| Burner phones: will they be burned at the legal stake for their perceived sins? (Image courtesy survivethewild.net.) |
Blowing Up The Burners: New Bill To Make Anonymous Cell Phones Illegal?
Chances are, as a modern human being, you own at least one cell phone that you guard with a vigilance that many bodyguards would envy. It's as important as your wallet or keys, and maybe more so due to its irreplaceability. But what about the cell phones that are used specifically for their disposable nature? Should they be illegal just because sometimes you have business to handle that you don't want interacting with the rest of your real life?
Screen Cuisine: New MMMojis Make Eatery Choices Easy
Are you lazy, or just hungover? Hey, we don't discriminate, are you both? If you find your state of lushness and/or lackadaisicality is impeding your most base efforts at communication - not even speech, we're talking an inability to text properly - well, now technology has an answer for you.
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| This is also ideal for when your SO claims they don't care what they want to eat. Scroll and randomly hit an icon, problem solved! (Image courtesy dailymail.co.uk.) |
Space Station Sunday: In Cygnus And In Health
Good evening, space fans! It's been another fascinating week for our friends falling through space.
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| Later, they're going to set that whole damn spacecraft on fire. Wait, what? (Image courtesy Jeff Williams / NASA.gov.) |
Putting The "Art" In "Artificial Intelligence": Japanese Researchers Create A Book-Writing 'Bot
It seems we can't go more than a day without hearing about another job being taken over by a robot. While their applications for manufacturing, gaming, navigation, food service, and concierge roles are effective, some 'bots in Japan are taking things to a whole new level. Namely, passing themselves off as human author.
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| "Call me Ishmael-2000." (Image courtesy www.easysystems.nl.) |
You-Apalooza: Catch Concerts Without Leaving Your Couch Thanks To This Streaming Service
Are you a rocker, but due to time, money, or location constraints, you can't rock out at a show? No worries - this concert-broadcasting service will still make you feel like a sultan of sound.
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| Impending avalanche of rocking out! (Image courtesy allposters.com.) |
R.I.P. To A Young A.I.: Microsoft's Savage "Teen Girl" Twitter-Bot Lobotomized Within One Day
It's one thing to have society be taken over by industrious labor-bots...it's another thing when the machines are "smart" enough to form opinions after assessing popular input. While it's a fascinating and fun future that holds promise of a robot that outsmarts experts at one of our most difficult board games, or knows massive amounts of trivia, when artificial intelligence is outsourced to the internet, the supposed "intelligence" comes across as...well, something less than that.
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We keep learning the hard way that the digital natives are a vicious tribe. (Image courtesy @geraldmellor.) |
Go Out With Your Glow Out: Prototype Bio-Fueled "Mourning Lights" For Cemeteries
Sure, the future may look cool now, but what about looking further...say, for after you're dead? If you're not useful and good-looking already, here's a way that you may be able to improve that...although unfortunately, it'll be too late for you to really enjoy it.
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| Not exactly like this, although that would be cool. (Image courtesy aliexpress.com.) |
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