Its a big moment for the private space industry. But the question comes to mind: who has the smarter plan? After 15 successful test flights, this will be the first crewed flight for Blue Origins New Shepard spaceship. Two more seats will be taken up by Bezos and his brother Mark. A fourth seat will go to Wally Funk. 40% off TNW Conference! Branson will travel as part of a six person crew on Virgin Galactic space-plane VSS Unity....
By the same year, Jeep also expects that electric vehicleswill make up 70% of the total sales. 40% off TNW Conference! Do ebikes get your wheels spinning? Do self-driving cars get you all charged up? Story byIoanna Lykiardopoulou Ioanna is a writer at TNW. With a background in the humanities, she has a soft spot for social impact-enabling technologies. Also tagged with
Welcome to Neurals series on speculative science. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Its understandable if youre not falling out of your chair right now. On the surface, this feels like duh news. Its fairly common knowledge that migratory birds navigate using the Earths magnetic field. It’s free, every week, in your inbox....
The phone has no official name and is just called a Smartphone for Snapdragon Insiders. The marketing team clearly wasnt bothered about it. Qualcomm said that it built the phone with the help of Asus. It will be initially available in China, Germany, the UK, and the US starting next month. The phones specifications suggest that it can compete with any Android flagship released this year at least on paper....
Ive been a Casio fan for a while. TheCasiotone CT-S1feels like the epitome of Casios design philosophy. To me, it just seems like a fantastically good deal for a cent under $200. Im also far from an advanced pianist. But Iama professional gadget nerd and Im familiar with most of the digital piano options on the market. There just isnt much that offers the kind of value you get from the CT-S1 at this price point....
Sun Havenis a farming-based life sim fromPixel Sprout Studios. Its currently available in Steams Early Access program and will release later on Switch. The Good 40% off TNW Conference! This is a good thing. Whats more, the developers also differentiateSun Havenfrom similar titles by catering purely to the player. This game is dripping with quality of life tweaks on the decades-old formula. In some respects, the game can feel a bit toonice, but this is countered by its immensity....
New research has challenged the very existence of online filter bubbles. Researchers from the universities of Oxford and Liverpool analyzed web tracking data on around 3,000 UK news users. They also recorded the URL that preceded each visit to infer how the site was accessed. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. However, when people accessed more news directly, the prominence of more partisan outlets was lower. Researchers should be wary of extrapolating findings from one country to the rest of the world....
I have been popularizing quantum physics, my area of research, for many years now. The general public finds the topic fascinating and covers of books and magazines often draw on its mystery. Dont worry, you dont need to know much about quantum physics to read this article. I will mostly be explaining what quantum physics isnt, rather than what it is… 1. Quantum physics is all about uncertainty Wrong! Quantum physics is probably the most precise scientific discipline ever devised by humankind....
Soulja Boy used it and so did Southside and Martin Garrix. Porter Robinson used it. The legendary Deadmau5 has also used it. Scary, sure…but it doesnt have to be debilitating. This training includes 10 lectures and about an hour of content from noted instructor Abdullah Yildiz.
Overall, we had over 164,000 detections the last 7 days running the pilot. We were able to detect students on multiple cameras and even detected one student 1100 times! Taylor May, then a regional sales manager for AnyVision, said in an email to the schools administrators. 40% off TNW Conference! One of those retail stores is Macys, whichuses facial recognition to detect known shoplifters, according to Reuters. Neither Macys nor supermarket chain Mercadona responded to requests for comment....
Good-faith disagreements are a normal part of society and building strong relationships. But theres another factor thats often overlooked: the design of social media itself. My colleagues and I investigatedhow the design of social media affects online disagreementsand how to design for constructive arguments. We surveyed and interviewed 257 people about their experiences with online arguments and how design could help. (Full disclosure: I receive research funding from Facebook.) People can spend a lot of time on a social media site and not engage in arguments (e....
I came into the office completely drained after a difficult meeting. But when I looked up I stopped awestruck: someone had hung a painting on the wall. Suddenly the boring hallway had been turned into aroomwith personality and mood. My business partner had decided to hang up an abstract painting by modern Ukrainian artist Anton Popernyak he owned. So heres how we came up with this idea and what results we got from it....
A literal conversation piece. Theyd host prestigious dinner parties where the pieces were crafted by commissioned artists. Some were abstract, some more classical and poetic, and some were downright pornographic. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. But I was also inspired because I could see how the benefits can reach far beyond dinner parties. So here are my three tips to improve your communication, based on the age-old conversation piece....
