Try not to puke while playing ‘Wipeout’ in VR next year
This is either the best or worst way to play ‘Wipeout.’ Wipeout might be one of the most ill-suited games for virtual reality, featuring high-speed races with brilliant flashing lights and neon streaks...
View ArticleThis soul-crushing video of a starving polar bear on dry land shows how...
Photographer Paul Nicklen captured this heartbreaking scene of a starving polar bear scrounging for food on dry land. Paul Nicklen/Instagram Heartbreaking video shows a starving polar bear scavenging...
View ArticleApple Just Gave a Private Demo of Its Latest Self-Driving Tech
At a private workshop held this week for AI researchers, Apple researchers gave a rare glimpse of some machine learning technology they’re building for self-driving cars. Speaking to an exclusive...
View ArticleSony may finally let you change your PlayStation Network name
It wants the option sometime in 2018. Many a gamer has had regrets about their choice of username — xXxDeathCrusher420xXx might not be quite so appealing in adult life as it was in your teenage years....
View ArticleThis PlayStation Plus 1-year subscription deal is under $40
A rare deal on PlayStation Plus membership has brought a year’s subscription down to under forty bucks, just ahead of the holidays. The deal sees the twelve month subscription, usually priced at...
View ArticleNow there is a way for contagion from a bitcoin price collapse to flow into...
Put your hazmat suit on. You could get dirty. Reuters/Bobby Yip Everyone is assuming that bitcoin is largely disconnected from other financial markets so there will be little contagion if there is a...
View ArticleApple May Soon Get Another OLED Display Supplier
This year, Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) introduced the iPhone X, which included (among other standout features) an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. OLED displays have several advantages compared to...
View ArticleNew iPhone Leak Reveals Powerful Upgrade
Whatever advances Apple makes in the iPhones it releases in 2018, it looks like one key area will be in the performance of the battery. Latest reports suggest that Apple is working on replacing the...
View ArticleRobotics competition spurs interest in STEM fields
BARNESVILLE — Do you remember completing your class assignments in middle school? You probably were expected to learn and use basic concepts of algebra and geometry, read literary works and write...
View ArticleKingsport’s inaugural FIRST Lego Robotics competition held at D-B
KINGSPORT — Robotics isn’t just for high schoolers, and water problem solving is welcome in “coopertition.” A regional FIRST Lego League Robotics Competition drew more than 500 K-8 students Dec. 2 to...
View ArticleWoodstock’s Northwood Middle School hosts LEGO robotics qualifier
WOODSTOCK – Students from all over northern Illinois descended on Northwood Middle School Saturday for a roughly six-hour LEGO robotics competition. Teams, composed of up to 10 middle-schoolers,...
View ArticleStudents learn patience, perseverance in four-state robotics competition
NEWARK — First it worked. Then it didn’t. Then, mercifully, it did. Much as a robot is a marvel of design and precision engineering, it still can be a fickle thing. “Nerve-wracking,” said 14-year-old...
View ArticleSupersonic air travel just took another big step toward rebirth
In brief: Boom Supersonic has gotten another boost towards its goal of commercial supersonic flight by 2023. Boom founder Blake Scholl has announced a partnership with Japan Airlines, which invested...
View ArticleIntermountain Healthcare to pay $1M settlement in drug case
SALT LAKE CITY — In a case that federal officials are calling the largest settlement of its kind involving diversion of prescription drugs in Utah, Intermountain Healthcare has agreed to pay $1 million...
View ArticleThe UK alternative finance market is still healthy
To learn more and subscribe, please click here. The UK’s alternative finance market — including marketplace lending, crowdfunding, and invoice trading — grew 43% year-over-year (YoY) in 2016, from £3.2...
View ArticleAfrica’s Best Sectors For Technology-Enabled Investments In 2018
That said, much more is required to upgrade the financial ecosystem. Technology in this space is vital to bringing significantly more sub-Saharan Africans online and into the financial network. The low...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence Marketing In Healthcare
Director of strategic marketing at Philips Diagnostic Imaging, overseeing the business group’s go-to-market strategy across all markets. I don’t know a single marketer in healthcare who was prepared...
View ArticleA blockchain tech company raised $42.5 million in 2 weeks — in ‘one of the...
A man walks past a bitcoin ATM in Vilnius Thomson Reuters BitGo, a blockchain technology company, closed a $42.5 million fundraising round. The company, which provides technology for institutional...
View ArticleHealthcare IT Outsourcing Market Will Make a Huge Impact in Near Future
Valley Cottage, NY — (SBWIRE) — 12/11/2017 — Healthcare Information Technology encompasses all technologies and software based solutions that are utilized in modern healthcare environment. There are...
View ArticleNetflix users collectively watched 1 billion hours of content per week in 2017
Netflix users burned a lot of time watching content in 2017, though metrics seem to point that users have been watching less and less on average over time. In a year-end blog post, the streaming...
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