by crissly | Oct 15, 2018 | Science
At the WIRED25 festival in San Francisco Sunday evening, Boston Dynamics’ SpotMini robot got onstage and did what no other quadruped robot has done before: It danced the running man like it was born to. It was a bit more, well, robotic than a human, but it illustrated...
by crissly | Oct 14, 2018 | Culture
How to best describe the past seven days? First, there was a royal wedding, but no one even noticed because an overzealous mother turned her son into a meme. Then, folks began to wonder whether Melania Trump understands bullying at all. Also, the United States’...
by crissly | Oct 12, 2018 | Business
In recent years, the Saudi Arabian monarchy has poured billions of dollars into Silicon Valley, promoting the image of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a savvy reformer, eager to modernize the country. But after recent allegations that Saudi agents killed...
by crissly | Oct 12, 2018 | Ideas
Yesterday Facebook took down 559 domestic political pages and 251 accounts for violating its terms of service on coordinated inauthentic behavior—“networks of accounts or Pages working to mislead others about who they are, and what they are doing.” While Facebook has...
by crissly | Oct 12, 2018 | Ideas
In early October, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new antibiotic: Nuzyra, generic name omadacycline. Omadacycline is a tweaked version of a tetracycline, a class of drugs that have been around since the very beginning of the antibiotic era; it works...
