How Bernie Sanders Became The Greatest Online Fundraiser In Political History

The operatives who turned a septuagenarian independent socialist into a money-raising juggernaut share how they did it.

How A Georgia Town Thwarted A Plan To Dump Tons Of Toxic Coal Ash

When news spread that Republic Services planned to dump toxic coal ash in their landfill, citizens fought back.

Superstitious Woman Throws Coins Into Airplane's Engine For Good Luck

But she ended up delaying the flight for several hours.

Protesters Interrupt Rick Perry’s Speech At Energy Conference

“You are a climate denier!”

John McEnroe Just Made Things Worse

He cannot be serious.

‘Big Bang Theory’ Star’s Home Burns Down In California Wildfire

Johnny Galecki was not there at the time.

Yahoo Mail gets a paint job, Pro version, still has users

Believe it or not, there are still Yahoo Mail users, much to the amusement as well as consternation of many Internet users. Never mind the perception of being uncool, Yahoo has repeatedly proven itself rather inept at safeguarding its own users. In typical Yahoo fashion of turning a blind eye to issues, the soon to be acquired company has proudly … Continue reading

Make a collaborative drawing with Google’s neural network

Last April, Google’s machine learning crew revealed AutoDraw, a fun little demo of all that neural network theory. In a nutshell, the web app tries to guess what your scribble looks like and identify it. Now Google’s researchers are taking that idea one step further. Called Sketch-RNN, this “recurrent neural network” model does for doodles and drawing that autocomplete does … Continue reading

The Morning After: Wednesday, June 28th 2017

Welcome to your humpday. Amazon is offering cheaper smartphones (with a caveat) and we explain how electric is going to kill the gas station. Oh, and Google got slammed with a $2.7 billion fine in Europe.

Vivo beats Apple to an under-display fingerprint scanner

There have been rumours of Apple exploring under-display fingerprint scanning technology, but you probably didn’t expect the first of such demos to come from China. At MWC Shanghai, Qualcomm announced its latest ultrasonic fingerprint solution, with…