Intel is ready to unleash its super fast secret weapon

Intel is ready to unleash Optane. If you’ve ever waited for a webpage to load, took a lap around the office while your computer rendered 4K video or watched in dismay as your favorite video game stuttered to life, you know that computers are struggling to keep up with all the data. Intel isn’t down […]

‘Future of Sex’ podcast tackles the frontiers of sex and technology

Bryony Cole wants women to build the sex tech future they want. Image: Shutterstock / WhiteHaven We built the internet, we got online porn. We invented haptic engines that can automatically convey a remote sense of touch, we got teledildonics. Technological advances and the shifting of sexual boundaries are intertwined, and this is the world […]

The only way to prove you aren’t a robot is to solve this chess puzzle

Check it out, Mate! Image: James Tagg Check out the chess board above: looks wrong, right? If you’ve ever played chess, you know something’s amiss, here. For one thing, someone chose to exchange a pawn for another bishop instead of a queen. For another, virtually all the action’s moved to the left side of a […]

Faster and stronger lithium-ion batteries might be in our future

This, clearly, isn’t the battery the MIT team is working on. Image: Shutterstock / sdecoret The lithium-ion battery in your phone might look like a solid chunk of energy-producing plastic at first glance, but if you were to bust it open and take a closer look, you’d see there’s also some liquid inside. That’s because […]

Facebook created a horrific dancing monster made of reactions

In a horrific experiment for its 13th birthday, Facebook gave Reactions a hideous humanoid form. Image: Facebook While International Friendship Day was popularized by greeting card companies, Facebook went a step forward and coined its own birthday, Feb. 4 as Friends Day a few years ago. Facebook, which has finally turned old enough to be […]