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In the past few months I’ve seen some really impressive stuff in VR. From standing atop the mountains of Skyrim, gazing down at a seemingly endless landscape, to the subtle nuances of the little girl in Wolves in the Walls, VR is really starting to hit its stride lately, especially with character interactions. Now with light field company Lytro’s acquisition […]
Enlarge / Peacock. (credit: Mateusz Drogowski / Flickr) “Why All the Fuss about Sex?” wonders Michael Ryan. He wonders enough to make it the title of the first chapter of his new book, A Taste for the Beautiful. One would be forgiven for thinking it would be a short chapter—consisting of the single word “duh”—but […]
GUEST: Technology is mostly incremental. We make batteries last 20 percent longer. We make glass strong enough to serve as the front surface of a cellphone. We let headphones sample ambient sounds so they can filter more noise. Products perform better. They cost less. They last longer. Sometimes a different sort of innovation comes along, […]
How did life begin on Earth? That is a question pondered by humans for millennia. But while the answer remains elusive, a team of scientists believe they’ve found the key mechanism behind life’s essential ingredient – protein. Amino acids are the ‘building blocks’ of proteins, one of the prerequisites for life in any known form. […]
GUEST: While artificial intelligence applications in business and industry remain limited to narrow machine learning tasks, we are seeing progressive improvements in the convergence of algorithms and hardware that will have significant implications for how well and how quickly we can implement AI. Researchers can now train neural networks within a few hours or days, […]
Enlarge / Brain made of cables of different colors and plug (credit: Miguel Navarro / Getty Images) “I am sorry, but your brain suffers from avalanches” is a diagnosis that should be a thing. The cure should involve a St. Bernard digging neurons out from under piles of neurotransmitter. Unfortunately, everyone’s brain suffers from avalanches. […]
BI Intelligence This is a preview of a research report from BI Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service. To learn more about BI Intelligence, click here. The communications market is in the midst of an all-out war. The deluge of messaging apps, such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, and Viber, have over-run the segment traditionally […]
– From the December 2017 issue – From the moment electric headlights snuffed out kerosene and acetylene lamps in the 1910s, automakers have struggled to illuminate the road without blinding oncoming drivers. The industry’s first unified effort to rein in glare was led by the carmakers themselves before the automobile was federally regulated. In the […]
– From the December 2017 issue – You’ve lost them and you’ve found them. The once humble key has grown up, gained utility, and may soon become obsolete. Here are some highlights of the key’s evolution: – – 1949 Chrysler: While the first key that turned on a car’s ignition arrived in the early 20th […]
Roy Moore’s campaign for a Senate seat in Alabama seemed to rebound to some degree this week, despite multiple allegations from women who said he pursued varying levels of sexual contact with them when they were teens and he was in his 30s. But a new focus on Moore’s previous public statements on controversial topics […]
