Artificial intelligence moved from research laboratories into everyday life. Machines learned to generate convincing images, write software, interpret language, produce video, and increasingly interact with the physical world. Robots are leaving carefully controlled factory environments and moving toward warehouses, hospitals,…
As more and more data centers are starting to pop up, people are reporting that the earth is resembling a motherboard from above. Our modern cities have always been square, with energy running in grids, but it is becoming more…
Released in 2006, Wristcutters: A Love Story is an independent dark comedy based on Etgar Keret’s novella Kneller’s Happy Campers. The film follows Zia, a young man who takes his own life after a painful breakup and finds himself in a strange afterlife…
One of the earliest things every human receives is a name. The second is a number. Within days of being born, most of us are assigned government identification numbers. Birth certificates, medical records, student IDs, driver’s license numbers, passports, employee…
Facebook ruined the Metaverse. In 2021, Facebook made one of the boldest corporate pivots in modern technology. The company changed its name to Meta, invested billions of dollars into virtual reality, and declared that the future of the internet would be…
On November 7, 2020, Rudy Giuliani stood in the parking lot of Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia to hold one of the most important press conferences of the presidential election. Whether the location was the result of a misunderstanding, a last-minute…