Abby Goldsmith’s science fiction novel Majority tells the story of a group of young people from Earth who get abducted by the Torth, a galaxy-spanning civilization ruled by merciless telepaths. “There’s a galactic empire, and these people are all neurally, superluminally connected,” Goldsmith says in Episode 550 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know The latest in a long line of fun things emerging that Bing Chat has done is to imagine itself as a human girl. It then used the built-in Bing Image Creator to sketch what she imagines she’d look like. This ties into a previous codename, Sydney, Microsoft has used for […]
Read MoreFriday September 9, 2022 8:37 am PDT by Sami Fathi A new concept has imagined what it could be like if Apple brought the Dynamic Island from the iPhone 14 Pro to the iPad, utilizing the company’s new user interface design and hardware and software integration approach to provide iPad-specific controls and functionality. The concept […]
Read MoreAdam-Troy Castro’s story “Arvies,” first published in the August 2010 issue of Lightspeed magazine, imagines a society that believes only fetuses have souls. One consequence of this is that it’s normal for people to use advanced technology to never leave the womb. “There are two kinds of people in that story—fetuses and the ‘arvies,’ which […]
Read MoreA new patent has been published by the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office) that was filed by Apple back In August 2020. The patent is for an Apple keyboard device that is essentially a portable Mac computer. The patent explains this is a “computer in an input device”, that’s essentially a Mac mini […]
Read MoreApple is exploring the possibility of integrating a fully functioning Mac within a keyboard, reminiscent of home computers of the 80s, such as the Commodore 64 and Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The concept was revealed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in a new Apple patent application called “Computer in an input device,” which describes […]
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