Teaching STEM through the wonders of larva harvesting

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Teaching STEM through the wonders of larva harvestingThere’s hardly enough room to turn around in Livin Farms’ office. Pretty standard, really, in Central, Hong Kong, where space is at a perpetual premium. It’s a small operation for the HAX-backed startup — there’s space for a few desks and not much more. The startup’s last product, […]

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With no moving parts, this plane flies on the ionic wind

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With no moving parts, this plane flies on the ionic windSince planes were invented, they’ve flown using moving parts to push air around. Sure, there are gliders and dirigibles, which float more than fly, but powered flight is all about propellers (that’s why they call them that). Today that changes, with the first-ever “solid state” […]

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They’re making a real HAL 9000, and it’s called CASE

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They’re making a real HAL 9000, and it’s called CASEDon’t panic! Life imitates art, to be sure, but hopefully the researchers in charge of the Cognitive Architecture for Space Exploration, or CASE, have taken the right lessons from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and their AI won’t kill us all and/or expose us to alien artifacts […]

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LinkedIn cuts off email address exports with new privacy setting

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LinkedIn cuts off email address exports with new privacy settingA win for privacy on LinkedIn could be a big loss for businesses, recruiters and anyone else expecting to be able to export the email addresses of their connections. LinkedIn just quietly introduced a new privacy setting that defaults to blocking other users from exporting your […]

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Facebook is still facing ‘intermittent’ outages for advertisers ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday

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Facebook is still facing ‘intermittent’ outages for advertisers ahead of Black Friday and Cyber MondayOne day after experiencing a massive outage across its ad network, Facebook, one of the most important online advertising platforms, is still seeing “intermittent” issues for its ad products at one of the most critical times of the year for advertisers. […]

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Driven to safety — it’s time to pool our data

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Driven to safety — it’s time to pool our data Kevin Guo Contributor Kevin Guo is the CEO and co-founder of Hive. For most Americans, the thought of cars autonomously navigating our streets still feels like a science fiction story. Despite the billions of dollars invested into the industry in recent years, no self-driving car company has proven […]

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