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Head to the Robogames Next Weekend to Greet Your New Overlords

Do you like to watch expertly designed robots smash and grind each other to bits? What about watching them compete to solve mazes, or win a game of soccer? If you’re a normal person and said yes to all these questions, then you need to be at Robogames — and it’s coming up next weekend.…

Tech News Annalee Newitz

Ford Introduces Cars That Can Recognize and Obey Speed Limit Signs

Before autonomous smart cars hit the roads, we’re going to be seeing regular cars upgraded with the smarter technologies that will eventually make self-driving vehicles possible. In the UK Ford is introducing what it calls Intelligent Speed Limiter technology on its new S-MAX that enhances the vehicle’s cruise control capabilities with cameras that are able…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Hot Toy’s Age Of Ultron Hawkeye Has Your Wallet In His Sights

He might be one of the last in the main Avengers team in Hot Toys’ exquisite line of Age of Ultron figures, but that’s certainly no indication of lesser quality — the rest of the Avengers have already conducted a financial haymaker on your Wallet, and Mr. Barton is just here to fire the killing…

Tech News James Whitbrook

A Folding Smartphone, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Origami smartphones? Paying bills via Gmail? The first full Cyanogen smartphone? Yesterday was full of news and rumors you might have missed, that’s why we put them all here in BitStream. Samsung loves making bold claims and equally bold products. For 2014/15, the company wondered if they could make Edge displays something people would actually…

Tech News Darren Orf

Why Anti-Vaxxers Just ‘Know’ They’re Right

Anti-vaccination beliefs can cause real, substantive harm, as shown by the recent outbreak of measles in the US. These developments are as shocking and distressing as their consequences are predictable. But if the consequences are so predictable, why do the beliefs persist? It is not simply that anti-vaxxers don’t understand how vaccines work (some of…

Tech News Thom Scott-Phillips - The Conversation

Video: The crazy inventions of a genius mind

Dominic Wilcox is a British artist, inventor, and designer who makes witty and beautiful objects that challenge our notion of normal and how we see the world around us. This short documentary—directed by Liam Saint-Pierre—shows how his creative process works: Check out his blog to see more of his clever inventions and ideas. SPLOID is…

Sploid Omar Kardoudi

This Jet Engine Will Take a Car to 1,000MPH

This week, engineers working on the Bloodhound Supersonic Car installed its EJ200 jet engine into the chassis for the first time. Good news: it fits. Bad news: they now have to install kilometers of cabling into the small gaps that are left. [Bloodhound Project]

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

New Super-Fast 3D Printer Builds Inch-Deep Objects in 6 Minutes

Last week, Carbon3D announced a 3D printing system that’s 25 times faster than traditional 3D printers. Now, a company called Gizmo 3D has revealed that it’s developing a system that can also achieve incredible speeds. The new system utilizes an existing technique called Direct Light Processing, which uses light to fuse liquid resin into a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A New Bill Could Help Companies Share Cybersecurity Threat Information

The House of Representatives Intelligence Committee yesterday introduced a new bill that would allow businesses to share knowledge of digital security threats with the government without fears of legal of action. Reuters reports that the new bill, known as the Protecting Cyber Networks Act, “has significant bipartisan support.” Indeed, it claims that it has strong…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

These Sidewalk Games Only Appear When It Rains

NeverWet is a water-repellent spray that can basically keep anything dry. It’s cool, if not the most practical thing in the world. But apply it to a sidewalk, let it rain, and magical things start to happen. https://gizmodo.com/neverwet-review-the-magical-water-repelling-spray-is-812797429 The project is the work of Seattle-based artist Peregrine Church, whose (entirely laudable) mission was to “make…

Tech News Chris Mills

Taylor Swift Put All Her Music On Jay-Z’s Pet Streaming Service

Taylor Swift, part-time pop star and full-time crusader for the rights of impoverished pop artists, made headlines last year when she yanked her music off Spotify. Well, streaming Swift is back — on a service you’ve probably never heard of. Tidal was a tiny Norwegian streaming service that basically no-one had heard of, until Jay-Z…

Tech News Chris Mills

See How Fast Your State’s Broadband Is With This Interactive Map

When we last checked in on the State Of The Internet in these United States, things weren’t looking so pretty: the average speed was a painful 4.8Mbps, well below the global average. Well, according to this neat graph, things are looking up. Net Index is a comprehensive breakdown of the data gathered by Speedtest.net, the…

