Technology

For people with visual impairments, a simple trip to the store can become a significant ordeal. Even in familiar areas, things change, and the traditional tool – a white cane – has its limitations. Now, a new development in canes may change the way people with blindness move through the world. https://www.instagram.com/p/BlEi4lNFJZa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link It’s called the...

Nothing brings people together like a musical performance. Singing along with a few thousand of your best friends to a great song makes for a positive outlook and other warm, fuzzy emotions that carry over to the next day and beyond. We’ve all been there. Research validates those good vibrations. Psychologists, Melissa K. Weinberg and...

Deepfakes are part of the latest and creepiest wave of new technology. Though they don’t seem to be especially helpful to anyone, deepfakes nonetheless look like they’ll be around for awhile. Now, it’s easier than ever to produce your own deepfake (yay) with an app called Zao, created by Chinese developer MoMo. According to Insider,...

There’s no easy way to say this, so let’s just dive right in: a large underwater observatory has mysteriously gone missing. It was on the seafloor, and now it’s not. Nobody knows why. The Boknis Eck Observatory has been on the seafloor off the northern coast of Germany since December 2016. It’s managed by GEOMAR...

If you’ve spent any time house hunting, you know it’s very difficult to find what you’re looking for and not pay a fortune for it. In backlash, the tiny house has arisen. The tiny house craze doesn’t seem to be letting up any time soon, and now there’s a new addition to the market that...

After a rash of mysterious respiratory illnesses that seem to be linked to vaping, health officials in Illinois are ready to say the e-cigarettes are the cause of death in at least one case. The Department of Public Health Director Ngozi Ezike issued a statement: “The severity of illness people are experiencing is alarming and...

Steve Jobs was truly one-of-kind. The co-founder of Apple was a visionary who helped change the way we work, play, and live. And Jobs made some predictions in the 1980s and 1990s that may have seemed far-fetched at the time, but it turns out he absolutely nailed it. Here are some examples of the foresight...

Okay, let’s cut the chit chat and the small talk. I’m here with 10 facts that you absolutely NEED in your life right now. They’re so good, in fact, that I have a feeling you’re going to jump for joy. So go ahead and do it! …After you enjoy these facts. 1. Been there, done...