At least that’s what this robot makes me believe. In autonomous mode it can cook and serve shrimp, call and take an elevator, and store a large pot in a two-door cabinet. With a teleoperator, it can do laundry, vacuum, water plants, load an unload a dishwasher and…
The story is about the startup accelerator TechStars shutting down its Austin program after the person who was running it stepped down. The implication that extrapolates to the city is funny. This paragraph is excellent fodder for eyerolling: “One venture investor who wished to remain anonymous recently made…
“The limited-edition pastry, a collab between Daisies and The Wieners Circle, launched Tuesday after a series of video teasers starring Daisies’ pastry chef and some famously foul-mouthed Wieners Circle staffers.” ~ learn more
There are 10 countries, mostly in central Africa, that still have a literacy rate below 50%. Chad ranks the lowest at 27%. The female literacy rate in Chad is even worse at 18.2%. But on the bright side, remember that a hundred years ago the global picture was…
You might remember VERTU, the first luxury phone brand. “Vertu is the brainchild of the Italian Frank Nuovo, former chief designer at Nokia. He proposed and presented the luxury concept to Nokia's board, who eventually accepted it in late 1998.” The technology was not special, but the prices…
“Advances in AI and satellite imagery allowed researchers to create the clearest picture yet of human activity at sea, revealing clandestine fishing activity and a boom in offshore energy development.” ~ learn more
“For the second half of the 19th century, the Western world pretty much ran on a game-changing, nation-making, super-powerful substance—bird poop. At first glance (or, fine, maybe second), guano is an ideal fertilizer. Made almost entirely of nitrogen, phosphate and potassium, it’s basically a splat of straight-up energy…
Most cells in the body only live for about a year. Skin cells are on this schedule. “Therefore, skin cells should divide and dead cells be cleared out in under a year, not the decades that tattoos would suggest.” So what’s happening here? Read on for the answer. ~ learn…
Type in any phrase and get a compilation video of that exact phrase across a library of movies. Do you feel lucky? ~ learn more
If you remember this car, you probably remember how unattractive it was… “a car so ham-fisted in its execution it became a metaphor for the clownshow that was pre-bankruptcy GM.” Professional car designer and writer Adrian Clarke tells the story in detail: “The Aztek’s problems arose from the…