Its benefits depend on where you live and your current economic status.
The Internet has often been called the Great Democratizer; a tool that gives everyone the opportunity to have their voice heard and to gain access to the same universal wealth of information as everyone else–-in short, a tool that puts everyone on equal footing. But according to a new report from the World Bank, that feel-good belief may be far from the truth. In fact, the Internet may be widening inequality.
Move will speed development of driverless cars.
A new proposal to be unveiled by Obama administration officials on Thursday will speed the development of self-driving cars, according to Reuters. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will be in Detroit on Thursday to discuss the administration’s initiative to get autonomous vehicles on the road faster in part by laying down a legal framework and guidelines that governs their use.
The photography of Areca Roe explores why some people choose a pig or a python over a dog or a cat.
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who have a heart attack when they find a burmese python in their living room, and those who only start panicking when their python is missing. Housebroken, a series of photographs collected into a book by Minneapolis-based Areca Roe, focuses on the latter: individuals who choose to share their life with strange and exotic pets like snakes, parrots, and pigs.
Make way for mutant bacon.
It took two decades for the first genetically engineered animal to get approved for your dinner. Now that AquAdvantage salmon—with DNA engineered from three species—is moving forward, more genetically modified meat is likely to follow. But it’s not clear how long that will take.
The widow of a man killed by ISIS has filed a lawsuit, accusing Twitter of allowing the terrorist group to spread its message.
The widow of a man killed in an attack on a Jordanian police training center filed a lawsuit against Twitter on Wednesday in San Francisco federal court, accusing the company of giving a mouthpiece to terrorist groups like ISIS—which took credit for the attack. The suit argues that ISIS has used Twitter to attract new recruits and to disseminate propaganda, and that the site has “knowingly or with willful blindness” aided terrorists as a result.
Samsung will likely spend $7.47 billion to expand flexible OLED display business, ET News reports.
Samsung’s display business is planning to spend $7.47 billion to expand its capacity to manufacture flexible OLED displays for future mobile devices, including iPhones.
The integration is another example of Skype’s efforts to ease the enablement of its service inside other platforms.
Skype released the preview version of a new plug-in today that enables voice and video calls within the popular Slack team messaging platform.
Business customers will get additional options. Shippers of bulky items will pay more. And one market is going away.
By any measure, Shyp had an eventful 2015. The on-demand shipping service—which lets you use a smartphone to summon a courier who will take any item off to a Shyp warehouse to be packed up and sent on its way via the most economical option—launched in two new cities, Los Angeles and Chicago. It launched Shyp Returns, a feature designed to simplify sending stuff back to online merchants . It turned its couriers from contractors into full employees. It collected $50 million in funding from investors. And toward the end of the year, it added tools for package recipients as well as senders, became a shipping option on eBay, and gave its branding a thorough makeover.
In a Backchannel post, editor Steven Levy details his experience behind the wheel of one of Google’s self-driving cars.
So you want to take a self-driving car for a spin? Backchannel editor Steven Levy, who had the chance to test out Google’s crop of autonomous vehicles, published a post on Wednesday that pulls back the curtain on the company’s exclusive training center—and reveals how you, too, can get behind the wheel of a Google car.
Digital mental health is a fairly new but fast-growing field.
Apple’s HealthKit, which launched last year, is a service for people to pull together health and fitness data from their favorite apps. Apple refers to the service as the “beginning of a health revolution.”
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