The Minecraft team had a bunch of news at their MineCon Earth convention, but the biggest news may be what’s not happening. Mojang and Microsoft have delayed the launches of both the Super Duper Graphics Pack and cross-platform Switch multiplayer to…
The National Chicken Council says speeding up processing won’t hurt birds. Others disagree.
NASA and NOAA know that multi-day weather forecasts can be crucial to tracking hurricanes and their aftermath, and they’re about to significantly boost the reliability of those forecasts. They just launched JPSS-1 (Joint Polar Satellite System-1), t…
Dunham had previously said rape is something “women don’t lie about.”
A new report provides more evidence of the racism in the criminal justice system.
Get your super suit ready. (But leave the cape at home.)
The sale of kids’ smartwatches have just been banned in Germany, as the country’s telecommunications regulator has labelled them as essentially “spying devices.” While the wearables, designed for kids aged 5 to 12, often look like toys, they’re designed to allow parents to remotely listen in on the child’s environment via the watches’ microphone, all without notice, in turn offering … Continue reading
Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence
Mark Harris,
Wired
You may know Anthony Levandowski from being at the center of Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber, but he’s also the “Dean” or leader of a new religion of artificial intelligence. Wired…
As a console/handheld hybrid, the Nintendo Switch is definitely lacking in terms of hardware power when compared to the PS4 and Xbox One. However, that didn’t stop Nintendo from giving the system the ability to record gameplay footage with a software update that was released last month. Unfortunately it seems support for the feature is on a game-by-game basis, as … Continue reading
Tesla dropped an electric semi truck and a new Roadster at a recent event, but it apparently launched another product that didn’t get any stage time. The automaker has released, of all things, an external battery pack (the Powerbank) with USB, microU…
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