Category: Technology
Elon Musk thinks Uber’s flying car idea is dumb
If you’re hoping Tesla would help lead the future for flying cars, don’t hold your breath. During his interview at the TED 2017 Conference in Vancouver, Tesla CEO Elon Musk knocked the idea completely, telling interviewer Chris Anderson that he’s “in favour of flying things” but not so much of the car variety, Inverse reported. […]
Tumblr just added a switch in the iOS Settings that lets you turn the porn back on
Here’s an interesting change: Tumblr’s iOS application just received an update which now lets you turn on or off adult-oriented, NSFW search results just by toggling a switch in iOS’s Settings. That’s right: you can now switch on or off the Tumblr porn with ease. Weirder still, Tumblr’s note about the change in the App […]
How to make Twitter profitable
Bruce JudsonContributor Bruce Judson is a bestselling author of books on business and public policy strategy in the evolving digital era. He is a senior IoT adviser at Tern PLC. For better and sometimes worse, Twitter is one of the most powerful forces onthe planet. Twitter has arguably played a critical role in at least […]
Rockstar is not happy about driverless cars learning from ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ without permission
Driverless cars that work are cool, but using another company’s work without their permission maybe isn’t. Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that manufacturers of driverless cars were using video game environments as a testing ground to help teach their cars how to drive themselves. One video game in particular became the go-to for the impressive […]
The robot debate is over: the jobs are gone and they aren’t coming back
New report shows automation is already causing losses, depressing wages and likely to have lasting, devastating effect. In 2013, the Oxford Martin School released a report that looked at the automation of work, assessing the likelihood that robots and other technologies would replace humans. It concluded that of the 702 job categories examined, 47% were […]