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• Facebook wants to use your Oculus data for ads because of course it does

  Oculus this week revealed it's rolling out a batch of new social features tied to Facebook. While the features themselves ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Why designers need to look beyond 2 genders

  Something I’ve been ruminating on for a long time is our lack of gender options when users register for products and services. I’m not the first one to notice this, but it’s still happening, and it’s more prevalent than we realize. While I personally identify as a cisgender ...

  • Anne E Cook

• Neurons — a fuckton of them — are what make us smarter than other animals

  Here’s something new to consider being thankful for at the dinner table: the long evolutionary journey that gave you your big brain and your long life. Courtesy of our primate ancestors that invented cooking over a million years ago, you are a member of the one species able to ...

  • The Conversation

• Former employee says Apple spied on his private messages

  Apple is currently suing a former employee for breach of contract and for poaching several employees for his own startup. The former employee, meanwhile, claims the company's main evidence was obtained by monitoring his texts. The lawsuit, which Apple filed in a California court, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Netflix's newest original is a scripted series about Spotify

  Netflix today announced its plan for a scripted series about “Swedish music sensation Spotify.” The series, based on the book Spotify Untold, will focus on the company’s origin story as it rose from European unknown to household name during the heyday of music piracy. “The ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Forza Horizon 4 becomes the latest game to get a Battle Royale mode

  Starting tomorrow, 12 December, Battle Royale fever hits... Forza Horizon 4? Developer Playground Games today announced the game's upcoming free update will include a 72-car elimination race mode. And it looks awesome: https://youtu.be/OuPm24YCnes Ah Battle Royale, the game ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Report: Palantir took over Project Maven, the military AI program too unethical for Google

  Palantir, the surveillance company founded by Peter Thiel, has unsurprisingly stepped up to fill the void left behind after Google abandoned Project Maven earlier this year over ethical concerns. Project Maven, for those unfamiliar, is a Pentagon program to build an AI-powered ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Thanks to AI, medical treatments are becoming more personalized

  Artificial Intelligence has come a long way since it was in its blooming stages in the 1940s. It was a time when the direct ...

  • James Warner

• How we can stop our smart toasters from spying on us

  Statista projects that there will be 75.4 billion Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices by 2025, a fivefold increase ...

  • Binary District Journal

• I want to meet the person who buys the $53k Mac Pro

  Apple's Mac Pro is available for purchase today, and several people have noticed something curious about it. Namely that, if you choose the correct options during the purchasing process, it will cost you more than a Cybertruck. The Mac Pro slides in just at the end of 2019, technically ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Humans best AI in first-ever Drone Racing League showdown

  The Drone Racing League recently held its first Human VS AI match, pitting a drone helmed by AI developed by Delft University ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Double eureka: Breakthroughs could lead to quantum 'FM radio' and the end of noise

  A team of scientists from the University of Chicago discovered a method by which quantum states can be integrated and controlled ...

  • Tristan Greene