Facebook prepares next big move
AFTER accusations that Facebook is damaging academia, Mark Zuckerberg has gone on a new hiring spree nabbing top robotics researchers.
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Google tool can predict when you’ll die
WHEN a sick woman went into hospital doctor’s gave her a 90.7 per cent chance of surviving her visit. Google was less optimistic.
This is the real future of Aussie jobs
WHETHER in a kitchen, on a movie set or on the production floor of a factory, our workplaces are beginning to look very different.
We should welcome our robot overlords
WHETHER working in a kitchen, on a movie set or on the production floor of a factory, these robots could actually help save your job.
Google’s ‘horrifying’ experiment
THE tech giant has been skewered over the “deliberate deception” of its latest product with critics claiming it proves Silicon Valley is ethically lost.
Backlash over Google’s ‘horrifying’ experiment
THE tech giant has been skewered over the “deliberate deception” of its latest product with critics claiming it proves Silicon Valley is ethically lost.
Australia’s ‘skinniest house’ is a bargain
AN AUSSIE family has turned a $250,000, driveway-width plot of land that nobody wanted into a dream three-bedroom home.
China scrambles to cover big weakness
CHINA has long been concerned about its reliance on imported chips from global names such as Qualcomm and Intel and its scrambling to fix it.
The hidden nasties in our cities
YOU may not have noticed but our cities are littered with ingenious, unsettling structures designed to prevent “undesirables”.
Quickest way to $0 power bills
A GERMAN firm is starting a huge push into the Aussie market — and this Sydney family is proof of the potential savings to be had.
Awkward problem with US fighter jets
THE United States has two of the most potent and expensive stealth fighter jets in the world, but there’s an embarrassing flaw with them.
Big problem Elon Musk is tackling next
BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk just can’t help sharing his harebrained ideas with the world — but maybe it’s not as crazy as it sounds.
Shocking new footage of bridge collapse
HEART-STOPPING dash cam footage has emerged of last week’s Miami bridge collapse, showing the deadly incident from the point of view of the drivers.
Big problem with our stations
A RANKING of the world’s best rail hubs has Grand Central at the top and Sydney Central at the bottom. There’s a big reason why Australia scores so low.
Why this house only costs $12,000
IT SOUNDS like it’s too good to be true but a new type of housing design could be the key to a mortgage free life.
$4bn ‘bungle’: Massive train fail
DAYS after it was discovered NSW’s new trains were too big for the tunnels, turns out Queensland’s new trains are kind of illegal.
Amazon boss’ $50m mountain project
WHEN you have all the money in the world you can do some wacky and wonderful things, but even Jeff Bezos admits this is a little different.
Huge flaw with Apple’s $6.3b HQ
APPLE’S futuristic ring-shaped headquarters are the fifth-most expensive building in the world, but all that money could not fix one major design flaw.
‘Embarrassing’ flaw in China’s new jet
THE superpower wants to show off its strength and growing capability in air combat but its long awaited J-20 stealth fighter has failed some important tests.
Spain cracks 500-year-old secret code
MADE up of more than 200 codes and 88 symbols, the secret letters between a famous Spanish king and his general confused historians for centuries.
What you missed in Starbucks logo
MOST of us see the Starbucks logo every single day, but chances are you might have never noticed the secret hiding in plain sight.
Inside an ultra-luxe club for tech elites
A SECRET club frequented by San Francisco’s tech elite has dropped its strict no-photos-allowed policy to give a rare glimpse of what goes on behind its doors.
‘Best thing the state has done in years’
MILLIONS of people descended this CBD station’s escalators over eight decades. Now they’ve been reborn in the most unexpected way.
Six crazy buildings that never were
THE Sydney Opera House might be ‘out there’ in design, but it pales in comparison with a dome over half of Manhattan.
China seeks ultimate weapon of warfare
A REPORT on China’s pursuit of artificial intelligence technologies claims the country is less constrained by legal and ethical concerns.
Bill Gates invests $104m in ‘smart city’
CO-FOUNDER of Microsoft Bill Gates wants to develop a “smart city” and has just dropped $104 million on a plot of land to do so.
Teen CEO solves our biggest gripe
RYLAN, 16, is earning more in one day than he earned in three months working at a cafe. And it’s all thanks to a simple idea.
Crazy reason this woman looks familiar
THIS woman looks familiar but she is the product of a freakish new technology that is set to change how we see the world.
Inside Barcelona sex doll brothel
THIS Barcelona brothel replaced sex workers with dolls so clients could act out their weirdest fantasies but it has faced swift backlash.
Our future houses are going to be so cool
FUTURISTIC houses are almost here with toilets that conduct medical tests, “smart mirrors” that virtually dress people and much more “around the corner”.
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