for anyone who roots for Woody Harrelson, that’s not all: the film, Lost in London, will be live-streamed in theaters at the same time it’s being shot. […]

Instagram – 600 Million Users and Counting

Today Instagram is proud to announce their community has grown to more than 600 million Instagrammers. And the last 100 million of you joined in just the past six months. A lot has changed this year, but the Instagram community and the diversity of expression it provides has remained consistent. And you now have more […]

Self-Driving Uber running red light – Pretty Scary

Uber just had one of the weirdest days ever Yesterday morning, Uber announced that its self-driving car service was live in San Francisco. However, the launch wasn’t without its share of controversy. Apparently, the 7-year-old company failed to get a permit from the California DMV for “autonomous vehicle testing.” According to Uber, that’s because they don’t […]

New Synthetic Diamond Is Harder Than Nearly All Found in Nature

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 […]