Democracy itself will have to be reinvented in the age of planetary crises, the philosopher Achille Mbembe argues. We need a new generation of rights that do not depend on the nation-state. Nils Gilman: In […]
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Denis Villeneuve Tackling Adaptation of Sci-Fi Classic ‘Rendezvous With Rama’
After tackling Frank Herbert’s speculative classic Dune, Denis Villeneuve is set to direct an adaption of another sci-fi story from genre staple Arthur C. Clarke. Villeneuve will helm Rendezvous With Rama for Alcon Entertainment. The […]
Walmart Filings Reveal Plans to Create Cryptocurrency, NFTs
Walmart Inc. is preparing to create its own cryptocurrency and collection of non-fungible tokens, filings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office show. The retailer sought several new trademarks in December that show it intends […]
Silicon Valley’s Latest Wild Bet on Living Forever
Funders of a deep-pocketed new “rejuvenation” startup are said to include Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner. Altos is pursuing biological reprogramming technology, a way to rejuvenate cells in the lab that some scientists think could […]
Second Life’s Creator is Back to Build a ‘Metaverse That Doesn’t Harm People’
As Second Life positions itself as an alternative to a metaverse dominated by big tech, founder Philip Rosedale is returning as an advisor. To many people, much of the tech and gaming industries’ recent obsession […]
After the Beanie Baby Bubble Burst
What happens when the frenzy ends and the world doesn’t value your valuables? At the height of Beanie Baby mania in the 1990s, plenty of people genuinely believed the toys might be the key to […]
Why All The Web3 Hate?
Crypto is rebranding itself as ‘web3′ and the mainstream tech community don’t like it one bit. But they’re missing the point. For good or ill, crypto’s mission to redefine finance is where the constructive feedback […]
The Antitrust Case Against Facebook Draws Blood
The latest ruling by a federal judge is a milestone for the effort to regulate Big Tech. On Tuesday, federal judge James E. Boasberg ruled that the Federal Trade Commission’s effort to break up Facebook […]
Astronomers Just Mapped The ‘Bubble’ That Traps Our Planet
Astronomers have discovered that a 1000-light-year-wide “Local Bubble” surrounding the Sun and Earth is responsible for the formation of all nearby, young stars. The study reveals that Earth and all of the stars and star-forming […]
Spectacular Space Missions to Look Forward to in 2022
Astronomers ended 2021 on a high with the launch on December 25 of the James Webb Space Telescope, but what else lies in store for space science this year? NASA’s Artemis program to send human […]
How Prehistoric Geniuses Launched Humanity’s Technological Revolution
Then, as now, one person could literally change the course of history, with nothing more than an idea. It’s not impossible that people invented similar technologies in different parts of the world at roughly the […]
Francesca Bria on Decentralisation, Sovereignty, and Web3
A conversation with Francesca Bria that ranges over a number of themes, from the early history of Internet activist communities in Europe, to the lessons to be learned from Latin America, to the political limitations […]
China’s Artificial Sun Breaks Record for Longest Sustained Nuclear Fusion
In a new world record, China’s “artificial sun” project has sustained a nuclear fusion reaction for more than 17 minutes. In the latest experiment, superheated plasma reached 126 million degrees Fahrenheit—that’s roughly five times hotter […]
Why Attention is the Most Important Issue of Our Time
Tristan Harris and Daniel Schmachtenberger discuss how Social Media creates the illusion of winning while actually driving up cultural arms races. Whether you care about climate change, racial justice, economic inequality, or education, none of […]
Inside Apple Park
Opening the doors to their studio at Apple Park in Cupertino for the first time, the Apple Design Team offers us a deep dive into the working processes behind their latest creations. It’s been three […]
Animals Laugh Too
Every pet owner knows that animals love to play, but laughter seems reserved for humans, a few apes, and maybe a few birds good at mimicking humans and apes. As it turns out, according to […]
Hopepunk and Futures of Hard Work
We need all sorts of stories, but we have a special need for hopepunk right now, because, in many people’s lived experience, this is one of those false-utopias which seemed great but has had its […]
The Digital Housing Crisis
“The rent is too damn high in the real world. By George, let’s not repeat the same mistakes in the digital one.” Digital real estate is not actually a new phenomenon, and history consistently shows […]
Roland Emmerich’s Latest Plunge Into Old Esoterica and Pulp Conspiracies
With Moonfall Emmerich seems to have dusted off two main ideas for his plot – The Hollow Moon and The World Ice Doctrine of Hanns Hörbiger. This idea began to gestate after the Apollo 12 […]
Google’s Vegan Searches on the Rise
Google searches for “vegan food near me” experienced a more than 5,000-percent increase in 2021. Outside of “vegan food near me,” Google users were seeking out other vegan-related topics. In the month of October, “is […]
Next for The Metaverse: Convincing You It’s Not Just for Kids
Today’s metaverse users are mostly kids and teens, presenting a near-term challenge for companies to attract older users. Some of the smartest people in the world came out this year to say the next big […]
Boeing Wants to Build its Next Airplane in The Metaverse
In Boeing Co’s factory of the future, immersive 3-D engineering designs will be twinned with robots that speak to each other, while mechanics around the world will be linked by HoloLens headsets made by Microsoft. […]
Adidas Steps Into The Metaverse
On Friday, Adidas will release Into the Metaverse, its first NFT collection, for sale here for 0.2 ETH. Owners of the tokens will get exclusive access to Adidas experiences and product—both virtual and physical, starting […]
How The Metaverse Won Christmas
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, had the most popular app in Apple’s App Store on Christmas Day: the Oculus virtual reality app. That’s the app people download to manage the Oculus VR headset, and its top […]
Mojo Vision’s Smart Contact Lens Could Be Transformative for Sight Impaired
Mojo Vision, a Saratoga, California-based startup is seeking to improve the lives of people living with sight loss by launching a smart contact lens that can overlay information on the real world and augment what […]
NASA Turns to Religious Scholars to Prepare Humanity for Alien Contact
A priest, a rabbi and an imam are among theologians hired by NASA to examine how the world would react if life beyond earth was found on other planets. The US space agency NASA has […]
The 10 Strangest Space Structures Discovered in 2021
As a reminder that the universe just gets stranger and stranger the farther you get from Earth, here are 10 of the most awesome, extreme and enigmatic space structures discovered in 2021. This year, scientists […]
The Ultimate Guide to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope
The $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope will probe the cosmos to uncover the history of the universe from the Big Bang to alien planet formation and beyond. It is one of NASA’s Great Observatories, […]
Get Started With Making AI Art in 2022
An introduction to the history of AI generated art with links to lots of tutorials and other resources. If you are interested about the current AI graphic art scene, this is meant for you. I […]
A Foundation for Web3 from The Creator of Web1
Tim Berners-Lee’s startup, Inrupt, has raised about $30 million in its Series A financing round. Inrupt — founded by the creator of the standards of the world wide web, Berners-Lee, and technologist John Bruce — […]