It’s striking just how thoroughly bourgeois is the climate change phenomenon, at every level from the Eton old boys behind Extinction Rebellion to the Greens-voting wealthy inner suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney. Climate change is the ultimate first-world problem, the almost exclusive preserve of the anxious middle-classes. The sort
Evie Kendal, Deakin University Tesla’s new “Blade Runner-inspired” electric cybertruck has the world turning its head. The internet has had a field day since the vehicle’s launch on Thursday, with users finding creative ways to ridicule the truck’s eccentric design. This isn’t the first time Tesla
14-Year-Old Invents Driving Technology of the Future A 14-year-old student may have revolutionized the way people drive. Alaina Gassler, a freshman at Avon Grove Charter School in West Grove, Pennsylvania, just won a $25,000 prize for potentially eliminating the blind spots on a car. It all started with their
Why do all the pictures you take underwater look blandly blue-green? The answer has to do with how light travels through water. Derya Akkaynak, an oceangoing engineer, has figured out a way to recover the colorful brilliance of the deep. If you have a great Youtube or Vimeo video to
Despite Facebook’s pretensions to stamping out fake news and fraud on its platform, it seems often remarkably reluctant to do so. Even when certain very rich individuals are making it known in no uncertain terms that outright scams are being run on Facebook. For most of the past year,
Well, that is one way of describing it, I guess. Do you remember the incident in March 2018 when a pedestrian was struck and killed by a ‘self-driving’ Uber car? The driver was seemingly distracted at the time and was apparently relying on the software to drive the car. However,
In 100 years, the TV has taken many shapes and sizes. Here’s the history of the television, from the 1920s to today. 1920s The 1920s gave us the mechanical television. The first model had a small display on the right, and a huge cabinet. These first TVs were very
Malcolm I am not at all surprised that the New Zealand Police have lost 31,000 gun records as government departments and quangos have a long record of being hopeless with databases and computer systems. Until recently I worked in a military organisation, and our engineering group had a drawing
Sometimes the comedy writes itself. In another case of where truth is stranger than fiction, some giant Womble has decided that it would be a great idea to use face recognition software on PORN users to make sure that they are 18 years of age or older. I am sure
Top 5 Best Future Gadgets And Future Technology Coming in 2019-2020 ? 2 5. AMX – The ebike for cities. 4. Roybi Robot. 3. SKYMEE OWL ROBOT. 2. The Newest Generation of Convenience and Security. 1. Mudita Pure.
CRISPR technology has taken a new leap. Scientist David Liu of the Broad Institute says that fine tuning of this gene editing technology could correct about 89 percent of the mutations in human heritable diseases. Legal and Media analyst Lionel breaks it all down (13:29). Talks between Turkish President
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