Around 105 million people were considered obese in 1975, according to worldwide body mass index (BMI) measurements. As recently as 2014, the number increased to more than 640 million, and that’s only including adult men and women. But, despite this, there’s a silver lining: people are also living around ten years longer than before. This …
Have you ever gone on a roller coaster and thought: this could be better, if only aliens were attacking me at the same time? Six Flags is here to answer your call, with what will either be the best summer pastime or the most gimmicky: virtual reality coasters. The original Revolution steel coaster debuted on …
It may be a little on the nose to say that oil is quickly becoming a fossil in the energy industry, but today it earned one more notch on its “time to retire” board. Thanks to a hazard map released today by the U.S. Geological Survey (the USGS), Oklahoma is on its way to danger …
How could the city of the future look? eVolo Magazine has been trying to find that out by hosting a Skyscraper Competition each year since 2006. The competition awards visionaries who try to design what could be the vertical architecture of the future with progressive ideas about technology, materials, programs and more involved. This year …
The internet sure knows how to ruin something, and quick. But it did teach us a quick, somewhat hilarious, horrible lesson: never raise anyone by the internet. This is the lesson Microsoft learned when they introduced TayTweets to the world, an artificial intelligence chatbot who learned by conversing. She was meant to learn how to talk …
If you haven’t heard about it, the mirror test is one of the top ways humans have been able to test animals for self-awareness. The most recent addition to these ranks is the manta ray, an animal that has recently been observed recognizing itself in its reflection. But where some are meeting the news with …
According to the developers behind the Phonvert movement, we’ve spent the last twenty years talking about changing the world into “the internet of things” (or IoT), a world where everything is connected. And yet, excluding some smart-cars, fridges and TVs, we’ve only made baby steps so far. This is for various reasons: the advance of …
Ever ask Siri a question and she’s unable to answer it correctly? Ever ask Cortana a question and she’s baffled or confused? Ironically, artificial intelligence isn’t quite smart enough to do everything humans want them to do. But Doug Lenat believes he has the answer to this problem with a thirty year old artificial-intelligence engine …
Virtual reality has a bad rep. Generally VR’s critics maintain that it will lead to either complete isolation and detachment from the world or some kind of odd hedonistic, surreal or fetishist exploration. In the middle are all the people who see VR as a bunch of fun, immersive experiences, but ones that rely on …
We recently talked about virtual reality with the way we do business, and virtual reality in general has been the talk of the proverbial digital town with the upcoming release of Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR and other VR devices. But one thing that’s been getting ignored is augmented reality, the current and more ubiquitous form …