Technology

Why You Should Never Argue With Anyone on Facebook
17:30 2017-12-08

Let’s be honest—most of us are guilty of committing a Facebook faux pas or two. The worst offense? Netiquette experts are warning us away from the keyboard when it comes to hot-button topics, in particular. Turns out, it’s not just a sign you’re sharing way too much on Facebook; research says you might respond differently …

Scientists find ‘behemoth’ black hole so big it could challenge our understanding of the universe’s beginning
01:06 2017-12-08

Scientists just found a very huge, very young supermassive black hole. As far as we know, it shouldn’t be able to exist, and it just might re-write our understanding of the early universe. It is the most distant black hole ever seen by scientists. And it is so far away that we are seeing something …

A ‘scaled-up version of Earth’ with a gassy atmosphere that could host alien life is discovered 111 light years away
20:07 2017-12-06

A little-known planet beyond the solar system could be a scaled-up version of Earth, according to new research. Experts found that the distant exoplanet, known as K2-18b, is likely a ‘super Earth’ made up of rock, just like our own planet. K2-18b orbits within its star’s habitable zone, making it an ideal candidate to hold …

Supersonic plane that could fly from London to New York in just over 3 hours gets a $10 million boost from Japan Airlines
19:34 2017-12-06

Flight times from London to New York could be slashed to just 3 hours 15 minutes by 2025, thanks to a $10 million (£7.45 million) investment from Japan Airlines. Boom Supersonic is developing a 55-seat passenger plane that it says will halve flight times and will be faster, quieter and more affordable to fly than …

Elon Musk Is Right, Artificial Intelligence is Growing Like Crazy
17:33 2017-11-30

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is renowned for making dire predictions about how artificial intelligence will be a threat to humankind. While it’s not yet self-evolving to the point of being an imminent danger, in 2017 AI did grow like crazy. At least that’s the topic several CEOs wanted to mention when asked what …