SpaceX’s futuristic Starship interplanetary craft may embody the golden age of sci-fi in more ways than one: in addition to (theoretically) taking passengers from planet to planet, it may sport a shiny stainless steel skin that makes it look like the pulp covers of old. Founder and CEO Elon Musk teased the possibility in a […]
Daily Archives: December 26, 2018
Amazon this morning said its Alexa devices were among the holiday season’s best-sellers, particularly the Echo and Echo Dot. But the influx of new users setting up their devices for the first time on Christmas Day appeared to be more than Alexa could handle. The service crashed briefly on Christmas, as thousands of new Alexa […]
Alexa crashed on Christmas Day
You can’t always get what you want. But there are smarter, more sustainable ways to get cash (or store credit) instead.
How to Return and Exchange Your Unwanted Gifts or Purchases
Researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, while testing the “station keeping” functions of the glass knifefish, have created an augmented reality system that tricks the animal’s electric sensing organs in real time. The fish keeps itself hidden by moving inside of its various holes/homes and the researchers wanted to understand what kind of […]
Researchers are putting fish into augmented reality tanks
If you’re looking for deals or unwrapped some gift cards this season, there are plenty of killer year-end sales happening.