Photo: cibo_winebar on Instagram Toronto foodies can officially mark their calendars (and prepare their stomachs) for yet another year of Winterlicious, the city’s twice yearly culinary celebration of affordable local dining. From January 26 to February 8, Winterlicious returns to town for another two weeks, and encourages community members to indulge in …
Read More »Google Hired Photographers To Help Train the AI-Powered ‘Clips’ Camera
All the cameras in your life thus far have been entirely under your control — you get to decide what they film and for how long. Google’s upcoming Clips camera is different. It uses machine learning to decide what’s important, then processes or discards the footage accordingly. Google unveiled this …
Read More »8K Displays Could Be Ready This Year, but Content Could Take Until 2025
With 4K TVs now boringly mass-market, it was inevitable vendors at CES would begin casting about for the Next Big Thing. For now, until some other tech advance presents itself, TV manufacturers have settled on 8K. And with 8K sets launching in 2018, that resolution will be available (technically) later …
Read More »Elon Musk’s flamethrower has already made well over $3.5 million
Hats… and now flamethrowers. Elon Musk’s Boring Company has so far been more of a ‘lifestyle’ brand (and a weird one at that) than a company that, you know, digs massive tunnels through the earth as a going concern. But it’s making bank. The hats, which retailed for $20, were …
Read More »Nvidia and GE’s Baker Hughes team on AI for oil and gas
Nvidia and GE subsidiary Baker Hughes want to bring the power of artificial intelligence to bear on the oil and gas industry – and do so throughout the space, covering everything from locating new oil sources, bringing it up to the surface, refining it for use and even delivering it …
Read More »Boeing HorizonX invests in Berkeley aerospace battery tech startup
Boeing’s HorizonX is the aerospace company’s vehicle for making investments in promising next-generation startups and technology, and it just placed its latest bet: funding in Cuberg, a Berkeley-based battery tech startup that has a founding team including Stanford University researchers. Battery tech is still one of the most frustrating roadblocks …
Read More »NFL players dish on league’s biggest issues
Do you feel NFL owners respect or disrespect players? Of the 95 players who answered the question on the league’s most important issue, 39% said health and safety, including CTE, while 18% said compensation, including guaranteed contracts, and 18% said social issues, including protests during the national anthem. Of the …
Read More »Cambrian Period Worm Had Hair-Sized Bristles on Its Head and Body
A new species of bristle worm that lived about 508 million years ago (Cambrian period) has been identified from fossils found in Marble Canyon and Burgess Shale sites, both in British Columbia, Canada. Kootenayscolex barbarensis. Image credit: Danielle Dufault / Royal Ontario Museum. Dubbed Kootenayscolex barbarensis, the ancient worm was …
Read More »18 Delicious Super Bowl Snacks That Are Secretly Healthy
Super Bowl Sunday comes in second place, only to Thanksgiving, as the biggest eating day of the year in the United States. Americans consume an estimated 64 million pounds of fat during the big game thanks to processed chips and frozen apps that teem with calories. Even if you nosh on homemade …
Read More »Celtics were supposed to be the backup plan
It’s rare that regular-season games live up to the hype, but the nationally televised prime time matchup between the Warriors and Celtics did exactly that on Saturday. The game had everything: A brilliant duel between Steph Curry (49 points) and Kyrie Irving (37 points), the defensive intensity of the postseason, …
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