Tag: Tech

This First Transgender Doll Aims to Educate Kids About Gender Identity

To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...

This New Digital Urn Makes us Approach Death in a Radically Different Way

The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
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Heartbleed Attacks My Cloud As Programmers Scramble For A Solution

Alright, not to freak you out too much, but that convenient little box by Western Digital called My Cloud that allows you store and...

3 Virtual Reality Technologies To Compete With Oculus Rift

By now you've probably heard the news that Facebook bought virtual reality headset Oculus Rift for a cool $2 billion. It came as quite...

Are restaurant subscription services the new streaming wars?

We may soon be signing up for fast food subscriptions they way we do for our movies and TV.

Get Ready for a Wild Ride on the World’s First Virtual Reality Water Slide

Waterslides never fail to deliver wet and wild thrills and a game of laser tag can be a really fun way to find out...

The 10 Breakthrough Technologies That Will Make 2018

Technology is changing at a breakneck speed and growing more sophisticated every year. Since 2001, the MIT Technology Review has released an annual list...

Researchers Accidentally Invent Glass That Repairs Itself When Broken

Sounds like magic? Chemists in Japan have just invented a new type of glass that can heal itself when cracked or broken. All it...

Apple Admits to Slowing Down Older iPhones and Explains Why

Apple has long been accused of intentionally slowing down iPhones for the sole purpose of coercing consumers into purchasing their latest products. Just when we...

Magic Leap’s Mixed Reality Glasses Are Here, and They’re a Game Changer

Imagine fighting off a horde of invading space aliens in your bedroom, or checking out a new pair of shoes floating above your coffee...

In Unlikely Partnership, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana Are Joining Forces

We're not far off from the day when Amazon's Alexa voice assistant orders around Microsoft’s Cortana, and vice versa. Two of the tech industry's biggest...