20 Awesome Indie Games You Should Play on Nintendo Switch
So you finally got a Nintendo Switch. Congratulations! You might feel like you’re five years late to the game, but actually, you’re lucky: You’ve got a half decade’s worth of…
AI Will Make Human Art More Valuable
The advent of AI models will only accelerate this trend. We will place ever more value on works that seem made for their own sake, rather than ours. That’s bad…
2023 Word Consumer Rights Day: Theme, History, And Significance
New Delhi: World Consumer Rights Day is observed on March 15, every year, to create global awareness about the rights and needs of consumers. The day aims to recognise consumer…
On Asphyxiation From Trains and Other Inaccurate Predictions
This is the computer Watson was talking about when he said the following: “I would like to tell you that the machine rents for between $12,000 and $18,000 a month,…
Wait, What? Archaeologists Find Well-Preserved 500-Year-Old Spices
Let’s agree, we all have a special masala dabba in our kitchen. After all, spices not only amp up the taste of food and introduce more flavours to a particular…
The ChatGPT Reincarnation of the Marquis de Sade Is Coming
The first time I learned about “Loab,” it sent shivers down my spine. A strange dead-eyed ghoul that began haunting an AI image generator last year, Loab reminded me of…
How to Live on the Precipice of Tomorrow
We are being pitched futures all the time. Every advertisement, every political campaign, every quarterly budget is a promise or a threat about what tomorrow could look like. And it…
AI or No, It’s Always Too Soon to Sound the Death Knell of Art
There’s a hilarious illustration from Paris in late 1839, mere months after an early type of photograph called a daguerreotype was announced to the world, that warned what this tiny…
First Text Message Marks 30 Years On December 3
Originally, an SMS could only be text with a maximum length of 160 characters.December 3 is an important day in the world of technology because on this day 30 years…
Travel Back in Time With Street View and Map Archives
The tools and tech used to map our world are improving all the time, and we take it for granted that we can see any part of the globe in…