Tech News Chris Mills

Facebook and Google Are Locking In African Customers With Freebie Deals

Facebook and Google have grand plans to bring the internet to developing nations, paying Lisa Rinna-sized lip service to altruistic visions of global connectivity. But let’s always remember that these US tech giants are also gunning for new customers and the lucrative data that comes with them. Both companies are rolling out programs in some…

Tech News Kate Knibbs

The Secret Color-Coded Language of Graffiti Abatement

More than anything else in our cities, graffiti and its removal creates a dynamic, ongoing visual conversation that plays out across pretty much every urban surface. Over at Medium’s Re:Form, Ian Besler investigates the process with Los Angeles’s graffiti abatement program, which removed one square mile of graffiti from LA’s streets in 2014. Besler visits…

Tech News Alissa Walker

RadioShack Selling Customer Data In Bankruptcy Auction

RadioShack’s recent bankruptcy filing means that it has to close nearly 2,000 stores and sell off many of its assets. Some of those assets are to be expected, like trademarks and store leases. But other assets might come as a shock to consumers — assets like personal customer information and email addresses. As Bloomberg reports,…

Tech News Matt Novak

How Did You Prepare For Y2K?

We live in a world obsessed with the threat of terrorism. But fifteen years ago, the media was in constant hysterics over Y2K, or “the Millennium bug.” A real coding error that required many a fix, Y2K also provoked outsize paranoia and survivalist tactics that anticipated the end of the world. What were you up…

Tech News Kaila Hale-Stern

This Lost Map Changed How We Saw the World

In 1815 William Smith drew a map of the United Kingdom which transformed the scientific landscape: It laid the foundations for modern geology, and identified natural resources which would beget the Industrial Revolution. But up until last year, this first-edition copy was considered to be lost forever. As a geologist in London in the early…

Tech News Alissa Walker

NECA Is Turning The “Big Chap” Alien Into An Amazing, Gigantic Figure

Like seriously, they’re living up to the Big Chap name on this one. It’s massive, and it looks gorgeous! This whopping new ‘Deluxe’ edition of the titular xenomorph from the first film in the Alien franchise is over 22 inches tall. Check out the prototype model in all its glory below: Take it away, Mr.…

Tech News James Whitbrook

A VW Beetle Toiletries Case For Hippies Who Prefer Staying Clean

The Volkswagen Beetle isn’t quite the same symbol of freedom today that it was back in the ’60s, but that doesn’t mean its iconic design—and the ideals it symbolized—has been forgotten. So the next time you’re restless and feeling the need to just get up and travel, bring this VW Beetle toiletries case along because…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

What It’s Like To Adopt An Older Dog

A couple months ago, Lara and I adopted an 8-year old Cocker Spaniel and named him Rufio. Can an older dog really involve less effort and energy than a puppy? And can one integrate as fully into an active family? This is our experience. Both of us grew up with dogs and have always loved…

Tech News Wes Siler

Head to the Robogames Next Weekend to Greet Your New Overlords

Ford Introduces Cars That Can Recognize and Obey Speed Limit Signs

Hot Toy’s Age Of Ultron Hawkeye Has Your Wallet In His Sights

A Folding Smartphone, and Everything Else You Missed Yesterday

Why Anti-Vaxxers Just ‘Know’ They’re Right

Video: The crazy inventions of a genius mind

This Jet Engine Will Take a Car to 1,000MPH

New Super-Fast 3D Printer Builds Inch-Deep Objects in 6 Minutes

A New Bill Could Help Companies Share Cybersecurity Threat Information

These Sidewalk Games Only Appear When It Rains

Taylor Swift Put All Her Music On Jay-Z’s Pet Streaming Service

See How Fast Your State’s Broadband Is With This Interactive Map

Facebook and Google Are Locking In African Customers With Freebie Deals

The Secret Color-Coded Language of Graffiti Abatement

RadioShack Selling Customer Data In Bankruptcy Auction

How Did You Prepare For Y2K?

This Lost Map Changed How We Saw the World

NECA Is Turning The “Big Chap” Alien Into An Amazing, Gigantic Figure

A VW Beetle Toiletries Case For Hippies Who Prefer Staying Clean

What It’s Like To Adopt An Older Dog

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