He strapped a robotic arm with a claw to a six-rotor drone, both custom-made in his Lucknow lab.

The Gillmor Gang — Denis Pombriant, Keith Teare, Esteban Kolsky, Michael Markman, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 4, 2018. G3: Trust Me — Mary Hodder, Halley Suitt Tucker, Francine Har…

Just pray you don’t have to find the pile of poo emoji

Another big development in the personal data misuse saga attached to the controversial Trump campaign-linked UK-based political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica — which could lead to fresh li…

Machine learning may be the tool de jour for everything from particle physics to recreating the human voice, but it’s not exactly the easiest field to get into. Despite the complexities of vi…

Beating another record set by Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Earlier today, the services marketplace Thumbtack held a small conference for 300 of its best gig economy workers at an event space in San Francisco. For the nearly ten-year-old company the event was designed to introduce some new features and a redesign…

Personal privacy is a fairly new concept. Most people used to live in tight-knit communities, constantly enmeshed in each other’s lives. The notion that privacy is an important part of person…

Epic Games is borrowing the best ideas from across the entire video game industry

Director Michael Tully crafts a dreamy horror film about an "evil miracle"

We were skeptical about The Rain, a new Danish series from Netflix. Not that the trailer was bad, exactly. It’s just hard to take a show with the tagline “Stay Dry. Stay Alive.” v…

Wiig, Alia Shawkat, and Ethan Hawke costar in this podcast dramedy about the human element behind voice assistant tech

‘Where the hell are all the black people in space?’

Last week at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen, we saw an open source community coming together, full of vim and vigor and radiating positive energy as it recognized its growing clout in the…

How a pair of headphones can help you love music.

Another week, another paywall. This time, it’s Bloomberg, which announced that it would be adding a comprehensive paywall to its news service and television channel (except TicToc, its media partne…

When Facebook’s Founder Mark Zuckerberg testified before House and Senate panels earlier this month, he explained how his company uses the data of millions of Americans. This particular set of hear…

It’s the most powerful Cayenne right now and it offers an estimated 27 miles of electric range

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