Category: Weird
Black Investors Call On VCs to Fix Hiring and Funding
When Monique Woodard started Black Founders in 2011, she wanted to help black entrepreneurs like herself find mentorship, community, and funding in a tech industry…
Behind the Scenes With the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Master of Jellyfish
There’s perhaps no creature on earth more blissfully unaware of the turmoil humanity is descending into than the jellyfish. I mean, it doesn’t even have…
The Best Kindle to Buy (and Which to Avoid) for 2020
The 2018 Kindle Paperwhite is an upgrade worth considering. For a couple extra Jacksons, it opens up the joys of reading in the pool, beach,…
The Protests Prove the Need to Regulate Surveillance Tech
Law enforcement has used surveillance technology to monitor participants of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, as it has with many other protests in US…
5 Raspberry Pi Alternatives: Rock64, PocketBeagle, Banana Pi, Odroid
What would you get if you chopped off the screen of your laptop and threw the keyboard in the trash? You’d get something close to…
Just How Historic Is the Latest Covid-19 Science Meltdown?
When The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine pulled an influential pair of Covid-19 papers last Thursday, it was a rare event in…
IoT Security Is a Mess. Privacy ‘Nutrition’ Labels Could Help
Another key aspect of the security and privacy label project is that the information is also encoded to be machine readable. This way, even if…
These Bacteria Ate Their Way Through a Really Tricky Maze
Trung Phan’s science experiment began with a dare. His boss, Princeton University physicist Robert Austin, challenged him to design a maze that Austin couldn’t solve….
The Future of Xbox Isn’t Just a Console
Microsoft and Sony will launch the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 later this year. While their hardware improvements are hard to argue with, they’re…
To Adapt to Tech, We’re Heading Into the Shadows
Almost all work settings that deal with intelligent technologies have one overarching goal: Figure out how to get value out of the damn thing. For…