Relevant technological stories.
Attention, Engineering Students: If you’re looking for an internship with an up-and-coming space mining operation, check out this posting for a position with Planetary Resources, Inc. (PRI). For real. No, seriously. I’m not joking.
Dear Factory Worker, Are you afraid of the robot that threatens to replace you or a co-worker? Are you worried that that big, hulking, fast-moving machine will inadvertently whack you in the face if you happen to be standing too close, in the wrong place, occupying “meat space” a little too inconveniently? Never fear! ...
The mining industry is not apt to ignore the potential riches to be mined from various terrestrial resources. Now, a story from Space.com and MSNBC.com reveals recent activity to extend this reach to extra-terrestrial resources.
This American Life (TAL) is an awesome program that Ira Glass and company have been producing for years. This week, for the first time, they ran a retraction of one of their recent stories: Episode 454, Mr. Daisy and the Apple Factory. But the facts about Chinese labor conditions at Foxconn persist.
New York Times: ”Over the next few years, American astronauts will be competing for a handful of slots on the International Space Station, flying there on Russian Soyuz capsules.”
Today, April 15, is normally called “Tax Day” in the United States; it’s the day when thousands of people across the nation stand in long, long lines outside their local post offices to mail their tax returns in at the absolute last minute. This year, though, the filing deadline is delayed until Monday the...
The so-called “uncanny valley” is a phenomenon associated with the development of life-like robotics and androids. The idea is that a poor approximation of a human or animal, something that is perhaps 20% realistic, is seen as a 20% likeness. A 50% realistic likeness is seen as better than 20%, but still a non-threatening...
Are you a Call Center worker who answers Customer Service phone calls? Do you hate your job because for your entire shift you never know who’s going to yell at you next? Don’t worry! The good people at IBM are working to bring Watson into the Customer Service arena, displacing you from your job. ...
This list of ways to circumvent the former Egyptian government’s gambit to block the internet was posted in multiple places a few weeks ago, but it’s still worth looking at it to make a few conclusions and store for future uses.
We’ve all done it: written that ill-conceived email / Facebook / Twitter post and hit SEND when we should have hit DELETE. That SEND button is a cruel master, in that once we send out an electronic message it’s gone, it’s “out there.”