World Mental Health Day 2018: Men are less likely than women to discuss mental health issues and far more likely to attempt suicide. Can mobile apps help men save their own lives?
At the World Pokemon Festival, a Pikachu dancer physically (and probably emotionally) deflates in front of a live audience.
At Facebook’s annual developer conference, F8, on Wednesday, the group unveiled what may be Facebook’s most ambitious—and creepiest—proposal yet. Facebook wants to build its own “brain-to-computer interface” that would allow us to send thoughts straight to a computer. Read more…
US Army backs droid for search and rescue missions Roboticists from the University of California, Berkeley, have built the “most vertically agile” robot, capable of jumping better than humans.…
From a strictly mineral standpoint, life on Earth is pretty ridiculous. Some carbon is organized, moves around a little and then falls back apart. Not so coincidentally, that’s also the basic premise of artist Agelio Batle’s Ash Dancer, which features a big-ass skeleton shaking around until it completely disappears. Read more…
Nowt wrong with Theranos, except, you know, everything Despite having lost its biggest customer, being forced to invalidate thousands of test results, being placed under investigation by the US government for fraud, facing sanctions, having had a testing facility shut down, and having had its CEO’s worth cut from $4.5bn to $0, “nothing’s gone wrong […]
Fireworks, which were invented in China, are obviously a big deal in China. But no fireworks show in any part of the country and very probably the world can match the sheer spectacle and beautiful audacity of the fireworks show in Nuanquan, China. That’s because it’s more of a molten metal show. A blacksmith, wearing […]
It has a nice price point for the specs, but performance is just too inconsistent to recommend.
Snapchat has unleashed its first ephemeral scripted webseries, Literally Can’t Even. The first five-minute episode, "Sip & Surf Party XXX," is available today on the Snap Channel in the app’s new Discover platform. Read more…