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NASA head warns: Expect a major asteroid impact in your lifetime

Apr30
by on April 30, 2019 at 12:09 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Space


NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine thinks it’s time to start taking the threat of an Earth-altering asteroid impact seriously. In a speech today at the International Academy of Astronautics Planetary Defense Conference, Bridenstine opened his keynote with a warning about what’s to come. “We have to make sure that people understand that this is not about Hollywood, it’s not about movies,” he said. “This is about ultimately protecting the only planet we know, right now, to host life and that is the planet Earth.” Bridenstine acknowledged that a large asteroid colliding with Earth is met with a sort of “giggle factor,”…

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This may be our first good look at the new Motorola Razr

Apr29
by on April 29, 2019 at 10:55 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Plugged


Motorola’s Razr devices were probably the most iconic phones on the market until the iPhone landed in 2007. The phones that really kicked off the thin phone craze, the Razr line defied our expectations of how compact and sleek a smartphone could be. And now it seems poised to make a comeback. We first heard rumblings about it back in January, and now a new leak courtesy of SlashLeaks (from a since-deleted Weibo post) seems to show the device in its official-render glory, along with a mysterious device triangular-prism looking box thing. Perhaps the device’s packaging? Unlike the other folding phones…

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IBM’s Call For Code hackathon takes aim at California’s wildfire problem

Apr29
by on April 29, 2019 at 10:20 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, artificial intelligence


IBM and 42 Silicon Valley are hosting a hackathon in early May to come up with solutions to California’s wildfire problem. The company hopes to get developers, engineers, designers, and emergency-responders together to brainstorm solutions as part of its annual Call For Code challenge. The Call For Code Global Initiative, founded by IBM and David Clark Cause, is an annual challenge inciting technologists to use cutting-edge technologies to deal with natural disasters. Now in its second year, it asks for STEM-minded people around the world to participate in driving solutions to problems associated with natural disasters. Which brings us to…

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Mobile VR game gathers ‘1,700 years’ worth of Alzheimer’s research data

Apr29
by on April 29, 2019 at 9:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, gaming


A virtual reality game and its app predecessor, intended to help detect early signs of Alzheimer’s, have accrued over 1,700 years’ worth of data in the two years it’s been on the market, according to its developers, thanks to its millions of players. Sea Hero Quest was made by game studio Glitchers and Deutsche Telekom in partnership with University College London, the University of East Anglia, and Alzheimer’s Research UK. The game was designed to help early detection of Alzheimer’s in otherwise healthy individuals, and the VR version debuted on the market in 2017 — according to Glitchers, VR allows for…

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