Uber Wants To Make Drivers’ Jobs Easier With”Compliments’

Starting today, when you give your Uber driver a five-star rating, your app will ask you to provide them a little extra feedback. It’s not mandatory, but if you choose, you can give them a sticker that says something like “Awesome DJ!” or “Great car!” or “Above and beyond!” Or you can tap a prompt […]

‘Nanobionic’ spinach plants detect explosives, pollution, drought | KurzweilAI

By embedding spinach leaves with carbon nanotubes, MIT engineers have transformed spinach plants into sensors that can detect explosives and wirelessly relay that information to a handheld device similar to a smartphone. (credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT) MIT engineers have implanted spinach leaves with carbon nanotubes, resulting in a hybrid electronic system that they call “plant nanobionics” […]

128 Things that will disappear in the driverless car era

There’s a significant difference between a driverless car and a fully autonomous vehicle. We already have a number of vehicles on the road today with driverless features, but that’s only a small step towards the no-steering-wheel type of driverless car many are imagining. As we move further into the fully autonomous car era, we also […]

Slack Welcomes Microsoft to Messaging With Full-Page Letter That Echoes Apple’s Famous ‘Seriously’ Ad

 By Kristina Monllos November 2, 2016, 11:15 AM EDT Advertising & Branding Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield boasted about the ad on Twitter. Twitter: @stewart Slack founders are taking marketing lessons from Steve Jobs. The workplace communication company took out a full-page ad in today’s New York Times, ahead of Microsoft’s Office event which […]

Consumers Interested in Self-Learning Navigation for the Car

BOSTON, Nov. 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Despite concerns about privacy, consumers are interested in systems which learn driving behavior and provide help with navigation.  This is according to a recent survey from the In-Vehicle UX (IVX) group at Strategy Analytics  According to the report (“Consumers Show Robust Interest in Self-Learning Navigation”), consumer interest is strong for systems which learn […]

This Is Your Brain on Quantum Computers

Machines enrich and enhance our lives, whether it’s the smartphones that allow us to stay connected or the supercomputers that solve our toughest computational problems. Imagine how much more productive and innovative our world will be when computers become infinitely more powerful. Indeed, the growing field of quantum computing may make our current technological capacities […]

Nobel Goes to Worlds Tiniest Machines

“This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry is about the world’s smallest machines,” said Goran Hansson, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences which conferred the award. The French, Scottish and Dutch scientists had developed molecules with controllable movements that can perform tasks when energy is added, the Academy said in a statement awarding […]

Introducing Spectacles from Snap (fka Snapchat)

When the $130 Specs are released this fall, you might have to stick to barbecues and day-time music festivals when you want to tap the rim of your glasses to record 10 seconds of circular, first-person video. Perhaps future iterations could come with clear lenses or photochromatic light-adaptive lenses that are dark in the sun […]

Yep, Disney is in talks with bankers about possible Twitter acquisition

Disney has had talks about a potential acquisition of Twitter, we’ve confirmed. They’re working with bankers now to determine whether the deal makes sense, multiple sources have informed us. While some reports have suggested that Twitter could fetch $30 billion, we are hearing that the price tag is much lower. Twitter stock is currently trending […]

Meet The Knife Sharpener To End All Knife Sharpeners

YouTuber Wranglerstar purchased himself a knife sharpening system. Initially, it seems a little needlessly complex, but when you see how beautifully sharp he is able to get his knives, it will make you consider ordering a strange green box from Russia. This article originally appeared at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SbEWFSA8s