By Sarah Zhang
Washington, DC may not really have been …
It’s only a matter of time before things go the way of Skynet, and this new algorithm is a stepping stone along the way: it can learn to identify objects all by itself, with zero human help. Gulp.
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By Casey Chan on Sploid, shared by Casey Chan to Gizmodo
I’m one of those horrible humans who take nature for granted and recharge myself through indoor fluorescent lighting. I like walking city streets, I like going into city bars and I like eating city food. Feeling tires screech, hearing sirens wail, coming across unexplainable damp spots, that’s all what I’m used to. But then I get a little taste of nature (through a Vimeo video on a computer indoors, no less) and wonder if I’m missing out on a whole magical part of the world. I probably am. You might be too.
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You thought you’d heard the last of Scott Forstall when he was …
By Jesus Diaz on Sploid, shared by Brian Barrett to Gizmodo
You don’t need to travel into a …
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They’ve been a mainstay of the hyper-paranoid for decades—at least when it comes to comic depictions. But now, the classic, beloved tin foil hat has left the world of hyperbole to become an actual, honest-to-god mind-reading-deflection machine. And it looks fancy, to boot.
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For some reason mankind has been happy to settle for elastic rubber bands that only exist in two dimensions. So far they’ve served us mostly ok, but the talented designers at …