The weather is one of the most searched subjects online. What if you learned about the five-day forecast—and the 50-year forecast at the same time?
If you look up the weather forecast on a hot day, a new weather site will also tell you how hot it’s likely to be in 2050—and show you exactly how much local temperatures have risen over the last 45 years.
Compare your salary, learn new skills, polish up that resume, and more.
You work hard for the money, so they’d better treat you right—am I right? Here are some apps to help you make sure you’re earning what you should be earning, sharpen your skills, and craft an escape plan if you’re not happy with your current employer.
Powerful, carefully controlled sound waves could be used to control objects without having to touch them at all—even inside the human body.
This video shows a real live tractor beam in action. It uses an array of small speakers to levitate objects and to move them precisely through the air. The beam can even pull objects from above, just like the tractor beams that aliens spacecraft use to abduct human subjects for their terrifying experiments.
Kids’ fanciful drawings have been rendered faithfully in plush polyester—wonky lines, uneven eyes, and all.
Have you ever looked at an adorable-yet-incompetent drawing made by a child and thought, “Now wait a minute—that would make an amazing plush toy?” No, neither have I, which is why neither of us has a job at Ikea coming up with awesome new product designs.
One in 4 global corporations are already seeing water issues affect their business. The situation is only getting worse.
Before the world runs short of energy or food, it’s likely to run out of usable water. The U.N. says more than 1 billion people live in water-stressed areas, and every forecast shows the situation getting worse because of climate change and population growth. NASA said this year that 21 of the world’s most important aquifers have already passed replacement point: more water is being taken out than is going back in.
A new consumer study finds that minorities are more interested in VR, and Oculus is not No. 1.
Minorities are more likely than whites to be passionate about virtual reality. And despite the attention paid to Facebook-owned Oculus in the media, Sony’s PlayStation VR is the most recognized brand.
A Google designer shared what he learned working on Cardboard so that you don’t have to suffer so much.
Virtual Reality is a nascent technology, in which all of the studied rules and clever UI elements that have made our phones and laptops so comfortable to use don’t actually exist yet. And so Jean-Marc Denis, a designer for Google (where he helped launched Inbox), took to Medium to share his experience of jumping into the new field for Google Cardboard.
An exhibition at the New York Historical Society chronicles the golden age of computer innovation in New York.
“Before the 1980s, New York was the physical, social, and economic center for technology,” says Stephen Edidin, curator of Silicon City: Computer History Made in New York, an exhibition at the New York Historical Society, which opens November 13. “The basic message is, don’t forget your past because the history of computing didn’t start with Steve Jobs.”
Google seems to have plans for Android that involve getting hardware ready for virtual reality and augmented reality.
New reports indicate that Google is actively intervening in the fate of hardware for future Android phones, and even considering making their own processors. In a pair of paywalled reports, The Information‘s Amir Efrati claims Google is looking for partners to develop chips based on the company’s designs, and that Google is approaching hardware makers with a detailed laundry list of hardware upgrades related to camera, sensor, and memory functionality.
In a Medium post, Roetter apologized for his comments about diversity at Twitter, which were disclosed this week by a former employee.
Earlier this week, a former Twitter employee took to Medium to disclose that he left his job because he felt diversity was not being made a priority at the company. As Twitter’s sole black engineer in a leadership role, Leslie Miley wrote that he wondered “how and why a company whose product has been used as an agent of revolutionary social change did not reflect the diversity of thought, conversation, and people in its ranks.”
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