Look into my Orb
This post comes from my newsletter, Startup Strategies. Startups, at their core, are hypothesis testing machines. You have an idea—Fitbit for dogs—and you build a prototype. It flops and you…
New material looks like Chex, is stronger than Kevlar
An insanely strong new nanomaterial could replace steel and Kevlar in surface coatings. The material, created by researchers at MIT, Caltech, and ETH Zürich, is nano architected which means it…
This robot uses spider joints to wiggle around
As if robots weren't weird enough, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and at the University of Boulder in Colorado have created a jointed robot that has…
Archeologists train an AI to compare pottery shards
Piecing together history from shards is hard. Now robots can make it easier. Archaeologists at Northern Arizona University are using Machine Learning to separate different pottery shards from each other,…
Watch these wild self-assembling blocks move by themselves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI5UDKaWJOo We first saw these little blocks a few years ago but the 2.0 version, called M-Blocks 2.0, are a sigh to behold. Created by CSAIL at MIT, the blocks…
Watch NASA’s all-woman spacewalk LIVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg NASA is streaming the first all-woman spacewalk on YouTube. The big walk has already happened - you can scroll back and see the Earth in all its global glory…
What if you could control VR objects with your own bare hands
Augmented reality is nothing really new, although it isn't widespread yet. Think of it as using a camera on a phone to capture the real world, and using the screen…
MIT researchers make a material that can be none more black
Move over, vantablack. MIT researchers have accidentally created a material that captures more than 99.995 percent of light. It's made of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes that were originally to be…
Study: Fake news leads to false memories
New research in Psychological Science has found that votes create "false memories after seeing fabricated news stories, especially if those stories align with their political beliefs." "In highly emotional, partisan…
New tool helps the blind browse the web
A new study led by University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics student, Alexandra Vtyurina, who collaborated with Microsoft researchers has created a way to merge a voice assistant with a…