Tesla’s sales seem to have rebounded from a seriously weak April, showing surprisingly strong revenues in the month of May. With the values of Bitcoin slipping even further, that wild ride is leading some to suspect the electric car company may have sold off some of its considerable Bitcoin holdings. According to Bloomberg columnist Liam Denning,… Continue reading Tesla Accused of Secretly Selling Part of Bitcoin Hoard
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Become A Video Star With Camtasia 2021
Online video drives the world in weird and wonderful ways — making a nine-year-old a millionaire, turning playing video games into a day job, and making video a crucial marketing channel for anyone — whether you’re building your personal brand or promoting the company you work for. Camtasia makes it easy to create effective video for… Continue reading Become A Video Star With Camtasia 2021
Graphene Hard Drives Store Ten Times as Much Data
Just slap some graphene on that bad boy and watch it work. Graphene Drives A team of scientists led by the University of Cambridge has developed a new ultra-high density hard drive that they say has ten times the data storage of other leading drives — thanks to an ultra-thin coating of graphene. Graphene, which… Continue reading Graphene Hard Drives Store Ten Times as Much Data
New York Times Publishes Then Deletes Article Claiming Watermelons Were Found on Mars
The New York Times is having a strange day. This afternoon, the prominent newspaper published an article making a surprising claim about exobiology: that watermelons had been discovered on Mars. “Authorities say rise of fruit aliens is to blame for glut of outer space watermelons,” read the story, which was deleted less than an hour… Continue reading New York Times Publishes Then Deletes Article Claiming Watermelons Were Found on Mars
Richard Branson Is Reportedly Racing to Go to Space Before Jeff Bezos
It’s a race to (close to) the edge of space. Space Virgin Rumors are spreading that Virgin Galactic CEO Richard Branson will attempt to beat rival and Blue Origins CEO Jeff Bezos to space this summer. According to Parabolic Arc, which cited an anonymous source, the billionaire is looking to fly to the edge of space… Continue reading Richard Branson Is Reportedly Racing to Go to Space Before Jeff Bezos
Engineers Build Drones That Hunt Screaming Humans
Don’t worry, it’s for a good reason. Peekaboo! A team of German engineers is hard at work building a particularly terrifying drone technology — but, they say, for an extremely good reason. For years, drone developers have argued that one of their best use cases is to quickly and easily navigate or monitor areas that are… Continue reading Engineers Build Drones That Hunt Screaming Humans
The Price of Ubers and Airbnbs Is About to Get Jacked Up
Companies now dare to ask a bold question: “What if we actually made money?” Bubble: Burst Unfortunately for everyone who got used to booking suspiciously-cheap rides across town or taking affordable vacations while living in a stranger’s home, companies like Airbnb and Uber are emerging from the pandemic much more expensive than they were before.… Continue reading The Price of Ubers and Airbnbs Is About to Get Jacked Up
Only One Third of US Adults Would Take an Immortality Pill
A new survey of roughly 900 American adults says that actually no, people don’t want to live forever. When asked whether they’d like to take a pill that would allow them to live forever at their current age, only about 33 percent of survey respondents said yes, according to research published in the Journal of… Continue reading Only One Third of US Adults Would Take an Immortality Pill
Donald Trump Says Bitcoin Is a “Scam”
Maybe it takes one to know one. Former president Donald Trump told Fox Business today that Bitcoin “seems like a scam” and that it only serves to undermine the US dollar. “The currency of this world should be the dollar,” Trump said. “And I don’t think we should have all of the Bitcoins of the… Continue reading Donald Trump Says Bitcoin Is a “Scam”
Brain-Reading Machine Detects Who You Have a Crush On
AI Matchmaker A new brain-computer interface system, trained to pick up on the neural activity of your brain when it sees a new person’s face, is sophisticated enough to predict who you will and won’t be attracted to. And by matching your neural patterns to existing data of other participants who already ran the gauntlet… Continue reading Brain-Reading Machine Detects Who You Have a Crush On