Yale teaches robotics not to tinker individuals’s things
When it comes to getting a quality education, a robot could do far worse than a program at Yale. Machine learning researchers at the Ivy-League university recently started teaching robots about the nuances of social interaction. And there’s no better place to start than with possessions. One of the earliest social constructs that humans learn…
Rather of Informing Your Kid There’s No Santa, Allow Them To...
I don’t remember the moment I stopped believing in Santa, but I remember the utterly perfect way my mom handled it when I finally asked. I say “finally” because I was pretty young when I noticed that Santa and my mom had the same handwriting and used the same wrapping paper, but there was no…
How the human eye might ruin quantum mechanics
At the very edge of human perception lies our eyes’ ability to perceive a single photon of light. Physicists believe this amazing feat could be a catalyst to illuminate some of our universe’s biggest mysteries. What is the universe made of? Why are we here? One popular theory that addresses both of these questions is called…
Apple’s expected ECG app presents today in watchOS 5.1.2
Valentina Palladino The newest update for Apple Watches is out now, bringing a highly anticipated feature to Series 4 devices. Apple pushed out watchOS 5.1.2 today, which includes its ECG app for monitoring irregular heartbeats. Apple Watch Series 4 devices all have built-in electrodes that can measure electrocardiograms, or ECGs. At the time of the…
Edge passes away a death of a thousand cuts as Microsoft...
As reported earlier this week, Microsoft is going to use Google's Blink rendering engine and V8 JavaScript engine in its Edge browser, largely ending development of its own EdgeHTML rendering engine and Chakra JavaScript engine. This means that Microsoft will be using code from—and making contributions to—the Chromium open source project. The company's browser will…
Microsoft continues its mission to welcome every designer with Visual Studio...
Enlarge / Visual Studio 2019 has a new icon; the left one for the release version, the right one for previews. Microsoft today made a number of developer-oriented announcements that continue its theme of the last few years: the company wants its tools—and ultimately its platforms, especially Azure—to be the choice of every developer, no…
Report: Microsoft is ditching Edge, changing to simply another Chrome clone
Getty / Aurich Windows Central reports that Microsoft is planning to replace its Edge browser, which uses Microsoft's own EdgeHTML rendering engine and Chakra JavaScript engine, with a new browser built on Chromium, the open source counterpart to Google's Chrome. The new browser has the codename Anaheim. The report is short on details. The easiest…
Apple will avoid 5G in 2019, report states
Enlarge / From left to right: the iPhone 8, the iPhone XS, the iPhone XR, and the iPhone XS Max. Samuel Axon Apple will not introduce an iPhone capable of taking advantage of faster 5G cellular data networks in 2019, a report from Bloomberg says. Citing people familiar with Apple's plans, the report specifies that…
Astronomy Cast Ep. 508: 2018 Vacation Present Guide
We did it, we made it to the end of another year. Once again it’s time to wonder what gifts to get your beloved space nerds. We’ve got some suggestions. Some are brand new this year, others are classics that we just can’t help but continue to suggest. Let’s get into it. We usually record…
Palm Phone Evaluation: Enjoyable, capitivating, and bad at whatever
The Palm Phone! It fits in your palm. It's so light you can support it with a USB cable. The back is glass, but I'm not sure the phone weighs enough for a drop to cause damage. This side has a power button, while the bottom has a USB-C port. There's nothing on this side…
