Technology

NFTs Were Never Worth Real Money, And Bored Ape Yacht Club Is A Racist Meme of Memes.

B ored Ape Yacht Club has been exposed as a ironic or post ironic racist meme using modified Nazi iconography mixed with one of the oldest and worst types of anti Black iconography.   The crypto currency crash has taught us all that it was foolish to trad ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 29 2022 - 11:10am

Morti The Robot Dog: Like A Newborn Animal, It Can't Walk Right Away- But An Hour Later It Did

Nature is out to kill everything so a newborn animal must learn to walk on its legs as fast as possible to avoid predators. Learning the precise coordination of leg muscles and tendons takes some time and initially baby animals rely heavily on hard-wired s ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2022 - 2:12pm

Co-Embodiment: Two People Control Two Limbs

A new study may improve the sense of embodiment when using autonomous prosthetic limbs. The work had left and right limbs are controlled by two people simultaneously and revealed that the visual information necessary to predict the partner’s intentions be ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 26 2022 - 9:23am

No Parent Needed: Synthetic Mouse Embryo Models Without Egg, Sperm Or Womb

A common first step in embryonic development is that an egg meets a sperm but in a Weizmann Institute of Science study published today in Cell, researchers have grown synthetic embryo models of mice outside the womb by starting solely with stem cells cultu ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2022 - 1:04pm

Confidential Computing Has Made Data Sharing Safer

The internet creates and propagates data by default. Decades since its development, we now live in the Age of Big Data. From recommendation systems to drug discovery, big data has enabled unprecedented innovations. Yet, the downside of the growth of data, ...

Article - Mark Pierce - Sep 2 2022 - 10:31pm

Will You Pay More If You Like The Feel Of A Smartphone? Probably

A recent survey found that even if the cost was 10X as much (though still a small amount), users would pay more if they liked the feel of a smartphone cover. This means designers might benefit more factoring that into product design. The caveat; this was ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2022 - 9:54am

Mr. Cloud, I Don’t Like You Any More.

My nice Plaxo online address book disappeared when the host company was sold and the buyer discontinued the service. My contacts, up in smoke. Dropbox (cloud storage and data synch) and TunnelBear (VPN) both decided not to support my OS any more, as did G ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Nov 10 2022 - 5:00pm

Want To Buy A Tech Company?

If you’ve drunk the MBA kool-aid, you believe VCs and M&A bean-counters rationally price their investments. If an honest professor has confessed to you that company valuation is a black art, i.e., that there’s a heavy dose of intuition involved, you’v ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Nov 24 2022 - 9:43am

?? 'AI Could Be The Best Or Worst Thing To Happen To Humanity'- Stephen Hawking's Speech & Mindlessness Of Chatbots

This is a speech Stephen Hawking gave at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon on Monday. It’s actually an upbeat and optimistic speech, but one particular phrase from the speech is scaring many people. Stephen Hawking has a love of the dramatic, and he oft ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 25 2022 - 5:20pm

‘Peer Community In’ May Accomplish What Open Access Could Not

In 2017, three researchers from the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE), Denis Bourguet, Benoit Facon and Thomas Guillemaud, founded Peer Community In (PCI), a peer-review-based service for recommending preprints ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 22 2022 - 11:34am